Review: As in her “Parish Orphans of Devon” series, Matthews creates a story as rich and imaginative as the tailor’s workroom...

Last year my ‘word’ was ‘breath’. “Instead of knee jerk reactions, take a breath. Before meeting a challenge, take a breath. Every day,...

A time for renewal is just around the corner, and 2021 will pass into the history books. A new year, new resolutions, and the future awaits.

Seasons greetings! Ornaments are my favorite things about dressing the house for the holidays—all the remembrances associated with each.

“Jane & The Year Without a Summer” is Book 14 in Stephanie Barron’s “Being a Jane Austen Mystery” series. Having read the entire series...

Spanning decades, continents, wars abroad and wars at home, The Colonel is the anticipated companion to Longbourn’s Songbird.

Another silly Austen-inspired faux magazine cover with a “mother” theme. What do you think?

I read “Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady” last autumn and through the winter because I have the epistolary novel featured...

Everyone knows Lizzie’s bad reputation and won’t let her forget it. But in the summer of 1959, when Billy Ray Davenport, son of preacher...

This just in! InD’Tale Magazine awarded a Crowned Heart for Excellence to Elizabeth: Obstinate, Headstrong Girl, and if I am reading it...

YULETIDE garden bench I donated via North American Friends of Chawton House was one of the first eight installed on Chawton House grounds.

How wonderful! Thrilled our “Elizabeth: Obstinate, Headstrong Girl” was a book award finalist at Readers’ Favorite. Check out the Review...

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Austen In August and flowers are blooming in my garden. In case you missed my post for...

Review of Joana Starnes’ latest Pride & Prejudice reimagining TWISTS of FATE

Review of Mimi Matthews’ JOHN EYRE

“I have lost a treasure...” Jane Austen died July 18, 1817

About the book: Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back in...

About the book: Marianne Dashwood was "born to an extraordinary fate...to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract,...

‪I edited thirteen books in 2020. Two are second editions. Five will publish in 2021. Eight are JAFF. I am thankful for the twenty author...

About the book: A wizard. An unwilling assistant. An explosive secret. In an America controlled by wizards and 100 years behind on...