In any list of achievements for 2020, reading a book hardly seems worth mentioning. Especially if you're a voracious reader. As I was…right up until the day I started writing novels myself. Then, despairingly, I stopped reading (almost) completely. Why? Let me answer the question with a series of comments made by the illiterate devil … [Read More...] about I read a book (or the curious foibles of a writer)
Meeting Mrs Bennet
It seems 2019 is the year of serendipity. After some inadvertent Austen encounters in the UK, another one happened back home in Austria. I bumped into Mrs Bennet. (Otherwise known as actress Alex Kingston, who played Mrs B in 2008's Lost in Austen mini-series.) To be fair, this was no accident. Ms Kingston was a special guest at Vienna … [Read More...] about Meeting Mrs Bennet