Meet the Characters: Charles and Evelyn

We’re moving on to book two of my Other Pens series this week. You’ve met these characters already if you’ve read Henry: To Prove Himself Worthy since both of these characters are good friends with the main characters in book one.

This is how I like to build series. Each book is a stand alone, complete romance, but what happens in earlier books lays the foundation for and adds to the fictional world in which the characters live.

I like reading, and therefore, writing, series that are like this since it really gives me a feel for a place and society/group of friends or family that I might wish were real enough to visit. So when, I say, “step into their world” at the end of this little promo video I made for the series, I hope you really do feel like you are doing just that when your read any of my books!

Now, back to Charles and Evelyn, also known as Mr. Edwards and Miss Barrett. Let’s step into their world as they are at a play in chapter 3 of Charles: To Discover His Purpose.

You’ll notice some other familiar faces – Aunt Gwladys, Constance, Henry, Trefor – in this partial scene because everything that happened in the last book is what this book is building on.

And, I have another fun addition to the end of this post like I did last time. It’s another video but much longer.

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Meet the Characters: Henry and Constance

It will come as no surprise to those who have been readers of my stories for a while that I do not just write Austen-inspired stories that reimagine Austen characters in new places and situations. I do write those kinds of stories, but I also like to develop my own characters to insert into Austen-inspired stories and, of course, to populate my own original stories.

My Other Pens series is one that combines a few of Austen’s characters, as reimagined to some extent by me, and many original characters. This is a series where we step off of the last page of Mansfield Park and into Henry Crawford’s world as it continues past Austen’s novel.

Did you know?

The Other Pens series title comes from the first line of the final chapter of Mansfield Park:

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

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Wordless Wednesday: Le Rouët à Filer

Posted on YouTube by RegencyDancesOrg with this note:
The Duke of Wellington's Dancers dancing the cotillion 'Le Rouët à filer' (the Spinning Wheel) at Townhill Park House on 28th June 2016 during a dress rehearsal. From XXIV New Cotillons, 1768, by James Longman. Music performed by The Birmingham Baroque Collective. Note the feeling of controlled perpetual motion.

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“Ah! Do we have more dancers?” The slight, blonde-haired master cried in delight, clapping his hands together.

“Miss Elizabeth, this is Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes, Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”

from Delighting Mrs. Bennet

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Wordless Wednesday: Love and Friendship (Regency Dance)

RegencyDanceOrg. “Love and Friendship.” YouTube, YouTube, 16 Aug. 2017, youtu.be/y9BoqhqkERA.

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“Talking of books while dancing, Mr. Darcy?” She playfully chided him as they left the dance floor.

“Too mundane?” He queried in reply. “Would you rather canvas the weather or the flower arrangements?”

— Confounding Caroline

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