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Jane Austen Guide eBook only $1.99 through Wednesday!

05 Monday May 2014

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The eBook for Jane Austen’s Guide to Life is just $1.99 through Wednesday, May 7th!  Thrilled about this, wanted to let you know.  Kindle, Nook, and Kobo versions are available at the discounted price.

Jane Austen's Guide to Life - paperback(And the cover you see here is from the recently-released paperback edition!)

Here’s what BookBub had to say:

Ask yourself: What would Elizabeth Bennet do? Playful and wise, this delightful book examines Jane Austen’s novels for advice. The modern-day woman will cherish this guide’s wit!

This deal only lasts for three days until May 7th — don’t miss it!

It’s been quiet here on the blog for the last six months.  I’ve been working — working!  After years of chronic illness, this is a gift and a joy.  I joined the fabulous Container Store team and am loving it.

Hoping this on-again, off-again blog will be back on soon.  Missing you.

Event in DC this Thursday

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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I’ll be discussing the book and signing copies this Thursday at 12:30 PM at the Barnes & Noble in downtown DC, just a block from Metro Center.  Come by to listen to a reading, to chat about Jane, or pick up a signed copy for yourself or friends.  Hope you can make it!

We’ll also have copies of A Walk with Jane Austen available for purchase.

(If you already own a book that you’d like to have signed, B&N has asked me to let people know that they must show a copy of a B&N receipt.)

Fabulous freebie: “Live Like Jane Austen” poster

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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So excited to share this with you!  Here we have all of Jane Austen’s good-sense advice from The Jane Austen Guide to Life: Thoughtful Lessons for the Modern Woman collected in one place, in a beautiful 8.5 x 11 poster that you can print for free.

Click on the image above to download the PDF file.

Let Austen teach you how to:

  • Live your dreams
  • Become a woman of substance
  • Find a good man
  • Marry well
  • Venture solo
  • Endure the hardest things
  • Find joy and laughter
  • … and more.

Feel free to re-post or share this PDF, provided you leave the attribution at the bottom, and link back to this site where possible.  Thanks!

Blog tour: Review and giveaway at AtticGirl.com

05 Thursday Jul 2012

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Shelly Dixon is hosting a giveaway on her blog, AtticGirl.com. Lots of great stuff there for moms!  Eight more days to enter the giveaway.

She posted a sweet review as well:

Lori has a gift with words; reading them is like sitting down and having a conversation with your best friend. (read more)

And allowed me to guest blog about Jane Austen’s Fresh Perspective:

In her writing, she loved to skewer the ridiculous, to isolate and display the character flaws of people at every level of society—the bombastic nature of Pride and Prejudice’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh, the faithless grasping of Northanger Abbey’s Isabella Thorpe, even the vanity of her dear Elizabeth Bennet.  Which is why, if she were here today, she just might rejoice at the sheer amount of absurd behavior on display. (read more)

So check out Shelly’s blog and enter to win a free book!

World Magazine review

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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World Magazine published a short review of The Jane Austen Guide to Life this week.  The article is subscribers-only, but I don’t think they’ll mind if I reprint the review here:

Lori Smith knows her Jane Austen. She draws from Austen’s fictional characters, as well as from personal letters and prayers, insights into the human condition and practical advice for young women today. In chapters ranging from “Finding a Good Man” to “Saving and Spending,” Smith mines Austen and finds gold. She grounds practical advice—”don’t let your vanity blind you” or “be the right woman”—in Austen’s novels, showing how characters like Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse had to grow and change to become women of substance. Readers will enjoy this refresher course through the novels, and the counter-cultural advice this Austen-based “guide to life” offers.

Review at Crosswalk.com

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Nice review posted at Crosswalk.com yesterday:

This book may be short, but it’s brimming with charming philosophy, poignant words of advice and witty guidance from an old friend. Smith speaks sister-to-sister, and it’s her enchanting way of communicating that makes her a trusted companion, alongside Austen. She draws examples from Austen’s life—one of solitude and substance. (read more)

 

Blog tour: Crosswalk.com

07 Thursday Jun 2012

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Crosswalk.com featured The Jane Austen Guide to Life today, with a summary of many of the life lessons from the book:

Many modern women enjoy the classic romance novels written by English author Jane Austen in the 19th century, because Austen’s astute understanding of human nature have imbued her stories with a timeless appeal. Austen, who has come to be considered a sort of patron saint of romance, was a Christian whose faith is reflected in the spiritual lessons that her novels and the story of her life can teach readers today.

Here’s some advice Austen might give you if she were alive today… (read more)

Fun events this week

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Two big events this week — first, a book signing at the beautiful Le Village Marche in Shirlington for Girls Night Out on Thursday night.  Sweets, bubbly, a jewelry show… you have to come!

Then, a great Book Fair with the DC Chapter of the Jane Austen Society this Saturday from 1-4 at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.  Seven different Austen authors will all be reading from our books, taking questions from the audience, and signing.

All the details on the new Events page.  And if you’d like to book me for an event, just drop me a note — lori AT writerlorismith (dot) com.

Update: The Thursday night event in Shirlington at Le Village Marche has been postponed due to flooding in the building, which forced the store to close. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s rescheduled!

Time.com: Jane on the Brain

04 Monday Jun 2012

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Featured today in an article on Time.com about the recent group of Austen advice books:

Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks

For Lori Smith, whose Guide to Life is her second Austen-related book, it boils down to women’s desire to find a role model who is the opposite of those presented by reality-television and its hangers-on. “[Austen] really wanted her heroines to be women of substance, which I think is an idea that is kind of lost today,” she says. “There’s so much there that’s in contrast to our own culture where we’re looking for our 15 minutes of fame.” Austen, she points out, didn’t have any desire for fame or riches.  Read more

Well, maybe she had a small desire for riches…

Excerpt: Finding Joy and Laughter

15 Tuesday May 2012

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As part of the blog tour, today I wanted to share a little excerpt with you. There are so many parts of The Jane Austen Guide to Life that I’d like to post, but this is one of my favorites–a few bits from the chapter on Finding Joy and Laughter.  Enjoy!

Finding Joy and Laughter

Jane Austen was buoyant. She lived with energy and joy. It’s impossible to read her letters and books without coming away with the sense that she was something of an irrepressible force. She laughed at herself, at the everyday world, and at everyone around her (mostly all in good fun)—and she welcomed having them all laugh at her. But if she relished laughter, there was more to that vital spirit of hers. She wrote to Cassandra of a ball at which she had “had an odd set of partners”: “I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.” So she did not “wait for enjoyment,” she simply took joy wherever she could, and as much as possible. Continue reading »

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