VJA interviews

Have you missed a Vicariously Jane Austen interview? Find it below! Also check out bios on Austen spinoff authors below that.

Interviews (arranged by last name):

Brenna Aubrey, winner of Jane Austen Made Me Do It contest, author of the Broken Oaths saga

Stephanie Barron, author of 11 Austen mysteries and Jane and the Canterbury Tale

Raquel Sallaberry Briao, author of the Jane Austen em Portugues site

Colette Chimel: A Buckeye Girl Reads blogger explains how she started her book reviewing blog

Barbara Tiller Cole: Fitzwilliam Ebenezer Darcy

Amanda Grange, author of Mr. Darcy’s Diary and Mr. Darcy, Vampyre

Jane Austen blogger Maria Grazia

Jen Karsbaek, author of Devourer of Books blog

Nancy Kelley talks about IndieJane.org, Austen Aspirations and His Good Opinion

Sharon Lathan, author of Miss Darcy Falls in Love

Janet Mullany, author of Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion

Laurel Ann Nattress, author/editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It

Jane Odiwe, author of Mr. Darcy’s Secret, Willoughby’s Return, Lydia Bennet’s Story

Alexandra Potter, author of Me and Mr. Darcy

Patrice Sarath, author of The Unexpected Miss Bennet

Lev Raphael, Huffington Post blogger going on tour in Germany

Laurie Viera Rigler, author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Mary Simonsen and her latest book, Mr. Darcy’s Bite

Craft blogger Jane Skoch (on Twitter as MaidenJane)

Maya Slater, author of The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

Juliette Sobanet, author of Chocolate for Writers and Sleeping with Paris

Scott Southard, Author of A Jane Austen Daydream

Lauren Willig, author of the Pink Carnation series and a story in Jane Austen Made Me Do It

 

Jane Austen authors:

Laurel Ann Nattress – editor of Jane Austen Made Me Do It. Visit Laurel Ann at her blog Austenprose – A Jane Austen Blog, on Twitter as @Austenprose, and on Facebook as Laurel Ann Nattress.

Pamela Aidan – author of “The Riding Habit” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman series. Visit Pamela at her website Wytherngate Press, on Twitter as @Pamela_Aidan, and on Facebook as Pamela Mogen.

Elizabeth Aston – author of “The Ghostwriter” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Mr. Darcy’s Daughters and five further historical novels about the family of Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy, as well as a contemporary romantic comedy, Writing Jane Austen. Visit Elizabeth at her website Elizabeth Aston, on Twitter as @Elizabeth_Aston, and on Facebook as Elizabeth Aston.


Brenna Aubrey – author of “The Love Letter” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. It is the Grand Prize winner of the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Shorty Story Contest. Visit Brenna at her website Brenna Aubrey, on Twitter as @BrennaAubrey, and on Facebook as Brenna Aubrey.

Stephanie Barron – author of “Jane and the Gentleman Rogue” in in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of eleven Jane Austen mysteries, including Jane and the Canterbury Tale. Visit Stephanie at her website Author Stephanie Barron. 

Carrie Bebris – author of “The Chase” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mysteries. Carrie also writes for Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine and other publications. Visit Carrie at her website Carrie Bebris.

Jo Beverely – author of “Jane Austen and the Mistletoe Kiss” in in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of 34 historical romances. Visit Jo at her website Jo Beverley, on Twitter as @JoBeverley, and on Facebook as Jo Beverley.

Diana Birchall – author of “Jane Austen’s Cat” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma and the story collection Mrs. Elton in America. Visit Diana at her blog Light, Bright and Sparkling, on Twitter as @DianaBirchall, and on Facebook as Diana Birchall.

Monica Fairview – author of “Nothing Less Than Fairy-land” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of The Other Mr. Darcy and The Darcy Cousins. Visit Monica at her website Monica Fairview, on Twitter as @Monica_Fairview, and on Facebook as Monica Fairview.

Amanda Grange – author of “Mr. Bennet Meets His Match” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Mr. Darcy’s Diary, Captain Wentworth’s Diary and Colonel Brandon’s Diary. Visit Amanda at her website Amanda Grange, on Twitter as @HRomanceUK, and on Facebook as Amanda Grange.

Syrie James – author of “Jane Austen’s Nightmare” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen,  The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë, and Dracula, My Love. Visit Syrie at her website Syrie James, on Twitter as @SyrieJames, and on Facebook as Syrie James.

