My friend and BVC colleague Nancy Jane Moore has her say, over at the BVC blog.

Naturally I had to respond!

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Several of the conversations I fell into at Readercon touched on this subject. That and a small but over-the-years persistent request to republish my riff resulted in me doing that today.

Anyone want to discuss?

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I was asked to do a reprise of my post on the differences between Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, so I took the opportunity to update it a bit. And left the comments from before, which I found really interesting.

In other news, at Bubonicon now, having a terrific time.

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A chewy interview with Ada Palmer over at mrissa's LiveJournal. Makes me want to sneak in and listen when Ada is talking about narrative process ( Read more... )

Originally posted by papersky at Jane Austen to Cassandra
Dearest Cassandra ( Read more... )

Because sister Cassandra burned most of Jane Austen's letters, we have few touching on serious matters, but what there remains is full of trenchant observations and delightful sarcasm as well as the joy and exasperation of daily life ( Read more... )

Three requests will usually do it, but since the beginning of the year I've had like over a dozen queries boiling down to, "Where is that thing you wrote about the difference between Austen and Heyer?" so here it is in reprise.

Yesterday a bunch of Jane Austen readers crammed into a friend's house for a lively, quote-punctuated discussion Mansfield Park, but before it began I had to take a picture of this jacaranda tree below. Sorry the color is muted--we've got some relief from the heat by marine layer. Though there is no hope of rain until November or December, every ( Read more... )

A post from me about Jane Austen, romance, and writerly intent as part of the Athena's Daughters Kickstarter.

There are still tons of goodies offered.

Today's riff is on Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and the Silver Fork novels.