Ah, Miss Bingley. A character we all love to hate at times. We’ve all seen stories where Miss Bingley has tried to compromise Mr. Darcy to get what she wants—I’ve used the device as a plot point several times myself. On one occasion, in a novel co-authored with Lelia Eye, we actually had her succeed… Read the full blog post …
Author Archives: Jann Rowland
The Grand Tour
Today I thought I would talk about the Grand Tour, a rite of passage for many young men and women of a certain level of society in the time immediately preceding the events of Pride and Prejudice. You likely already know something of this subject, and there may even be posts on this site discussing… Read the full blog post …
Forced Marriages, by Jann Rowland
The forced marriage scenario. It is a plot device that appears in Jane Austen based fiction quite often. I suspect I am not rehashing much untilled ground here when I speak of this. The forced marriage often occurred when two people were caught in a compromising position, and often the truth did not matter. It… Read the full blog post …
My How Things Change, by Jann Rowland
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw I am often drawn to thoughts of progress, where I am going and where I have come from. From a writing perspective, it came from an idea for a fantasy book, through many stops and starts, and… Read the full blog post …
Hot Off the Presses! by Jann Rowland
This year will mark a sea change in the way I work. Not only am I beginning to ramp up my work on certain fantasy projects, but it may be some time before you see a full length variation from me. As I noted in a previous post, I’ll be submitting new manuscripts to the… Read the full blog post …
A Christmas Program, by Jann Rowland
This is now my sixth(!) Austen Authors Christmas post. As I was thinking about it and going over previous posts to get some ideas, the thought occurred to me that I have not done a Christmas music themed post since my second year. Well now, it is time to correct that particular oversight! But the… Read the full blog post …
A Little About the Season, by Jann Rowland
If you live in Canada, you will know that the poppy is the symbol of Remembrance Day (Veteran’s Day in the States). The poppy is the symbol of remembering the dead who fought to protect us, most particularly in the world wars. The symbol comes from John McRae’s poem In Flanders Fields. As a child,… Read the full blog post …
Time for an Excerpt! by Jann Rowland
I have often observed that some projects are more of a struggle to complete than others, and there is often no rhyme or reason of which is which. I have completed the writing of a novella in less than ten days, and taken more than a month on another. I’ve had full length books almost… Read the full blog post …
Do You Like Audiobooks? by Jann Rowland
Caption reads: “The phonograph at home reading out a novel.” From Daily Graphic (New York), 2 April 1878. Less than a year after the invention of the phonograph, this drawing offered a future vision. Novels however would remain impractical for phonographs until the 1930s. As an author, I subscribe to several author resource sites, and I’ve found… Read the full blog post …
Where Did that Saying Come From? by Jann Rowland
Recently I came across an article with a list of the origins behind common sayings, which sparked my interest in such things. I went and did some further research and came up with a number of such sayings that I thought I would share. This list is (of course) in no way comprehensive, and I’ve… Read the full blog post …
Excerpt for “Among Intimate Acquaintances”, by Jann Rowland
For this month I have a quick excerpt for you. The book is called Among Intimate Acquaintances, and it will be on Amazon on Thursday. The gist of the story is that Darcy never went to Hertfordshire, and thus did not prevent Bingley from returning to Jane. A year later, Bingley and Jane, along with… Read the full blog post …
Announcements!
There are a few announcements I need to make, which will preempt what I had originally planned for this month’s post. So let’s bump that to next month and get on with it! Before we do, however, there is a bit of housekeeping I need to get out of the way. For those who read… Read the full blog post …
Pulvis Lodge, I Presume? by Jann Rowland
“Haye Park might do,” said she, “if the Gouldings could quit it—or the great house at Stoke, if the drawing-room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off! I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for Pulvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful.” —Mrs. Bennet, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 50… Read the full blog post …
