Why I Am Not Jane Austen

(this article was written by Ms Mansfield in 1999 or thereabouts, for an earlier incarnation of her website, derived from notes from a speech given to the Jane Austen Society) Some people find the...

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The Last Secret Vice (part 3)

Read part 1 Read part 2 The “bodice-ripper” is a parody of the old historical, substituting explicit sex for scenes of derring-do. (In those I examined, chosen at random from the shelves, each had at least two sex scenes in …

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The Last Secret Vice (part 2)

Read Part 1 here With the heaviness taken out of the historical novel, the remainder was lightweight. Lightweight reading can not, of course, be taken serious, either by the critics or the intellectuals. From here it is easy to anticipate …

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The Last Secret Vice (part 1)

Buried inconspicuously on the obituary page of the New York Times of July 6th, 1974 was a brief paragraph reporting the death of Georgette Heyer. The obit editor was probably unaware that for hundreds of thousands of readers, Miss Heyer’s passing was a blow worthy of front-page headlines. Why was the obit editor unaware of this? Because Georgette Heyer wrote romances, and even though any bookseller will tell you that her books are still best-sellers (all fifty of them), nobody admits to reading them.

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“Any Day Now”

All of the first 6 books have been proofed and sent to the publisher. I just got word tonight that the first three will be uploaded to Amazon and Barnes & Noble within the next couple of days and should appear on these sites within the next week or two.

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Next eBook in the Queue

While we wait for eReads to finish production on Mother’s Choice, I have started proofreading the second book to be released this year, The Girl in the Persian Shawl. I think I will celebrate finishing this book with a contest …

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