CONFESSIONS is now in paperback in the UK

AND it got reviewed in The Independent.  Bloomsbury, you rock!

RUDE AWAKENINGS is here, and CONFESSIONS needs your vote.

It's heeeeere! RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT. June 25 is the day!

 At a time like this I find myself caught between channeling Mrs. Bennet ("Oh, Lord! What will become of me. I shall go distracted") and that Mike Myers character (you know, the one who's always verklempt).

Romantic Times has made RUDE AWAKENINGS a Top Pick for July, SisterDivas Magazine praises it for its "great main character, solid storytelling, and social commentary on women, independence, and love," and the Deseret News calls it "the perfect summer read."

Enjoy the book, and please check the Jane Austen Addict homepage for giveaways and other news.

And please vote for CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, which has been nominated for  a 2009 Regency World Award.* 

Polls close June 30, so please cast your vote now! 

*The Regency World Awards are sponsored by The Jane Austen Centre in Bath, a wonderful place to visit.

Many thanks, and may this summer bring you much happiness! 

In Two Places at Once. I Think.

Two reviews in major UK papers in the space of a week. What riches! Lord bless me! I shall go distracted.

Okay, enough channeling of Mrs. Bennet.

But it is thrilling that CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT is receiving such a warm welcome in England, as it's just been published there by Bloomsbury.

Here's an interesting thought: Jane Mansfield, the protagonist of the upcoming parallel story, RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT (and no relation to the 1950s screen siren), will be able to go online and read The Observer, the same paper she could read in print in 1813 (it's been around since 1791). What I really can't wrap my mind around is that this nineteenth-century woman will be able to sit in her apartment in the twenty-first-century and read a 2009 review of CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, which will tell her what's going on in the nineteenth-century life she left behind.

Brain in pretzels? Me, too. Absolut martini? Thought you'd never ask.