I'm much happier being an indie novelist than I was being trad pubbed. Except when it comes time to write the blurb. I'd rather write a whole new book! Sigh.

What a deal - 14 of @marthawells.com's fabulous books for $18 - in support of World Central Kitchen. Already have them all? Buy it and give them to your friends!

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Like crafty stuff? This auction to support a cancer survivor is ending soon and still has some real bargains! I'm in love with one of the quilts and a scarf. :) www.32auctions.com/organization...

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

We don't ask for much. All we really want is a good book, a pet sleeping at our feet, and some precedented times.

Elizabeth Bennet walked to Netherfield with her petticoats 6 inches deep in mud. Who cleaned them? I wish I could see this exhibit about Jane Austen's Working Women - including some real-life ones who inspired her. #Austenesque

We don't do much on the Fourth of July, but I like to go out on the deck at dark and watch the distant fireworks because, well, fireworks? They're fun? But tonight they just made me feel sad.

Sweating from the heat, or just in a continual state of inelegance? Thinking of all those dealing with heat in Europe and the UK. "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." - Jane Austen #heatwave #Austenesque

So proud of my town, out in the rain! #NoKings

My Austenesque gaslamp fantasy trilogy, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mage, has decided to grow up to be a tetralogy. Which is a bit of a surprise to me, but the author's always the last to know! News ad an outtake at www.pemberleyvariations.com/2025/06/02/n.... #JAFF #gaslamp #historicalfantasy

It's emergence day for the Brood XIV cicadas on Cape Cod! A little late because of the cold spring, but still amazing. #bugsky #invertebrate #falmouth #capecod

Yay! I'm so ready for a new @kjcharleswriter.com book!

So, while planning a con to honor and celebrate authors, you decided to save time by employing a LLM that plagiarized and stole from those very same authors? Read the room!

Feeling so excited and overwhelmed and grateful on launch day for 💐 THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! 💐 Have been listening to the wonderful audiobook all morning in between writing the next in the Austentatious series (The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley)! 👗🥂

Microdosing Jane Austen... now there's an idea!

SFWA folks! We Romancing SFF folks are having our quarterly meetup tomorrow! Join us for talking about how the year is progressing and socializing. Share a win, a struggle, or just some tea. 4/19 at 11pm PST @sfwa.bsky.social #sfwa #romancingsff Link: events.sfwa.org/events/roman...

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of Mrs. Dalloway.

TFW your books finally reach the end of their KU term and you can make them wide and break the amaz*n straitjacket! I hate everything that's happening, but I'm so glad people are now willing to buy books elsewhere.

Anyone who thinks Jane Austen’s books are sweet and gentle has not read Jane Austen’s books. She’s magnificently astringent, wryly judgmental, sardonically funny. Wildly enjoying latest *Persuasion* reread. I needed this.

If you see this, post a gif from one of your comfort shows. (C'mon, you knew that was coming!)

Sounds intriguing!

I love these illustrations of quotes from Jane Austen's letters! Full of biting wit, and showing the real person behind the books. #Austenesque

England. Princess Charlotte's Pretty 'Russian' dress, 1817. Silk, gold, metallic and silk lace, gold metallic fringe. Made for Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain (1796-1817). © The Royal Collection Trust #FashionHistory

If you need a lift today, read the thread this is in from the beginning. The battle of the museums! And if you're not following @romanpalace.bsky.social, you're missing out.

Today needs a special writer's challenge: stop scrolling/staring at the news and write 3 sentences. They don't have to be good sentences, as long as they engage the writer brain. Yes, I'm posting this for accountability because nothing else is working right now.

Happy #PrideandPrejudiceDay! Can you imagine a world without Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy? I don't want to! #Austenesque

Feuerzangenbowle! We had to cancel our family New Years' Eve tradition because of a critically ill cat, but since 2025 desperately needed a reboot, we did it tonight. A traditional German holiday drink with a rum-soaked sugar loaf set on fire over mulled wine.

Want to know more about what happened before Pride & Prejudice started? Meet a different side of Darcy & Georgiana in my new scene in Prelude to Pemberley, the @austenvariations.bsky.social prequel group writing project. austenvariations.com/pp-prelude-t... #JAFF #Austenesque

Sounds like fun!

