Giveaway Emma and the Vampires by Wayne Josephson

"In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen's Emma, screenwriter Wayne Josephson casts Mr. Knightley as one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of their presence, Emma, who imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking, attempts to arrange the affairs of her social circle with delightfully disastrous results. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she's the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding a secret deep within his unbeating heart-his (literal) undying love for her... A brilliant mash-up of Jane Austen and the undead".

 "From Bela Lugosi’s portrayal of the Count in the 1931 film Dracula, to the hit 90s TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer, to the modern-day HBO series True Blood and the blockbuster book and film franchise Twilight, the vampire has evolved from a being that wreaks horror on humans to one that wreaks havoc on the affairs of the heart.

The Regency-era comedy of manners finds Jane Austen’s beloved title character, Emma Woodhouse, attempting to arrange the affairs of the young ladies and gentleman vampires, including Mr. Knightley, in her social circle with delightfully disastrous results. 

Emma and the Vampires reflects the author’s passion for retelling the great classics of literature for a modern-day audience. Josephson originally rewrote Emma for his teenage daughter, who then suggested he add vampires given their popularity in books, TV, and film.

Emma is the most popular Jane Austen novel with young adult readers, and continues to delight audiences today, including the loose adaptation of the story in 1995’s Clueless, starring Alicia Silverstone, and the 1996 film adaptation with Gwyneth Paltrow portraying Emma.

Is the mashup dead? No, it’s undead".

About The Author

Wayne Josephson received his BA from Emory University and his MBA from Wharton. After twenty years on Wall Street, he decided to pursue his long-delayed desire to write, becoming a successful screenwriter. Josephson is also the author behind four Readable Classics books, available on Amazon and bn.com. For more information, visit www.waynejosephson.com/

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Lady Veron and Her Daughter By Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

ABOUT THE BOOK:

"In an early, untitled epistolary novella (referred to as “Lady Susan”), Jane Austen introduced one of her most compelling characters – Lady Susan Vernon – an attractive and cunning widow who believes her beauty allows her to behave in selfish, devious ways. Written during the same period in which Austen produced Elinor and Marianne, “Lady Susan” also focuses on the economic and romantic plights of two heroines displaced when the family home passes to an unworthy heir. But, while Elinor and Marianne was revised and happily expanded to become Sense and Sensibility, “Lady Susan” was abandoned. Until now.

In LADY VERNON AND HER DAUGHTER: A Jane Austen Novel (Crown; October 2009), mother-daughter team Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway have taken letters from this epistolary novella and transformed them into a vivid, authentic, and more recognizably “Austen” work of fiction. In this enthralling reimagining, Lady Vernon and her daughter must navigate a society where a woman’s security is at the mercy of an entail, where love is hindered by misunderstanding, where marriage can never be entirely isolated from money, yet where romance somehow carries the day.

Both avid readers of Jane Austen, Caitlen and Jane worked in tandem to piece together LADY VERNON AND HER DAUGHTER. To do so, they reexamined Austen’s six great novels in order to reproduce her distinctive style and the fundamentals of her storytelling. The result is a delightful interpretation and a treat for fans of literature’s most beloved woman of letters."

SYNOPSIS:
Lady Vernon and Her Daughter begins with an Austenesque sentiment:

"A woman with neither property nor fortune must ward off this affliction by cultivating the beauty, brilliance and accomplishment which will blind a promising suitor to the want of a dowry and take her off the hands of a grateful family. When she is securely married, she may suspend her own improvement and turn her energies toward the domestication of her husband and the acquisition of wealthy suitors for their daughters. Still, she must never sink to complacency, but always keep sharp, for it may be her unfortunate lot to survive her spouse and she will be thrown back upon her wits once more."

Such is the plight of Lady Vernon and her daughter, Frederica. Upon the premature death of Sir Frederick Vernon, his estate passes to his younger brother and heir, Charles Vernon; Vernon chooses to regard his promises to Sir Frederick of financial support for Lady Vernon and her daughter as conditional –“only an informal understanding that Lady Vernon and her daughter would not starve.”

Penniless and homeless, Lady Vernon and her daughter are taken into the high-spirited household of their friends, the Manwarings; but, when Lady Vernon learns the particulars of her late husband’s understanding with Charles Vernon – specific promises of the amount to be settled upon herself and Frederica - she returns to the Vernon estate to confront her in-laws. When her sister-in-law’s younger brother, Reginald deCourcy, descends upon the household to get a look at “the most accomplished coquette in England,” his arrival sets off rumors of a romance between the young man and Lady Vernon. Meanwhile, in London, Frederica’s term in a finishing school, set down as a prelude to her marriage to a wealthy cousin, Sir James Martin, ends in scandal and expulsion.

As the tale moves from Sussex to Kent to London, romance, gossip, misunderstanding, two proposals of marriage and an unexpected arrival bring about surprising reversals of fortune in this skillful and witty revision of Jane Austen’s early novella, Lady Susan."

New Release, Loving Mr. Darcy: Journeys Beyond Pemberley by Sharon Lathan

September 1st 2009 Paperback

I felt it only fitting to put this one out since I am newly obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". The other day I watched the movie for the first time ever as part of my Jane Austen challenge. I fell in love with Lizzy instantly, considering we have many things in common. When I saw this book I could not pass it up even if it is a paperback. Immediately after the movie was over, I ran down and got the book from the library. I am now currently reading "Pride and Prejudice" and "The First Princess of Wales". I just could not resist the two very different stories Lizzy vs. Joan of Kent.

"Darcy and Lizzy venture away from Pemberley to journey through England, finding friends, relatives, fun, love, and an even deeper and more sacred bond along the way.
Having embarked on the greatest adventure of all, marriage and the start of a new life together, now the Darcys take the reader on a journey through a time of prosperity, enjoyment, and security. They experience all the adventures of travel, with friends
and relatives providing both companionship and complications, and with fun as their focus.
The sights and sounds, tastes and flavors of Regency England come alive. Through it all, Darcy and Lizzy continue to build a marriage filled with romance, sensuality, and the beauty of a deep, abiding love."