Book Launch! ~ Persuade Me by Juliet Archer

Juliet Archer’s new book in her series “Darcy & Friends” will be released in the UK on September 15th.  Persuade Me is the second in this series that takes us into the world of Jane Austen’s novels,  fast-forwarded into the 21st century and much into the minds of her male heroes.  As in her first book, The [...]

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Book Giveaway ~ and the winner is….!

Corinne!  Congratulations on winning the book giveaway of Juliet Archer’s The Importance of Being Emma!  Please email me your address and contact information -  the publisher Choc-Lit will send you the book directly. Many thanks to everyone for the great questions and comments – and especially to Juliet Archer for her in-depth responses that gave [...]

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Last Chance! ‘The Importance of Being Emma’ ~ Book Giveaway

Reminder to all:  the deadline for posting comments and / or queries to author Juliet Archer to win a free copy of The Importance of Being Emma is midnight Friday September 25!  Posts to comment on: Interview with author Juliet Archer, Part 1 Interview with Ms. Archer, part 2. My review of The Importance of [...]

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Juliet Archer’s “Emma”, Part 2 ~ Book Giveaway!

Life certainly gets in the way of blogging! – here is the promised Part 2 of my interview with Juliet Archer, author of The Importance of Being Emma, and a confessed “19th-century mind in a 21st-century body.”  [see Part 1 of this interview here].  Please see below for the book giveaway info… we welcome your queries [...]

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Interview with Juliet Archer ~ Author of ‘The Importance of Being Emma’

Today we welcome author Juliet Archer, author of The Importance of Being Emma, [Choc-Lit, 2008].  Ms. Archer, who says she is a 19th-century mind in a 21st-century body [though she adds that some days it is the other way around!] joins us today from London to talk about her very humorous modernization of Jane Austen’s [...]

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Stay Tuned! ~ An Interview with Author Juliet Archer

  Last week I posted a review of Juliet Archer’s The Importance of Being Emma  [you can read my review here] ~  tomorrow I will post the first part of a two-part interview with Ms. Archer where she will share with us her thoughts on writing this modernization of Jane Austen for the 21st Century, the first in a series.  [...]

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Book Review ~ ‘The Importance of Being Emma’

    “You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.” “Brother and sister!  no, indeed.” [Emma, vol. III, ch. II, Chapman, p.331  ]             Juliet Archer in her Author’s  Note to The Importance [...]

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