After posting last night, I dug through my old emails to find the new title for From Lambton to Longbourn. The most recent is What Would Mr. Darcy Do?, and it’s scheduled to come out in Spring 2011. In the meantime, I’ve been making some adjustments to it.

From Lambton to Longbourn was my first Austen-related story, and I wrote it for an audience that knew Pride & Prejudice well. As a result, I could get away with starting the story mid-way through the scene at the Lambton Inn with a long quotation from P&P and no explanation whatsoever, and still count on my readers to know where they were and what was happening. It isn’t exactly conducive to convincing someone that they want to read the book! So I’ve gone back and written a new preliminary scene and thought I’d share it with you. Hopefully it provides a better introduction to the book. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m so hopeless! When I read all your wonderful comments, it made me want to give you all copies of my book, so I decided to pull three names out of the hat instead of two. Congratulations, Susan, Evangeline, and Alice for winning autographed copies of The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice. For the rest of you lovely commenters, I have a consolation prize of an unpublished Pemberley Variation short story that I’ll be happy to e-mail to you. I even have a consolation prize for peope who didn’t comment – tomorrow I’m going to post the newly revised and lengthened first chapter of the book formerly known as From Lambton to Longbourn, and I’d tell you what title it’s going to be published under in Spring 2011 except they’ve already changed it three times and I can’t keep up.

I’ll try to get the short stories out tomorrow as well. Susan, Evangeline, and Alice, please email me your addresses and I’ll mail out your copies! There’ll be another giveaway in a couple of months for To Conquer Mr. Darcy. Thanks for taking part!

The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice (the mass market release of Pemberley by the Sea under a new title*) has reached the bookstores! It’s a modern tale based on Pride & Prejudice set in the seaside village of Woods Hole, with a marine biologist as the heroine. It’s been garnering good reviews, including one at Austenesque Reviews. I’m celebrating by raffling off two autographed copies to lucky readers. If you’d like to be entered in the drawing, leave a comment on this post. If you post a link to the contest on your own blog, Facebook, or Twitter, that gives you an additional entry. I’ll draw the names on May 17.

Meantime, I’m going through the galleys for To Conquer Mr. Darcy (formerly Impulse & Initiative), and I’ve set a goal for finishing revisions to the newest Pemberley Variation by the end of May. Stay tuned for excerpts!

*My publisher is on a re-titling binge with Jane Austen-related fiction (mine and many other authors as well). It’s beyond the author’s control, but no writer wants you to buy their book under false pretenses. I strongly suggest checking book descriptions before buying new books to avoid paying money for something you’ve already read.