Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford, a new Jane Austen contemporary vampire novel will be released for sale on 29 December 2009. Vic and I have both chatted about this book before on Jane Austen Today: first when the initial sale was announced in June of 2008, and recently in September when the cover [...]
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Jane Bites Back – An Excerpt
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Austen Paranormal, Jane Austen, Jane Bites Back, Micael Thomas Ford, Vampires on 14 November 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Rises from the Grave
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on 4 November 2009 | 11 Comments »
Quirk Books, the literary monster mash-up mogul who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monster has announced that its third book for Quirk Classics will be Dawn of the Dreadfuls, a prequel to its New York Times bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Here is the publisher’s description:
In [...]
Collector’s Library Re-issues Jane Austen Classics
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Books, Collector's Library, Emma, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility on 2 October 2009 | 6 Comments »
Great news for Jane Austen readers and book collectors. The Collector’s Library, a UK publisher has re-issued their popular and distinctive editions of Jane Austen’s six major novels. These compact 5.9 x 4 inch volumes are beautifully designed for easy handling and include these great features:
Full-cloth hardcover bindings
Ribbon markers
Head and tail bands
Gilt edges
Classic illustrations by Hugh [...]
BBAW Begins: My Favorite Book Blogs to Brag About
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, BBAW, tagged BBAW, Book Blogger Appreciation Week, Bookbath, Historical Fiction blog, Jane Austen's World, Love Passion Romance bog, Write Meg on 14 September 2009 | 5 Comments »
Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009 begins today September 14th and runs through the 18th. It is an annual event set aside in celebration of the online book blogging community and recognition all those hard working book readers/bloggers. You can read my initial announcement for all the details. Here are few blogs that did not make [...]
Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for September
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged A Simple Story, According to Jane, Books, Chamein Canton, Collector's Library Editions, Darcy and Anne, Darcy's Temptation, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hugh Thomson, Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, Judith Brocklehurst, Lord Byron, Lord Byron Selected Poetry, Marilyn Brant, Mona Scheuermann, Murder at Longbourn, My Cousin Caroline, Oxford World's Classics, Reading Jane Austen, Rebecca Collins, Regina Jeffers, Sense and Sensibility (1971), The Pemberley Chronicles, Tracy Kiely, Waiting for Mr. Darcy on 1 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in September, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.
Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)
According To Jane, by Marilyn Brant
Here is a bright new face on the Austen sequel/inspiration market. In this contemporary [...]
Austenprose Nominated for 4 BBAW Awards
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, BBAW, tagged Book Blooger Appreciation Week on 29 August 2009 | 9 Comments »
Nothing like tooting your own horn, *blush*, but Austenprose has been nominated for four Book Blogger Appreciation Week awards. Here are the categories and their descriptions:
Best History/Historical Fiction Blog – This blog features the best reviews and specialized content on books about a time gone by.
Best Specialized Blog – Cookbooks? Baseball history? Books written by people who [...]
A New Haute Couture Pride and Prejudice Cover by Fashion Illustrator Reuben Toledo
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Book covers, Emily Bronte, Fiction, Jane Austen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Penguin Couture Classics, Pride and Prejudice, Rueben Toledo, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights on 27 August 2009 | 7 Comments »
I think that Jane Austen just might approve of this new cover design that fashion illustrator Rueben Toledo has created for her novel Pride and Prejudice. Her fondness for finery is confirmed in her letters to her sister Cassandra as she chats about her shopping expeditions to linen-drapers, silk-mercer’s and milliners in London and Bath, [...]
Announcing – Lady Vernon and her Daughter Book Trailer
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen-esque Books, tagged Book Trailer, Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, Jane Austen, Jane Rubino, Lady Susan, Lady Vernon and Her Daughter on 25 August 2009 | 8 Comments »
Austenprose is very honored to have the privilege of announcing the exclusive premier of the Lady Vernon and her Daughter: A Novel of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan book trailer. This new retelling of Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan was co-written by mother and daughter team Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway and is due out October 6th, 2009. [...]
Book Blogger Appreciation Week Meme: The Jane Austen Version
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, BBAW, tagged Book Blooger Appreciation Week, Jane Auste, Meme on 7 August 2009 | 12 Comments »
“It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.” Miss Bates, Emma, Chapter 21
The Second Annual Book Blogger Appreciation Week September 14-18, 2009 is quickly approaching. It is an online event in celebration and acknowledgement of all the hard working, creative and dedicated book bloggers out there making a [...]
Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for August
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Adam Campan, Amanda Grange, Arabella, Austen Book Slueth, Classic Literature, Georgette Heyer, Helen Lefroy, James Fairfax, Jane Austen, Marsha Altman, Mr. Darcy Vampyre, Old Morality, Penguine Classic Deluxe Edition, Plight of the Darcy Brothers, Pride and Prejudice, Sir Walter Scott, SourceBooks, Waverly novels on 1 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 the story of [...]
James Fairfax: A Gender Bending Alternate Regency Universe Will be the Next Austen Mash-up
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen in the News, tagged Adam Campan, Emma, Fiction, James Fairfax, Jane Austen, Literary Mash-up on 22 July 2009 | 16 Comments »
Gentle Readers: In yet the third announcement in less than a week, another publisher is jumping on the classic literary re-imagining/mash-up band wagon and hitching their star to Austen’s prose. Independent publisher Norilana Books has announced today a new novel entitled James Fairfax, combining Jane Austen’s original text of Emma with new scenes by Adam [...]
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In this Pride and Prejudice spinoff, Caroline Bingley gets center stage. Distraught after the marriage of Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet, Caroline's emotional breakdown is witnessed by Robert Darcy, Mr. Darcy's American cousin. Throw together during a carriage ride to Pemberley, they disagree on everything until Robert's gallant proposal saves her reputation. Can Caroline Bingley evolve past the snooty and snarky "mean girl" presented in Jane Austen's original novel and find love and happiness?
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