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April 22, 2019

REVIEW: The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsactor/actress / classic literature / Contemporary / critic / enemies to lovers / England / family drama / family relationships / Jane Austen / theater2 Comments

In which experienced West End actress Freddy Carlton takes on an Austen-inspired play, a scandal at a country estate, an enthusiastic search for a passion outside of acting…and the (some people might say icy*) heart of London’s most feared theater critic. *if those people were being nice Freddy Carlton knows ... more >

March 24, 2017

Friday News: India’s Romance writers, cover confusion, and “alt-right” Austen

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / celebrity likeness / India / Jane Austen / Nikita Singh / politics / Romance novel covers / Theodore Beale9 Comments

A romance novel in two weeks! – Forget the title of this article, because it distracts from the actual content, which is focused on Nikita Singh, who has written ten books (her first at age 19 while she was in pharmacy school) and is published by Penguin India. Singh is a Romance ... more >

April 27, 2016

Wednesday News: RIP Harlequin Blaze, WTF Hugo Awards, and Curtis Sittenfeld retells Austen

JanetPublishing NewsAusten Project / Curtis Sittenfeld / Harlequin Historical / Harlequin Romance / Harlequin-Blaze / Harper Collins / Hugo Awards / Jane Austen12 Comments

Harlequin Blaze shutting down in 2017 – Although this news is still breaking on social media, we want to report the news that Harlequin (or should we say Harper Collins??) is shutting down the Blaze line completely in June 2017. Around the same time, it appears that Harlequin Historical and ... more >

December 21, 2015

Monday News: The state of print, Austen unboxed, Tracy Norman, and the sight of sound

JanetPublishing Newscomedy of manners / digital books / fashion / Jane Austen / print books / sound waves / transgender1 Comments

Against all odds, print books are on the rise again in the US – I’m starting to think that most of the surprise around the persistence of print books is coming from those who are most afraid of its demise, and this Quartz article is a good example of that. What’s ... more >

September 18, 2015

Friday News Regency Romance, GRNW Meet-Up, “mistreating” books, and clever music + movie mashup

JanetPublishing NewsGeorgette Heyer / historical romance / Jane Austen / LGBTQIA romance / paper books / Regency Period / video12 Comments

The Regency Romance: How Jane Austen (Kinda) Created a New Subgenre – Consensus on Twitter last night, where this article was circulating, is that the title is AWFUL, especially given the fact that the article itself makes the crucially important points that Austen was writing books about her own society ... more >

August 20, 2015

Thursday News: New Austen biopic, African-American Romance, #LoveOzYA, and the water-filter book

JanetPublishing NewsAfrican American Romance / Australian literature / diversity / films / Jane Austen / publishing / science / YA6 Comments

{TB EXCLUSIVE} JANE AUSTEN ROMANTIC COMEDY “JANE BY THE SEA” SET AT VOLTAGE PICTURES – So another Austen biopic is in the works. Yawn. As with Emily Dickinson, there appears to be some kind of compulsion to “discover” what made these women write. To be read as follows: the men (presumed) ... more >

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