Hi there!  I apologize for the lack of posts over the past several months.  My excuse: Pregnancy and working on my next novel is keeping me busy!

Not only do I have just 8 weeks until our little one is due, but I’ve been completing the first round of reader feedback revisions on my next book.  It’s a very exciting time!

If you click on the “What Readers Have to Say…” link, you’ll notice several new reviews about A Modern Day Persuasion.  Check them out!

With that, I promise to be in touch again soon with more information about this upcoming new novel!

Kaitlin

A Modern Day Persuasion was reviewed by the Bookish Dame Deborah of A Bookish Libraria for her Valentine’s week authors event.  Check out what she had to say about my book!

Check out my Valentine’s Day inspired guest post on Stiletto Storytime!

http://stilettostorytime.wordpress.com/

Thanks Courtney for inviting me to be on your website!

A Modern Day Persuasion was reviewed by Joceline Bury in the Jan/Feb 2012 edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, which is the Official Magazine of The Jane Austen Centre in Bath.  You can imagine the excitement I felt when my copy of the magazine arrived in the mail!

Saunders, meanwhile, transplants the Elliots and their coterie to another continent, as well as another century, basing her love story on the West Coast of the US.

In beautiful Portland, Oregon, Anne Elliot watches Jane Austen DVDs, looks after her sister’s children and quietly nurses her broken heart.  Saunders creates a convincing world for Anne and her family, cleverly updating the story without ever losing its overwhelming atmosphere of missed chances and misplaced affection.  Her Anne is a young woman irrevocably stuck in the past, marking time with her career and unable to move on – until, of course, the old love reappears, along with another potential suitor.

The thing I love most about Christmas, aside from remembering the true reason for the season, is traditions.  My husband and I have started a few of our own and it just makes the December air seem so festive.

For instance, we always make a big batch of home-made cinnamon rolls Christmas Eve and then bake them up Christmas morning.  Oh, how I love the smell of those delicious rolls baking in the oven while we open presents from each other!  When the rolls cool down enough to frost, we always put gobs of cream cheese frosting over them and gorge ourselves before sharing them with the rest of our family.  Our siblings look forward to our rolls every year now!

Then after we prepare our cinnamon rolls on Christmas Eve and sing carols at a Christmas Eve service, we come back to our cozy apartment, get into our most Christmasy pajamas and watch a favorite holiday movie.  This year we selected “It’s a Wonderful Life”.   And with my man by my side and our little baby growing day by day in my belly, well, it really is a wonderful life.

Merry Christmas everyone, and Happy Birthday, Jesus!  Thank you for coming to save us and giving us a holiday to celebrate your birthday!

Happy Holidays,

Kaitlin

Giveaway contestant Patricia has won a free copy of my book!  Congrats!

Thank you everyone who posted a comment during the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree Celebration.  Maybe next time!

Hugs,

Kaitlin

I used a time machine device and traveled back to 1804,
celebrating Jane’s 29th birthday with the then unknown authoress…

Jane arrived half-passed noon dressed in a delicate blue muslin gown and was received with hugs to the luncheon Cook had prepared for us in honor of her birthday. Jane looked bright despite having been under the weather earlier that week, although I did notice a queer look in her eyes but didn’t say anything. Instead, I attributed it to her known dislike of Bath. She and her family had been living in the city several years by then but Jane had yet to form a positive opinion of it. The only good which came out of her family’s relocation, she told me one afternoon, was being introduced to me. We met at a concert one fateful evening and had become fast friends, my being an appreciator of fiction and she, a gifted yet unpublished author.

As we sat down at the table, Jane complimented the array of goodies laid out
on the white linen tablecloth and I nodded my equal appreciation. My cook had outdone herself. There was a mouthwatering selection of finger sandwiches, cold cut pork, several flavors of freshly baked cookies and a pink layered cake with sprinkles on top of the frosting!

While nibbling ladylike on these tasty items, we lamented the fact that Cassandra had not been able to join us, having unfortunately contracted whatever the birthday girl had just recovered from. Jane intimated that she and Cassandra were due for a visit to the country to visit their brother and she hoped it would do them both a bit of good.

After the pleasant lunch, I gave Jane a handmade card and a short book of poems. She opened her gift with pleasure and read aloud several poetic selections before divulging to me her latest venture in fiction. It was quite an interesting tale but she hadn’t finished it yet. I believe she said the title was “The Watsons”. [to be continued...]

Enter to win a FREE copy of A Modern Day Persuasion by leaving a comment below.  The contest ends Dec. 23rd, and the winner will be announced shortly after.  My contest is open world-wide!

Thanks Maria of My Jane Austen Book Club and Katherine of November’s Autumn for asking me to be a part of the celebration!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE!

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE JANE AUSTEN’S BIRTHDAY SOIREE

1.Sharon Lathan
Blog: Sharon Lathan
Giveaway: Miss Darcy Falls in Love

2.Emily Snyder
Blog: O! Beauty Unattempted
Giveaway: Letters of Love & Deception

3.Laurel Ann Nattress
Blog: Austenprose
Giveaway: Signed copy of Jane Austen Made Me Do It

4.C. Allyn Pierson
Blog: SemiTrue Stories
Giveaway: Mr Darcy Little Sister (open worldwide)

5.Cindy Jones
Blog: First Draft
Giveaway: A signed copy of “My Jane Austen Summer” and a package of Lily Berry’s Pink Rose Tea by Bingley’s, Ltd.

