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Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising Did you ever wonder about Georgiana Darcy, cooped up in her big mansion waiting for a few letters from her big brother?  Or how about a mushroom trip at the dinner table, with only the snide Caroline Bingley to keep any clear-headed company?  Ever wonder what that [...]

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Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising If there was ever an “About the Author” section that seemed to speak to me, directly to me, it is this one: Marsha Altman exists more as a philosophical concept than an atom-based structure existing within the rules of time and space as we know them.  She [...]

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Update 16 December 2010: 1:00 pm PT Breaking News: Sourcebooks has extended the one day offer through 17 December 2010. Next Thursday, December 16th is Jane Austen’s 235th birthday and Sourcebooks, the world’s leading Jane Austen publisher, is throwing a huge one-day-only birthday book bash. They will be offering ten of their best Austen-inspired novels [...]

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A campy, madcap adventure story, Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape is Marsha Altman’s third book, in her Pride and Prejudice Continues series. The year is 1812, seven years after Elizabeth Bennet and her devoted sister Jane married Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley respectively, and the families are all returning to Longbourn for the wedding of Kitty Bennet, daughter number four. Within the first 100 pages, Elizabeth Darcy finds herself immersed in the intrigues of the Napoleonic War as she races across the continent to the rescue of Mr. Darcy, who has become imprisoned in a medieval cell in Transylvania! Unbelievable? Quite, but hang on . . . there’s more.

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The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in August, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.  Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)  Mr. Darcy, Vampyre, by Amanda Grange  Amanda Grange, the best selling author of Mr. Darcy’s Diary continues [...]

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“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Austen around the blogosphere for the week of September 28th A new stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice opened at The Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada this week. Austenprose was lucky [...]

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Now they had come to it, the moment he dreaded. “We are to marry in nearly two days -” “It has not escaped my notice, I assure you.” “- and I find myself in need of some . . .  advice.”  Mr. Bingley & Mr. Darcy, The Darcys & the Bingleys  And so gentle readers, [...]

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“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 Around the blogosphere for the week of September 1st The first reviews for Jane Odiwe’s Lydia Bennet’s Story are in, and honestly not a suprise! Austen-esque author Marsha Altman is featured at [...]

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