A thread of the worst
#JaneAusten
covers because even when they’re terrible, they’re ALL somehow brilliant.
#1
The Regency ended at least half a century ago, and Emma is totally over this shit.
#10
is actually the best Jane Austen cover ever produced. Never, in the history of cover design has someone got it so right by getting it so wrong. This edition would take pride of place on Catherine Morland’s bedside table.
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By the magic of Austen, I have a
#MissAustenInvestigates
proof & tote for one lucky winner! To enter, follow, like and RT this post.
UK only please. Ends midnight 5th Nov, and winner will be chosen and announced next day.
Good luck!
#giveaway
#BookTwitter
I don’t want to alarm anyone but yesterday my teenage daughter made me take her to Boots to buy a lip liner that was a slightly darker brown than her lip gloss.
#5
Jane Austen the fourth Bronte sister. She drove Charlotte, Emily and Anne onto the moors with her relentlessly cheerful heroines and ceaseless wisecracks.
New followers, I feel I owe you this. A thread on the very best
#JaneAusten
covers.
#1
Is a timeless classic, and the first Austen I ever had the privilege to own. Look how furious Darcy is at the audacity of this photographer ❤️🔥
Today I went to meet my lovely publishing team for lunch at Gloria’s, Shoreditch. I got their early so I ordered a sensible mocktail to show them what a professional I was. THIS is what they brought me 🤦🏼♀️
Most debut authors won’t know this simple hack but, if you go into a bookshop and ask to sign, it really helps the staff verify your identity if you dress as the cover. Look at this pro in action… I can almost forgive him for stamping on my heart several times over 🧡
I just bought this gorgeous tea dress from
@joanieclothing
. I love it, but I was debating whether to keep it or not as like most adult women I am Rubenesque around the belly and the buttons gaped. BUT then I realised it has been designed by an actual genius… 1/2
LOOK 👀 it has a secret inner facing button on the belly to combat exactly this problem. Is this what happens when women design for women? And, of course, it also has pockets. Go ahead Joanie, you can have all my money in future 👏👏👏
Emboldened by a couple of fantastic crime authors I follow on here, I sheepishly introduced myself to my local Waterstones at Bluewater, Dartford. Yesterday, I returned to this! Signed copies of
#MissAustenInvestigates
now available from
@Bluewaterstones
🥰🪶🔍
Channelling Team Featherington at the Jane Austen Festival peacock-themed summer ball! Extra proud because I made my gown and my Captain Wentworth’s jacket 🦚
I’m so excited to have signed
@NovelistJessica
for Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless Milliner. When a young woman is found dead at a ball and Jane Austen’s brother is accused, the fiercely intelligent and feisty Jane must use her intellectual prowess to clear his name.
I went to the house where
#JaneAusten
died and stumbled across P&G Wells - poss the oldest independent bookshop in the UK. Austen’s father and brothers had accounts here. Today, they stock a wonderful collection of Austen related books AND tons of cosy crime. My dream bookshop!!
If anyone’s thinking about doing
#NaNoWriMo
this year, I say go for it. Start planning now. Use it as an excuse to write from your heart. Finally tackle that mad, silly story you think is too geeky to go anywhere. Last year’s project turned out rather well for me.
When you finally make a friend who understands and enables your
#JaneAusten
obsession, but she lives on the other side of the Atlantic 😭😭😭 Have a safe flight home, Elizabeth (Felicity George) - that was one epic Austen adventure!
@LindaJenLambert
I feel she’s perfected the ‘sinister hostage taker’ voice at an early stage in her writing career. She’ll be out-writing me soon. Or, in jail.
I’m feeling like an absolute diva this morning! Thank you so much to everyone for helping me celebrate the publication of my debut novel,
#MissAustenInvestigates
- in person and by sending me your best wishes from around the world 🥰🔍🪶
My husband is convinced the only way he can do regency dress-up at the
#JaneAusten
festival is if he’s a naval officer (due to his beard). I’m therefore making him watch all 3 versions of
#Persuasion
for ‘essential research’.
A 🧵on the best
#JaneAusten
movie posters.
#1
Is it a romance, or is it a horror film about woman trying to escape her creepy stalker? Watch out Lizzie, he’s behind you!
Entering my Gainsborough era! For my debut novel, Miss Austen Investigates (out in 2 weeks!), I wanted to understand what it was like to inhabit
#JaneAusten
's world - so I made and wore my own Regency-style gowns. I also made my husband a Captain Wentworth jacket 😍 1/3
Petition to add on horseback, by post-chaise, coach and six, barouche-landau and mail coach to the options for working out journey times on Google maps, on behalf of all historical novelists.
