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Jane Austen Made Me Do It contributors Frank Delaney & Diane Meier on NPR | Jane Austen Made Me Do It! Check out the great interview of “Faux Jane” short story authors from Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Frank and Diane on NPR. They chat about their story and our favorite author, Jane Austen [...]

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Here is some gratuitous self-promotion for your Follow Friday fun! An excerpt of my new Jane Austen-inspired anthology, Jane Austen Made Me Do It, is now available on Scribd.com. It includes my full introduction and the first two pages of all twenty-two stories. Such a teaser.;-0 You will have to wait until October 11, 2011 [...]

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88 Austen-inspired stories were narrowed down to the Top Ten finalists last March in the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest. One lucky winner was chosen and announced on the JAMMDI blog yesterday. My congratulations goes out to the talented new voice in Austenesque fiction. To discover who the Grand Prize winner [...]

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Huzzah! After a robust week of Beta testing, I am happy to say that all system are “go” on the new Jane Austen Made Me Do It website! Over the past several months, the Austen elves have been hard at work creating an online home for my new book and its 24 authors. Jane Austen [...]

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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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Home from the bookselling trenches today and eager to share my great find. As I passed by the new release fiction bays at my store – a familiar name just leapt out at me. Margaret Drabble! Any die-hard Janeite will recall her wonderful introductions to the Penguin Classics and Signet Classics editions of Jane Austen’s [...]

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Your votes have been tallied and the top ten short stories have been chosen in the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest. Without further ado… The Top Ten stories listed alphabetically by author are: No 54 – Sophy and the Armada, by K. Ann Adams No 56 – The Love Letter, by [...]

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Make haste. Voting closes today 2/28/11 at 11:59:59 pm ET in the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest. I am really pleased at the incredible turnout. 88 aspiring Austenesque writers submitted stories for your consideration and enjoyment. All of Jane Austen’s major novels, her life and and some of her minor works [...]

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