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Welcome to Lost Opinions

Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea (or brandy) and enjoy an excursion into the writing world of Mark Brownlow:

Cake and Courtship coverJoin Mr Bennet as he plays an unwitting Cupid to a young Regency pair in the novel Cake and Courtship and stars in a new short story: A Third Proposal.

Or join Charlotte Collins as she tackles the troubles of the Hunsford villagers in the novellas The Lovesick Maid and The Darcy Ring.

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Recent missives:

  • Introducing “A Third Proposal”
  • Season’s greetings
  • Meeting Jane (almost)
  • “A male writer needs to be…aware of the dangers of writing female characters”
  • A Map of Hunsford
  • Colonel Brandon’s emails
  • Introducing “The Darcy Ring”
  • Marianne Dashwood’s emails
  • “Austen wrote of strong women who were ahead of their day”
  • Charlotte Collins versus the World Cup
  • “Lots of my writing happens when I’m not writing”
  • On reviews and spiders
  • “I’ve always loved 18th century language”
  • Not a writer’s paradise

Introducing “A Third Proposal”

A Third Proposal cover

Sometimes all it takes is a few pages to tell a story. And so it is with A Third Proposal, a vignette from the life of Mr Bennet as he returns to Meryton from a trip to London.

All is not well at Longbourn and Netherfield. But who’s to blame? And can Mr Bennet save the day with his wit and wisdom?

This quick winter’s tale stars our beloved head of the Bennet family, his daughter, Elizabeth, and his prospective son-in-law, Mr Darcy.

There’s a cameo from another Austen character, too, inspired by a suggestion from one of my readers. But I won’t spoil the surprise.

This is my first foray into the short story format with a (dare I say) rom-com approach.

In the meantime, work is underway on the second book of Mr Bennet’s Memoirs. As a writer, it’s like meeting an old friend again and falling back into conversation as if the intervening months were but a day.

Oh, and a little belated, but it needs saying: happy 2019!

Colonel Brandon’s emails

Since I was doing Marianne’s emails, it seemed only right to do Colonel Brandon’s at the same time. The Sense and Sensibility story retold from our dour bachelor’s perspective:

Colonel Brandon's emails

Food for thought

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one
Terry Pratchett

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