Tragedy! In the midst of his latest ode, Augustus Whittlesby has broken his quill. For some strange reason, no one appears willing to lend him another. Will you help a pen-less poet? Your task, should you choose to accept it, is this: write a few lines of verse for Augustus. Your verses can be on [...]

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, there’s an excerpt from my new short story, “A Night at Northanger”, up on Scribd, along with excerpts from the other short stories in the Jane Austen Made Me Do It anthology. “A Night at Northanger” features Cate Kartowsky, a budding young journalist with vast ambitions [...]

I have just discovered that the print versions of both Ivy & Intrigue and Two L are part of Amazon’s four for three deal– buy four eligible items, get the least expensive free. This makes me think fondly of my year in England and the Waterstone’s three-for-two deals. I discovered Forever Amber and Bill Bryson’s [...]

If you like Jane Austen-inspired stories, you’ll probably like… … excerpts from Jane Austen Made Me Do It, now up on Scribd! Among them, you can find the first few pages of my short story, “A Night at Northanger”. I’ll be writing more about that, and how the heroine, Cate, fits into The Garden Intrigue, [...]