6.Farida Mestek
Blog: Regency stories set against the backdrop of Regency England
Giveaway: I was Jane Austen Best Friend by Cora Harrison

7.Marilyn Brant
Blog: Brant Flakes
Giveaway: A canvas ACCORDING TO JANE tote bag and a pair of A SUMMER IN EUROPE luggage tags.

8.Prue Batten
Blog: Mesmered’s Blog
Giveaway: Anna Elliot’s  “Georgiana Darcy” (Kindle book)

9.Erin Blakemore
Blog: The Heroine’s Bookshelf
Giveaway:  A set of Potter-Style Pride and Prejudice notecards

10.Velvet
Blog: vvb32 reads
Giveaway: Jane Austen’s Little Instruction Book (Charming Petites) By
Jane Austen    Edited by Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Illustrated by Mullen &
Katz,  Introduction by  Barbara Paulding

11. Karen Doornebos
Blog: The Fiction vs. Reality Smackdown
Giveaway: 2 Jane Austen Candles and 2 signed DNMD books plus drink coasters and tea!

12.Regina Jeffers  ReginaJeffers’s Blog
Giveaway: An autographed copy of “Christmas at Pemberley“

13.Alyssa Goodnight
Blog: Alyssa Goodnight
Giveaway: Jane Austen Action figure

14.Deb
Blog: Jane Austen in Vermont
Giveaway: JASNA 2012 calendars from the Wisconsin JASNA Region

15.Laura Hile,  Susan Kaye, Pamela Aidan, and Barbara Cornthwaite
Blog: Jane Started It!
Giveaway:
One copy of Young Master Darcy: A Lesson in Honour by Pamela Aidan
One set of Frederick Wentworth, Captain (Books 1 and 2) by Susan Kaye
Two copies of Mercy’s Embrace: So Rough a Course (Book 1) by Laura Hile
George Kinghtley, Gentleman (Books 1 and 2) by Barbara Cornthwaite.

16.Juliet Archer
Blog: Choc Lit Authors’ Corner
Giveaway: A copy of “Persuade Me”  and one of “The Importance of Being Emma”

17.Jane Greensmith
Blog: Reading, Writing, Working, Playing
Giveaway: A copy of  “Intimations of Austen”, and Sense & Sensibility (Marvel Illustrated)

18.Jenny Allworthy
Blog: The Jane Austen Film Club
Giveaway: A copy of Northanger Abbey DVD starring Felicity Jones and JJ Feild (The winner will choose region 1 or 2 DVD)

19.Sitio Jane Austen
Blog: El Salón de Té de Jane
Giveaway: Spanish edition of Sense and Sensibility for the 200th Anniversary + A DVD package with adaptations of Jane Austen
(It’s only zone 2, but it’s in Spanish and English ) +  blu-ray of the BBC’s Emma with Romola Garai

20.Kaitlin Saunders
Blog: Kaitlin Saunders
Giveaway: “A Modern Day Persuasion”

21.Becky Rhodehouse
Blog: One Literature Nut
Giveaway: Selection of Austenesque Reads

22.Patrice Sarath
Blog: Patrice Sarath
Giveaway: A copy of The Unexpected Miss Bennet

23.Adriana Zardini
Site: Jane Austen Brasil
Giveaway: DVD – Sense and Sensibility (1995) – English / Portuguese subtitles

24.Jane Odiwe
Blog: Jane Austen Sequels
Giveaway: A mug with one of  Jane Odiwe’s illustrations and a copy of her “Mr Darcy’s Secret”

25.Courtney Webb
Blog: Stiletto Storytime
Giveaway: Noble Satyr by Lucinda Brant (Regency Romance)

26.Jennifer Becton
Blog: Jennifer W. Becton
Giveaway: An ebook of the Personages of Pride and Prejudice Collection, which contains all of my Austenesque works: Charlotte Collins, “Maria Lucas,” and Caroline Bingley. The giveaway will be open internationally.

27.Vera Nazarian
Blog: Urban Girl Takes Vermont
Giveaway: A copy of Vera Nazarian’s gift hardcover edition of her inspirational calendar and diary, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

28.Abigail Reynolds
Blog: Pemberley Variations
Giveaway: A signed copy of “Mr. Darcy’s Undoing”

29.Blog: AustenAuthors
Giveaway: Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester

30.Katherine Cox
November’s Autumn
Giveaway: $10 B&N Gift-card (US only)

31.Maria Grazia
My Jane Austen Book Club
Giveaway: A selection of Austenesque reads

Read the latest review of my novel, A Modern Day Persuasion, on the For the Love of Austen website.  Thanks Kate!

Readers, I woke up this morning wishing I could call in sick, pull the covers over my head, and stay in bed till noon–but then I read Indie Jane’s review of my book, A Modern Day Persuasion.

When I first started reading the review, I must admit I was a little worried.  The reviewer started out by saying she’s not a fan of Persuasion.  Surely she wouldn’t like mine then, since it follows the original so closely, right?!?  Wrong!  I think I’ve found a kindred spirit in Rebecca!

Thank you, Indie Jane, for making my day!  And readers, to check out the review, visit IndieJane.org

Have a wonderful day!

Kaitlin

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Happy reading!

Kaitlin