I'm thrilled to announce my debut book, According To Jane: a novel about pride, prejudice & the pursuit of the perfect guy (Kensington Books, trade paperback), will be in stores on October 1, 2009! It's the story of a modern young woman who receives romantic advice--some good, some not so good--from the spirit of Jane Austen. This manuscript won RWA's prestigious Golden Heart Award® in 2007 for "Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements," and I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to finally seeing it on the shelves...

June 2009

This month I had the pleasure of getting to read through the page proofs for According To Jane --very exciting to take a look at the book in its last stage before printing! I also finished writing and (mostly) revising my second Kensington women's fiction project (due out October 2010), so it's been a busy several weeks!

In big news for the coming month, I'll have the pleasure of hosting four Jane Austen Society writers on my blog at the end of June (the 22nd through the 30th) for"AustenFest on Brant Flakes"--a summer celebration in honor of Jane and the books these wonderful writers have created to inform and entertain us. There will be a number of book giveaways, author interviews and lots of virtual tea drinking and scone nibbling! Please check out the Contests page for details!!

And one final note: Welcome. Thank you for visiting my little home on the web and for your interest in my writing. I appreciate the time you took to stop by and, I look forward to getting to know you a bit better. I hope you'll find much to interest you here, and that you'll return.

Best wishes to all!

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not disguised, or a little mistaken."
~Jane Austen