Janet Mullany – author of “Jane Austen, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Jane and the Damned and Emma, Little to Hex Her, in the anthology Bespelling Jane Austen headlined by Mary Balogh. Her most recent book is Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion. Visit Janet at her website Janet Mullany, on Twitter as @Janet_Mullany, and on Facebook as Janet Mullany.

Jane Odiwe – author of “Waiting: A story inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Effusions of Fancy, Lydia Bennet’s Story, Wiloughby’s Return, and Mr. Darcy’s Secret. Visit Jane at her website Austen Effusions, at her blog Jane Odiwe – Jane Austen Sequels, and on Twitter as @JaneOdiwe.

Beth Pattillo – author of “When Only a Darcy Will Do” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Jane Austen Ruined My Life, Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart and The Dashwood Sisters Tell All. Visit Beth at her website Beth Pattillo, on Twitter as @bethpattillo, and on Facebook as Beth Pattillo.

Alexandra Potter – author of “Me and Mr. Darcy, Again…” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Me and Mr. Darcy, for which she won the Jane Austen New Fiction award in 2007. Visit Alexandra at her website Alexandra Potter.

Myretta Robens – author of “The Mysterious Closet: A Tale” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She co-founded the Republic of Pemberley website in 1997 and who still runs the site, which is now a major Jane Austen destination on the web, drawing 150,000 unique visitors each month. Visit Myretta at her websites Myretta Robens, The Republic of Pemberley and Heroes and Heartbreakers, on Twitter as @pemberleydotcom and @Myretta, and on Facebook as Myretta Robens and The Republic of Pemberley.

Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway – co-authors of “What Would Austen Do?” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. Jane Rubino and her daughter, Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, are the co-authors of Lady Vernon and Her Daughter, a reconstruction of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan. Jane and Caitlen are currently developing What Would Austen Do? into a full-length novel. Visit Jane and Caitlen at their website Janetility, on Twitter as @LadyVernonBook, and on Facebook as Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway.

Maya Slater – author of “Letters to Lydia” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy. Visit Maya at her website Maya Slater.

Margaret C. Sullivan – author of “Heard of You” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World. Visit Margaret at her website Tilneys and Trapdoors, at her blog AustenBlog, on Twitter as @mcsullivan, and on Facebook as Margaret C. Sullivan.

Adriana Trigiani – author of “Love and Best Wishes, Aunt Jane” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. Visit Adriana at her website Adriana Trigiani, on Twitter as @AdrianaTrigiani, and on Facebook as Adriana Trigiani.

Laurie Viera Rigler – author of “Intolerable Stupidity” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. You can visit Laurie at her website Jane Austen Addict, on Twitter as @austen_addict, on Facebook as Laurie Viera Rigler, and watch Sex and the Austen Girl on Babblegum.com

Lauren Willig – author of “A Nightmare at Northanger” in Jane Austen Made Me Do It. She is also the author of the Pink Carnation series, which follows the adventures of a series of Napoleonic-era spies in their attempts to thwart Bonaparte and avoid Almack’s Assembly Rooms. Visit Lauren at her website Lauren Willig, and on Facebook as Lauren Willig.

More Austen Authors (more info coming soon!)

4 Responses to “VJA interviews”

  1. Irene Aprile October 13, 2011 at 5:34 pm #

    We can’t forget Abigail Reynolds! Author od “Fitzwilliam Darcy: The last man in the world”, “Mr.Darcy’s undoing”, “Mr. Darcy’s obsession” and other Pemberley’s Variation!!!

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  2. Carolyn Crist October 13, 2011 at 6:11 pm #

    Too true! I definitely don’t have the majority of Austen authors on here .. it’s a work in progress. Bring on the comments, everyone, and I’ll keep adding more!

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  3. Ebbie October 15, 2011 at 2:34 pm #

    My absolute favorite was What Would Austen Do? I thought it was original and very funny – it says they are making it into a YA novel. Sounds great.
    Other kudos – The Chase, Mr. Bennet Meets His Match and Jane Austens Nightmare.

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  4. Carolyn Crist October 15, 2011 at 7:19 pm #

    Ebbie, thanks for your input! I’ll definitely put those up soon. This reminds me that I need to keep adding more. Thanks 🙂

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