It is so delicious that the front of a man's pants in the Regency was called the fall. Makes for such delightful double-entendre in scenes when she seduces him. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Finished the Murderbot show. Really enjoyed it, but annoyed by the ending. That trope where someone takes off without a word but the people they're leaving somehow know and rejoice for them is so cheap. No, people are going to worry if you don't tell them. Communicate!

Deep into writing the Regency vampire novel sequel. Dealing with the moral qualities of vampirism. In my world, people who become vampires from scratch have to be truly evil and violate guest right. Being made into a vampire is easier, but won't work if you're not on some level a bad person. 💙📚

Like deep dives with a modern eye into a classic? Here I spend 45 minutes analyzing Pride & Prejudice with an eye to Darcy's sexuality - was he demisexual? It was way too much fun. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Ran across this song while in a bad mood. Went a long way toward cheering me up. scifi.radio/2025/04/23/v...

Just got a sweet review of A Secret Understanding. Probably won't go live on Amazon until I renew my Booksprouts subscription for "The Shadow Over Kent," but delightful to find that someone else gets my work. "...a tender, humorous revisiting of P&P but with a sensuous detour." 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

I wish there was some way to opt completely out of celebrity marriage news. I'm sometimes interested in entertainers' products, but not in the minutiae of the breeding program.

Is there a version of Focus Friend that will play with this cat when I just get into work and she decides that now is playtime? 💙📚

Whereas I like to think we romance writers invariably sport a messy bun, except on those rare occasions when we need to be recognized in public. Then we coax our manes into some semblance of a hairstyle of our period of interest. 💙📚

I had the most *horrible* idea. Since I'm writing a vampire novel (sequel to below), this is a good thing. Not sure if I'll use the idea in its full form. I've done some bad stuff to Darcy, but just not sure he'd come back from that. But, pardon the pun, it's going in. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Plotting "The Shadow Over Kent," sequel to my Regency vamp novel. If I had known that turning Lady Catherine de Bourgh into a vampire would have this many consequences... Who am I fooling, I still would have done it. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

I didn't get to swim on vacation (turns out the Gualala is unsafe to swim where it's deep enough this time of year), but my characters are making up for it. Someone just had to mention that Darcy was supposed to be naked in the pond scene in P&P '95... 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Seven volcanoes firing up in Russia is giving "someone pulled the fire mages off ward duty and sent them to Ukraine" vibes.

Back in town after going up the coast for a couple days. Had a painful reminder not to walk down gravel-covered stone stairs while thinking about vampires, but the sprain is healing nicely. Made a good start on "The Shadow over Kent," sequel to "A Darkness in Hertfordshire." 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

If you haven't yet seen Iron Maiden's "The Writing on the Wall," I highly recommend it. I've rarely seen such a trenchant piece of art.

AO3 is the most amazing platform. To get a taste (or, rather, large mouthfuls) of my work with a click, check it out. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

I have many names. Seriously, the first time my now-partner called me, my voice mail message had my real name, my Ren Faire name, my SCA name and my belly dance name. He thought I lived with roommates. In high school I earned the nickname "Satan" (try being the only non-Christian in a Bible school).

Life is full of fascinating contradictions. Such as, it's increasingly popular (nay, required) to make movie-quality videos in order to get readers to read your book. I don't understand humans. Being one doesn't help. 🤣 💙📚

I'm so pleased that folks are enjoying my JaneCon presentation, "Is Darcy Demi? An Exploration of Sexuality." Went into it unsure of how much I'd find in the text. Turned out there was more than I could fit in the 45-minute slot. Anyone interested in what I found in volume 3? 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

How did it take me this long to write a sex pollen story? This is so much fun. 💙🌶️📚 #prideandprejudice

Watched the most delightful JaneCon presentation where Cassiane and Mary analyzed their favorite queer pairings and voted for their favorites. Unfortunately Mary/Georgiana was disqualified due to Georgiana's age, but it was a lot of fun anyway. #janecon 💙📚 🏳️‍🌈

A half-hour until my presentation, "Is Darcy Demi? An Exploration of Sexuality" goes live. It was so much fun pouring through the text for hints about his sexual being. Looking forward to seeing folks' reactions! #prideandprejudice #janecon 💙📚 www.youtube.com/channel/UCcD...

JaneCon is begun! Wonderful presentation on textiles and clothing right now! Join us. #prideandprejudice #janeCon 💙📚

Okay Patreon, I know PDFs are so ancient they're probably like papyrus scrolls to you, but some of your users are paying for them. Like mine, the day after tomorrow. Don't roll out a new upload platform without testing it with all the relevant file types. Grrrrr...

