All Around the World with Jane! ~ a photo contest from Sourcebooks

This just in from Beth at Sourcebooks! – get your camera ready and off you go!… Hi there!  In the June memoir, All Roads Lead to Austen the author Amy Elizabeth Smith took Jane Austen’s works along with her as she traveled to foreign countries. Her goal was to see if the magic of Jane [...]

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Book Giveaway Winner! ~ “The Perfect Visit” ~ Time-Traveling with Jane Austen

Congratulations! to Danielle, who has won the random drawing for The Perfect Visit by Stuart Bennett. The interview with Mr. Bennett can be found at these two posts: Part I, and Part II. Danielle, please email me the address you would like me to send the book to, and I will get it off to [...]

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Part II ~ The Perfect Visit ~ Interview with Stuart Bennett, Wherein We Meet Jane Austen and Shakespeare ~ Plus, a Book Giveaway!

Today I again welcome Stuart Bennett, for Part II of our interview where we discuss his new book The Perfect Visit, a time-travel tale, a romance, and a pure escape into the Regency world of Jane Austen and the Elizabethan world of William Shakespeare! [Please go to this link for Part I of the interview.] You [...]

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Part I ~ The Perfect Visit ~ Interview with Stuart Bennett, Wherein We Meet Jane Austen and Shakespeare … and Enter to Win the Book Giveaway!

The Perfect Visit (Longbourn Press, 2011) is, no way to say it otherwise, a perfect treat – who of us would not want to spend a few days [or pull an all-nighter!] in the company of a time-travelling couple who are each in turn lovers of books, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and just possibly each other? [...]

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Book Giveaway announced! ~ and the winner is…

… Karen Field, who commented on 2-24-12 at 8:04 pm.  Congratulations Karen! you have won a copy of Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment by Elsa Solender.  If you have a kindle [you mention that you do!], you can download the book here at Amazon.com, and I will reimburse you the $8.99 – or we [...]

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Book Giveaway Reminder! ~ Jane Austen in Love by Elsa Solender

Reminder! – today is the last day to comment on the post about Elsa Solender’s Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment.  Go here: http://tinyurl.com/73grlcc and post your comment to be included in the drawing tomorrow March 5, 2012. Copyright @2012 Jane Austen in Vermont

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Book Giveaway announced! – Jane Austen Made Me Do It by Laurel Ann Nattress

And the lucky winner is: Margay who responded on October 24 with: Well, I’m always interested in what authors think should or could have happened to these characters if Jane Austen had ever revisited them. But what intrigues me most about this book is how many well known authors participated in it – how many [...]

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Book Giveaway Reminder! ~ Jane Austen Made Me Do It

Reminder to post a comment on the interview with Laurel Ann Nattress, to be thrown into the mix for the giveaway of her book Jane Austen Made me Do It – you have until tomorrow night October 26 at midnight [i.e. the wee hours of the morning of October 27th] – I will announce the [...]

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Why Jane Austen? ~ and the winner is….

Char Brooks!  Congratulations Char! – Please send me an email with your address and phone number by next Monday August 15, 2011 [or the names shall be put back in the hat for another random drawing!]  Thank you all for commenting and sharing “why Jane Austen?” in your life.  For those who didn’t win, you can find the [...]

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Why Jane Austen? – Book Giveaway Deadline…

Last chance to enter the book giveaway drawing for Why Jane Austen? by Rachel Brownstein:  deadline is tomorrow Wednesday August 10th at midnight – drawing on Thursday August 18.  You can comment on either of these posts, on Why Jane Austen in your life, or just stop by and say “hello”! Part I: http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/rachel-brownstein-on-why-jane-austen-an-interview-and-book-giveaway/  Part II: [...]

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