This is the house where Jane Austen and her family lived for several years. The house was a modest cottage, and I think it must have been the model for the cottage the Dashwoods were exiled to. (Aside: Austen’s portrayal of how the brother disinherits his stepmother and stepsisters is a modern illustration of the [...]
This weekend I will be at Odyssey 2010, also known as Eastercon. If you are going to the con, please stop by and say hi. I will be part of the mass autographing on Saturday at midday. Following that, I will be co-teaching at the writer’s workshop with a very fine bunch of writers from [...]
Remember this? “It is a comforting belief among much of society, that a plain girl with a small fortune must have no more interest in matrimony than matrimony has in her.” That is the opening of my novel, The Unexpected Miss Bennet. You can read the first chapter on my Amazon page (scroll down after [...]
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