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Christina Boyd
Oct 22, 20243 min read
INTERVIEW: Lyndsay Constable Says to Read the Authors Who Inspire
Christina Boyd interviews author Lyndsay Constable. Constable has been a passionate reader since her early teen years and frequently ...
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Christina Boyd
Oct 8, 20245 min read
INTERVIEW: Summer Hanford Says Her Favorite Novel is Always the Next One
Christina Boyd interviews author Summer Hanford. Summer writes swashbuckling Historical Romance, best-selling Pride and Prejudice retellings
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Sophia Rose
Oct 3, 20243 min read
Review: MR. BINGLEY: JUST AS A GENTLEMEN OUGHT TO BE by Brandon Dragan
Guest review by Sophia Rose: Mr. Just as a Gentleman Ought to Be is the previously untold story of a young man who unwittingly uncovers...
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Christina Boyd
Oct 1, 20247 min read
INTERVIEW: Brandon Dragan Gives Mr. Bingley Time in the Spotlight
Christina Boyd interviews Brandon Dragan, an attorney in Tennessee and winner of the American Bar Association Journal's 2021 Ross Writing...
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Christina Boyd
Sep 17, 20244 min read
Why We Read (and or Write About) Jane Austen by Heather Moll
Austenesque author Heather Moll offers her take on Why We Read and Write About Jane Austen some two hundred years after the author died.
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Christina Boyd
Sep 10, 20243 min read
INTERVIEW: Gabriela Graciosa Guedes Borrows Personality Traits from People Around Her for Characters
Christina Boyd interviews Brazilian Austenesque author Gabriela Graciosa Guedes. Besides making a living off reading and writing stories
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Sophia Rose
Sep 5, 20243 min read
Review: THE SPINSTER by Amy D’Orazio and Jessie Lewis
Guest reviewer Sophia Rose says of THE SPINSTER. A fairytale-esque romantic adventure awaits the vicar’s daughter when she attends her 1st
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Christina Boyd
Aug 27, 20245 min read
INTERVIEW: Susie Orman Schnall Shares Three Points of Advice for New Authors
Christina Boyd interviewed Susie Orman Schnall, author of 5 novels about ambitious women: Anna Bright Is Hiding Something, We Came Here to
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Christina Boyd
Aug 20, 20243 min read
Why We Read (And Or Write About) Jane Austen by Nikki Payne
Author and anthropologist Nikki Payne, self-proclaimed Austen's sassy Black friend, offers her take on Why We Read and or Write About Jane
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Sophia Rose
Aug 8, 20243 min read
Guest Review: THE BODY AT PENFORD PRIORY by BD Churston
Guest reviewer Sophia Rose says of BD Churston's audiobook, THE BODY AT PENFORD PRIORY: "light and amusing." 4 stars
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Christina Boyd
Aug 6, 20246 min read
INTERVIEW: Shannon Winslow's Passion for Writing Changed Her Life
Christina Boyd interviewed Austenesque author Shannon Winslow who says she was minding her own business—raising two sons...
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Christina Boyd
Jul 30, 20244 min read
INTERVIEW: Caroline J. Trussell Wrote Her First Book at Age Seventeen
Christina Boyd interviewed author and literary agent, Caroline J. Trussell. Caroline has a background in editing, writing, communications
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Sophia Rose
Jul 25, 20243 min read
Guest review: A RUSE OF SHADOWS by Sherry Thomas
GUEST REVIEW by Sophia Review
In this latest of the Victorian era Lady Sherlock mysteries with a gender-bending Sherlock Holmes’ cast…
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Christina Boyd
Jul 23, 20246 min read
INTERVIEW: Nancy Springer Says Ignore Your Critique Group
Christina Boyd interviews Nancy Springer, award-winning author of The Books of Isle fantasy series, the Enola Holmes mystery series...
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Sophia Rose
Jul 18, 20243 min read
Guest Review: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mr. Darcy by Kelly Miller
Guest reviewer Sophia Rose read Kelly Miller's The Mysterious Disappearance of Mr. Darcy, historical mystery and part romance.
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Christina Boyd
Jul 18, 20245 min read
Why We Read (And Or Write About) Jane Austen by Lona Manning
Why do I read and/or write about Jane Austen? by Lona Manning
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Christina Boyd
Jul 9, 20247 min read
INTERVIEW: Robert Dugoni Regrets Killing Off Sloane's Wife
Christina Boyd interviews Robert Dugoni, critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestselling author.
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Christina Boyd
Jul 2, 20243 min read
INTERVIEW: Gail Carriger Goes on Research Trips All the Time
Christina Boyd interviews NY Times bestselling author Gail Carriger. She writes books that are hugs, mostly comedies of manners mixed...
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Christina Boyd
Jun 28, 20241 min read
Austenesque Free Book Bonanza
Download 58 Jane Austen fan fiction novels, including my multi-author anthology ELIZABETH: OBSTINATE, HEADSTRONG GIRL. Feed your Kindle
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Sophia Rose
Jun 27, 20243 min read
Guest Review: HEART OF A GENTLEMAN by Charlotte Brentwood
SophiaRose guest reviews “Heart of a Gentleman” by Charlotte Brentwood,
#3 in the “Hearts of Amberley” series.
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