My Love for Jane Austen

Rating: ★★★★★/★★★★★ Most Janeites know that Cassandra, Jane Austen's beloved sister destroyed or censored her letters and correspondence written by Jane to their family, relatives and friends that are deemed too inappropriate or impertinent for anyone to know how she feels about something or someone. In addition, no diaries and journals were known to survive until now. What would happened if less than two hundred years since her death, her personal journals were discovered and the contents are in the process of restoration? That is the premise of Stephanie Barron's mystery series, Being a Jane Austen Mystery , which revolves around our favourite authoress, with her keen sense of observation and sharp wit, try to solve some puzzling and mysterious deaths à la Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Nancy Drew, girl detective. The first novel in this series occurred after Jane turned down the proposal of Harris Bigg-Wither and needed a temporary home to escape the scoldings o...

The Austenesque scout is glad to report about four giveaways for three Austenesque books that are up for grabs this week. Austen scholar Professor Rachel M. Brownstein has written a guest post at Austenprose to celebrate the publication of her recent book, Why Jane Austen? . Do read her post and leave a comment there to win a copy of Why Jane Austen? out of the two that are on offer. Just answer either one of these question s by midnight PT of Wednesday, 13 July 2011 . " What intrigues you about this new lit/cultural history of Jane Austen? " or " Why are you a Janeite? " The bad news is this giveaway is open to US residents only. Vic Sanborn of Jane Austen's World is giving an opportunity for her worldwide readers and visitors of her blog to win Tea with Jane Austen , an informative book written by Kim Wilson about drinking tea during Regency times. This fabulous giveaway ends when her blog reaches 3 million visitors or next Monday, 4 July 2011 ...

The Austenesque scout is delighted to impart some good news to her readers on a book giveaway this week. Maria Grazia who manages My Jane Austen Book Club , a dedicated blog on all  Austen things, has a guest post by Lucinda Brant. The latter is the author of numerous Georgian historical romance. Read what she has to say on her experience in England during the 1980's and her love of Persuasion and Mr Knightley at her post . If you comment or ask her a question here , you get the chance to win a lovely hardcover edition of Salt Bride , her latest Georgian romance novel. Remember to include your email address as well. This giveaway is open worldwide and the deadline is next Thursday, 30 June 2011 . Good luck if you are entering the above contest!

The Austenesque scout is delighted to share some good news on three book giveaways that is reported on the web this week. Mary Lydon Simonsen, author of numerous Austen sequels is kindly offering a giveaway of her novels and novellas at her blog . The lucky winner will select from the list of titles that is given on her post and there are as follows. <A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_cw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fmylofojaau-20%2F8010%2F48f5cfd8-573c-4a8b-a3ff-6210560a3289&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A> She wants to know your answer to this question: If you can pair up any male and female in Austen's novel, who will they be? Comment with your answers and include your email address . This international giveaway ends next Monday, 20 June 2011 at 12 noon . Winner will be announced the ...

Over at vvb32 Reads , there is an interactive virtual book event organised by Velvet based on Jane Austen's Persuasion held these past two days in conjunction with Book Rat's Jane in June II . Take a look at the schedule of events and how to win some of the swags offered by publisher, guest blogger and author alike. I'm sure you'll have a fantastic time navigating your way with Captain Frederick Wentworth as did I. Here is a teaser of the giveaways you may want to enter (if you don't already have them in your collection). The good news is most giveaways are open worldwide and deadline is 26 June 2011 except when it is specifically mentioned. Click on the image for more details on how to participate. 1) 1 copy of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters courtesy of the publisher Quirk Books. 2) A pair of red snakeskin footzyrolls in size 9/10 donated by Midnight Cowgirl of The Fashion Planner . Ends on 15 June 2011 . 3) Wi...

Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard is Belinda Roberts' debut Austen-inspired novel published by Sourcebooks on 1 June 2011 which was previously self-published as Prawn & Prejudice . In this hilarious and whimsical retelling of Pride & Prejudice , the main characters are transplanted to the modern seaside beach of Salcombe, balls are replaced with Regatta Week and Pemberley is Mr. Darcy's stunning yacht. This book is best read during the summer on a nice beach. Since this is a Sourcebooks release, there will be a few copies of Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard to be given free at some book blogs to coincide with Belinda's visit. Take note that the prizes are shipped to US and Canadian addresses only which in my opinion, it is certainly not fair because readers of Austen genres are everywhere in the world. Nevertheless, her blog tour schedule are as follows: 6th: Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard Blog Tour with Author Belinda Roberts, and a Giveaway @ Austenprose (previously posted...

After a hiatus of two weeks, the Austenesque scout is back and delighted to bring to your attention some wonderful news about four book giveaways for this week. Austen-inspired author, Belinda Roberts has recently released her novel in US titled Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard . Her guest post with three copies of her novels as giveaways is up at Austenprose so take a peek here . To enter, leave a comment by midnight PT of next Wednesday, 15 June 2011 mentioning what intrigues you most about reading a Pride and Prejudice retelling or which of Austen's novels or characters you would like to see Belinda write about next. The bad news is contest is only open for US and Canadian readers because her publisher, Sourcebooks will be shipping them. Marilyn Brant, author of According to Jane , Friday Mornings at Nine and the soon-to-be release A Summer in Europe is guest blogging on My Jane Austen Book Club to promote her new e-book titled On Any Given Sundae in addition to a barg...

You may have heard about the Jane in June event promoted on the sidebar of my blog and other Jane Austen dedicated blogs such as Austen Authors and My Jane Austen Book Club and wondering what it's all about. It is Jane Austen event dedicated to promoting her masterpiece to anyone who may or may not have heard or read any of her novels. This fantastic event is in its second year and is hosted by Misty at The Book Rat . She has been busy organising this event and sending out invitations to interested participants since January this year so if you like to read the first announcement, take a look here . Basically, there will posts that is somehow related to Jane Austen such as book reviews of Austen's work and Austenesque novels, Jane Austen adaptations, giveaways, games and entertainment to name just a few. Additionally, a reading event of Pride and Prejudice is also organised where interested participants posts their thoughts and discuss selected chapters of the novel ev...