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Handsome…

Just posted this over at AustenQuotes, but wanted to share here, too.  For all the Matthew Macfadyen fans out there. To be fair, this is not a saying Jane Austen came up with, but one that was in use already, and one she used jokingly in a letter to her sister about their neighbor, James…

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Jane Austen’s Self-publishing Success (and what we can learn from it)

Did you know?  Jane Austen was self-published.  Yes!  Can you imagine?  Jane Austen — one of our Best Writers Ever — could not get a publisher to take a chance on her.  And not just for her first book.  Three of the four books published during her lifetime were self-published.  (I must thank Juliette Wells…