Want more kisses? How about 16 tales of first kisses? www.amazon.com/Each-Time-Th... 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Just checked the calendar. On the day I'll present at JaneCon (July 19) Darcy had been pining for Lizzy after her refusal for 101 days. What inspiration. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Posted a story on AO3 in honor of it coming back up after maintenance (FSM bless the volunteers). "Her Petticoat" is an examination of Darcy's feelings after Lizzy shows up at Netherfield. If you like how I get into Darcy's head, come to JaneCon: virtualjanecon.com 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Maybe you don't need to read an explicit description of a dude getting kicked in the balls, but if you do: 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Just over a fortnight until JaneCon! Have you cleared your weekend yet? virtualjanecon.com #janeausten #prideandprejudice 💙📚

Waiting for my presentation video to finish exporting. JaneCon's deadline is Tuesday, so I need to get uploaded and captions added ASAP. Made a little meme for the occasion. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

I am happy to report that during today's recording of my JaneCon presentation, the cats only stopped the proceedings 3-4 times. #prideandprejudice #janecon

Perhaps it is foolhardy of me to read my reviews, but they've never hurt my feelings or morale. OTOH, some of them have made me laugh. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice www.amazon.com/author/kauri...

Just got my slot for presenting at JaneCon! Pleased to discover that 9 p.m. UTC is a graceful 2 p.m. here on the West Coast. I'll dive into both text and fic about Darcy's sexuality. It's gonna get 🔥! virtualjanecon.com @virtualjanecon.bsky.social #janeausten #prideandprejudice 💙📚

Apricot season is on! We cannot claim the glory of having planted a Moorpark, but our Royal Blenheim is producing nicely. And they taste nothing like a potato, well-boiled or otherwise. #janeausten #gardening

Colbert razzing fantasy romance may be the sign that the genre has reached its zenith. 💙📚

One place I stick to P&P canon is that Darcy asks Lizzy before he asks her father for his consent. In none of Austen's works does the hero ask her father before the heroine. I suspect that it's chronistic, but (ex. hymens not existing) I have certain immutable head canons. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Talk to your partner. Much misery can be avoided if people just talk without letting ego get in the way. 💙📚

What makes Darcy so aggravating to me is how richly resourced he is. Not only is he high status, wealthy and educated, he has a facility with words that should have made it trivial to endear himself to Elizabeth. But time after time, we see him mis-using that capacity. If he had just confessed his

One of the reasons I left journalism was that I finally comprehended the implications of "news hole." That's the room left over for news once they've fitted all the ads that postal regulations will allow.

The deep, internal conflict brought on by PBS Eons and Randall's "What If?" having both dropped videos on the same morning. If Octavia Cox had posted, too, I might have succumbed to my first world problem.

I'm not saying I'm an expert in English history, but when someone brings up any of the Angevin kings, I'm way too likely to go into lecture mode about how weird they all were.

This Saturday taught me that it is possible to strain your waving muscles. Guess I'm out of practice, but so many people showed up and everyone was so excited that I waved like crazy.

For everyone trying to summon lightning for tomorrow, I understand that this Leslie Fish song has proved efficacious. Sometimes inadvertently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUVH...

If you're feeling the need to see people fighting back effectively against a bloodsucking menace while falling in love, I've got you. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

I rounded up all my femdom stories into one collection. If you like it when she's on top - calling the shots or holding the whip - this might just be up your alley. 💙🌶️📚

So excited for all the people who are going to get swept up in the upcoming adaptations of P&P and come romping into the fandom. A couple hundred years of people thinking about the book and writing an astounding array of variations and analyses is a lot of food for thought. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

I must confess to absolutely loving pushing the envelope of what is considered a P&P variation. Just got a review for my new novel that I adore because they enjoyed it despite my defying the conventions. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Got to the grocery store just in time to witness a mama duck taking her some 10 ducklings across the parking lot. By the time they reached the curb they had at least a half-dozen people doing crowd control.

For years (decades even) I hadn't checked out the Derbyshire Writers Guild because it seemed to be purely sequels and modern AUs. Turns out they have lots of the canon divergent stuff that's my jam. 🤗 #prideandprejudice

Holy moly, my current close read of P&P is all about Darcy's sexuality, but if I was looking for evidence that he was on the spectrum, I'd be rolling in it. His choice of walks into Meryton as a topic in an already fraught conversation, given the Wickham situation, was just the sort of thing that