Category Archives: book release

Welcoming Jennifer Redlarczyk and Her Release of “A Very Merry Mix-up”

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Regina Jeffers

 Today I welcome a dear friend of this blog and of Austen Authors. Jennifer Redlarczyk, who is releasing a novelette as a prelude to her first novel, Darcy’s Melody, which will arrive soon.  Austen fans are in for a real … Continue reading →

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A Closer Look at “Elizabeth Bennet’s Deception: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary”

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Regina Jeffers

Although I have written nearly two dozen Austen-inspired retellings, sequels, and mysteries, Elizabeth Bennet’s Deception was my first attempt at what is known as a “variation” in the JAFF (Jane Austen Fan Fiction) community. In a variation, the author changes one of … Continue reading →

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The Great Valley Road, Setting for My Novel, “The Road to Understanding”

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Regina Jeffers

When I began writing The Road to Understanding, I needed a perfect route to take my characters across the mountains between Virginia and Tennessee in the late 1780s. Who Traveled Across The Great Valley Road? The majority of the settlers in … Continue reading →

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A Closer Look at “The Road to Understanding”

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Regina Jeffers

In my short eight years of writing fiction, I have written a variety of genres/settings: retellings, sequels, Regencies, paranormal, cozy mysteries, vagaries, contemporaries, and inspirational. I will admit many of my 34 novels fall under the big “umbrella” of Regencies, … Continue reading →

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Twelfth Night Sale! Reduced Price on 30 of Regina Jeffers’s Titles! First, Fill Up Your eReaders with JAFF!

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Regina Jeffers

As of Friday, December 22, 2017, thirty (30)of my titles went on sale. The sale will continue through Friday, January 5, 2018.  Fill up your eReaders!!!! These 15 Austen-inspired titles should tempt you.      Darcy’s Passions: Pride and Prejudice Retold Through … Continue reading →

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The Taming of the Shrew’s Connection to “Pride and Prejudice and a Shakespearean Scholar” Excerpt + Giveaway

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Regina Jeffers

One of the main themes in my upcoming release of Pride and Prejudice and a Shakespearean Scholar: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary is the use William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew as a basis of the interaction between Darcy … Continue reading →

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How Did an American Author of the 1840s Influenced “Pride and Prejudice and a Shakespearean Scholar” + a Giveaway

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Regina Jeffers

Born in Tallmadge, Ohio, in February of 1811, Delia Saltar Bacon was an American author who was among the first to purport what is known as the Baconian theory, which perpetuates the idea that Sir Francis Bacon and others were … Continue reading →

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A Writing Desk Fit for Jane Austen, a Guest Post from Laurie Benson

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Regina Jeffers

A Writing Table Fit for Jane Austen This post originally appeared on Austen Authors, but I wished to share it with you. Laurie Benson shows us how cramped was the desk upon which Jane Austen created some of the world’s … Continue reading →

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Proving Lines of Succession + Release of “The Earl Claims His Comfort”

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Regina Jeffers

Succession for a Peerage What happens to a peerage if the peer cannot be found or is presumed dead? What becomes of his wife? His children? This is a familiar plot in many Regency novels. I used it in the … Continue reading →

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The Lady’s Companion in Life and in Literature, a Guest Post by Jude Knight + the Release of “Never Too Late”

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Regina Jeffers

The Lady’s Companion in Life and in Literature  As we know from reading historical fiction, women born to the aristocracy or gentry in the United Kingdom in the eighteenth or nineteenth century had few options for employment. If she needed … Continue reading →

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