For #onlybeautifulthings day, here's a winter sunset over Buzzards Bay.

P&P Prelude to Pemberley: Georgiana Darcy has a request Welcome to the first scene in our Pride & Prejudice prequel! P&P: Prelude to Pemberley tells the story of the time leading up to the events of Pride & Prejudice, including what Darcy and Elizabeth were doing and thinking, Georgiana Darcy's…

TFW when someone gives you a tea you know you won't like, but you drink it to be polite and end up LOVING it and drinking it every day and now you need to order more.... Gingerbread House from @fridaytea.com. Scrumptious.

The Twelve Days of Jane Austen’s Christmas 3rd Day of Christmas. December 27, 1808: Jane Austen writes about a 41-year-old widow’s second marriage, “Lady Sondes’ match surprises, but does not offend me…I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their Lives for Love, if they can.”

I think many of the things people point to as technical flaws in current romance are actually artifacts of the frenetic release schedules many professional romance writers are forced to adhere to. No luxury of time to edit, to sit with something long enough for refinements to come organically.

What an amazing opening. I read it, stared at it, studied it, read it again. And then I gobbled down the rest The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Perry. What a treat! Definitely among the best of the year, probably an all-time personal favorite. Wonderful academic historical fantasy.

Pemberley, 1845. A tiny vignette about Darcy and Elizabeth, 33 years after their wedding. Only 7 paragraphs long, and one of my favorite things I've written. austenvariations.com/pp-the-untol... #JAFF

A Jane Austen Advent Calendar - December 17 December 17, 1775: Jane Austen is baptized privately at home. The Steventon church record reads, “Jane, daughter of the Rev’d Mr. George Austen, Rector of this Parish, & Cassandra his Wife was privately Batptiz’d Dec. 17th 1775.”

Going to keep posting Tea Dragons until I’m all caught up! Tonight’s dragon is the Matcha Tea Dragon: grounded and rather serious, the Matcha Tea Dragon is quite proper and a stickler for tradition. #teapainting #teadragons #dragons #watercolor

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, born #otd in 1775. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.' 👀

Happy 249th Birthday to Jane Austen! Next year's a big birthday, Miss Austen, but don't let it trouble you - you've aged beautifully! Image of Jane Austen from the freehand embroidery of my multi-talented German translator, Nicola Geiger.

‘I feel happy in having a friend to save me from the ill effect of my own blunder.’ ✍ Jane Austen writing to her publisher, John Murray, 11 December 1815. #janeausten #janeaustenshouse #booksky 💙📚

Ooh, how to make an author's day! I can't stop smiling.

I'm writing a scene that takes place in the Crimson Drawing Room of Carlton House, the over-the-top, opulent mansion of the Prince Regent. Income inequality at its finest! Lady Catherine de Bourgh feels quite at home. #JAFF #amwriting #regency

Not ready to review it yet, but I’m in the middle of THE MAN WHO LOVED PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by @abigailreynolds.bsky.social and it’s a corker. Not technically a JAFF I suppose, more of a contemporary P&P retelling. Lizzy is a marine biologist at MBL Woods Hole @mblscience.bsky.social! 💕🦀🧪

A Jane Austen Advent Calendar - December 3 December 3, 1802: Jane Austen changes her mind about marrying Harris Bigg-Wither. Years later she writes to a niece: “Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without Affection.”

I woke up one day and found a headless bat in my house. Not that shocking; we have cats who can hunt anything. I called animal control immediately. It set off a massive, daylong affair with a vet coming to our house, all of us quarantined, reports to 4 different agencies, and a bat necropsy.

Never enough tea! My daughter and I made our own tea advent calendar this year using sample bags from Teabos, heavy on single-origin Darjeeling. Today's was a fruity Jungpana Spring Chinary Black. Light and appealing! It's going to be a tasty month.

"Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot, that we may not deserve to lose them by discontent or indifference." – Jane Austen Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.

Your writing process will change on a daily basis with every project, because every project is different. Whatever gets you to the final product is the way that that book needed to be written. So I need you to stop scrolling and say this aloud right now. "My writing process is not broken."