Miranda Liasson, Author at Miranda Liasson Romance Author

Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest–Vote till Feb. 28

By Miranda Liasson on Saturday, Feb 19, 2011 | 0 comments

Do you love Jane Austenesque fiction? There are 87 short stories now posted by talented unpublished authors at pemberley.com. The stories are "inspired by, or based upon, Jane Austen, her novels, characters, letters, philosophies of life and/or love." They are all wonderfully creative and all of them could not be more different! Please stop by and vote [...]

Two Darcys, Two Proposals

By Miranda Liasson on Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011 | 0 comments

I have a line in my short story for the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest that harkens back to Darcy's second proposal in Pride and Prejudice. My line, spoken by a very contemporary British man, the hero (so to speak) of my story, is: "I can't stop thinking about you. But one word from you [...]

Voting Opens Today for the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest

By Miranda Liasson on Monday, Feb 14, 2011 | 0 comments

Welcome to my blog! I am a historical romance writer journeying on the pathway to publication. Today, the Jane Austen Made Me Do It Short Story Contest opens for voting. It is sponsored by The Republic of Pemberley, a large site with a wealth of Austen information (which also includes full texts of all her novels), and [...]

Portraits of Jane Austen

By Miranda Liasson on Monday, Feb 14, 2011 | 0 comments

In my short story, The Lost Portrait of Jane Austen, I imagined that an artist painted her a proper portrait. But in real life, Jane Austen never sat for a formal portrait. (In her family of 5 brothers and 1sister, all her brothers except her handicapped brother George had formal portraits. Cassandra had a silhouette [...]