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Our favorite Austen addict Laurie Viera Rigler has gone all Hollywood on us. The popular author of the best selling Austen inspired novels Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict has created a web comedy series for Bablegum.com called Sex and the Austen Girl based on her two century swapping heroines... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Jane Austen inspired books are heading our way in May, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.  Editor’s note: This month’s selections are comprised of re-issued, re-titled and re-written selections. Shocking! Has the economic recession finally hit Austen bookland?  Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations,... Continue Reading →
Please welcome author and admitted Jane Austen addict Laurie Viera Rigler who joins us today to chat about one of her favorite obsessions, P&P 95 and the paperback release of her book, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. Â (Don't ya just luv the cover?) How many of us will resist buying the newly remastered... Continue Reading →
"All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it." Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 April 19-25, 2010 Hot News of the Week: Austenesque author Laurie Viera Rigler's addiction to Jane Austen has inspired two best selling books: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings... Continue Reading →
Hot off the presses is the May/June 2010 (No 45) edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World, the official magazine of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England and the ultimate Austen reading indulgence. Spotlighted in this issue is Bright Star, the 2009 movie based on the relationship of John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Here are the featured articles: ... Continue Reading →
Update: Thanks to the excellent Margaret and Crystal at the DWG (The Derbyshire Writers Guild who are also hosted  by Austen.com) for their immediate actions in contacting the domain host and convincing him to comply with my requests.  I know of this through their correspondence and not from the domain host who has not deigned to contact me... Continue Reading →
“All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it.” Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31 April 12th - 18th, 2010 Hot News of the Week: New author Jenni James of Northanger Alibi, a modern retelling of Northanger Abbey influenced by Twilight, lands the Austenesque book publicity coup... Continue Reading →
Guest blog by Helen Wilkinson of P&P Tours Longbourn – the private house found by the BBC for the ultimate adaptation of Pride & Prejudice in 1995 – has become one of the most famous houses in the world. BBC location manager Sam Breckman knew he had to find a house that could withstand a... Continue Reading →
Please welcome author Monica Fairview as she stops by to chat with us during her blog tour in celebration of the release of her new novel The Darcy Cousins, a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Thank you for having me here on your blog, Laurel Ann. It’s one of my favorite places to... Continue Reading →
Jennie at The Bennet Sisters blog has started a meme that I could not resist. She asks which are your top ten favorite Pride and Prejudice covers? Lord knows there are hundreds of them out there. A search on Google images, Advanced Book Exchange, Good Reads and Barnes & Noble produced a plethora of selections.... Continue Reading →
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in April, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.  Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) Writing Jane Austen: A Novel, by Elizabeth Aston After five popular Pride and Prejudice sequels set in... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress: Call Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Mr. and Mrs. Darcy. A literary mystery is a foot in Lyme Regis. Jane Austen’s head is missing! Adrianne Maslen reports in the Bridport News that a stone bust representing the famous author which was the centerpiece of the Jane Austen Garden... Continue Reading →