#amwriting
Today marks 29 years since the BBC premiered the first episode of their six 55-minute episode series of Pride & Prejudice.
What was your favourite moment from the series? Was it Mr Darcy's infamous emergence from the water in front of Miss Elizabeth Bennet?
The most believable part of
#bodiesnetflix
is the police librarian who’s waited his entire career for someone to ask him to find an obscure file from a century ago in less than a minute.
My ambition in writing Miss Austen Investigates was to show
#JaneAusten
’s short but remarkable life was full of love. It is testament to the support of her friends and family that so much of Austen’s work survives for us to enjoy today. (1/3)
It’s the second half of my holiday, and I’m rolling out the big guns: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. This can’t possibly be as good as everyone says it is. Or can it?
#Hamnet
#MaggieOFarrell
#amreading
I love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school
They represent the summun of popularity and success
Those who fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting of envy
A mirror into your soul
DREAM POST!! I grew this account by sharing a pic of my current read and a cuppa to connect with other readers and writers after my previous one was locked (I posted so many messages about an Austen event, admin thought I was a bot )
#MissAustenInvestigates
#JessicaBull
1/2
Things that make my heart happy: 20 yo
#JaneAusten
, listed as a subscriber to Fanny Burney's Camilla. In 1796, Austen would have had no money of her own - so I can just imagine her persuading her father to subscribe. I feel Burney was to Austen, what Austen is to us/me.
#fangirl
Obsessed with this absolute treasure of a book, in which fashion historian, Hilary Davidson, brings to life all the jewel-like references to clothing in
#JaneAusten
’s letters: Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson. In writing
#MissAustenInvestigates
, I pored over these. 1/2
It’s my first day proof dropping for
#MissAustenInvestigates
and I’m so excited to be following in
#JaneAusten
’s footsteps and hitting the streets of Bath! First up, Waterstones on Milsom Street. 1/5
I got super confused today, as I went to put my groceries in the boot of my car, only to discover I’d already put them in there. And they’d somehow got more exciting - cream cakes! Even weirder, there was a man sitting in the driving seat. Reader, it was NOT MY CAR!
#dying
1/2
#JaneAusten
famously gave very little detail about the appearance of her characters, but let’s never forget the Price family’s ‘trollopy-looking maidservant’ Rebecca, who had the audacity to wear a flower in her hat on Sundays.
I was so proud to spot
#MissAustenInvestigates
amongst this gorgeous display at
@waterstonesbath
. My team and I wanted a cover that screamed Jane Austen meets cosy crime. I think they nailed it! ❤️🔍🪶
When I dropped my 13yo daughter off at school this morning she told me she was dreading getting the results of her creative writing test back because everything she writes makes her cringe, and that's how I know she is also going to be an author.
Mrs England by Stacey Halls. I’m still pinching myself that I share an agent with one of my writing idols. Even my mum was impressed, and that doesn’t happen very often. I just hope I can earn my place beside the rising star of historical fiction.
#MrsEngland
#StaceyHalls
@BexBookaholic
I have a club like this but it’s just me and my husband. After 15 years he still doesn’t understand what ‘silence’ means but I’m persevering.
My mother-in-law popped into Eastbourne Waterstones to carry out a little pre publication day hustle on my behalf. She’s picked up her copy and couldn’t resist telling another couple of customers about it while in store. Writers, make sure to marry into a reading family! 🤣
@HallieRubenhold
That’s so horrible, I’m sorry. The Five is an incredible powerful and important book. Women are more than the crimes committed against us.
Delighted to have arrived at the very spot from which
#JaneAusten
published her novels to talk to the
@SWWJ
as part of their 130th birthday year! Such an honour to be part of this celebration 🎉
Overheard my daughters describing someone dressing ‘like an author’. I’m gutted to discover 1) there’s a secret dress code and 2) my own children knew about it and didn’t tell me. Apparently it involves ‘ombré maxi dresses: the kind Jacqueline Wilson and English teachers wear’?
The strangest thing about reading C18th epistolary novels (Pamela, Evelina) is that young women tell their parents everything, whereas my teenager considers it a gross invasion of her privacy if I ask what she bought for lunch from the school canteen.
Dear mums of 13 year old girls, my 15 year old daughter just came back from a week away with school and sheepishly handed me a necklace she’d bought for me with her own spending money. Hang in there, it really DOES get better 🥺
In time honoured tradition, Twitter please help me choose an author pic! Tell me honestly, which of these ladies would you be most likely to purchase a Regency murder mystery from?
#WritingCommunity
(photo credit: )
I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.