What
would my life have been like without Jane Austen?
I
never would have met Colin Firth…
…at Madame Tussauds wax museum in
London! And I never would have set one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever written
with the waxen Firth in my just-released book UNDRESSING MR. DARCY. Nor would I
have had the fun of writing about an English “Mr. Darcy” who travels to America
to promote his book by taking off his historical clothing at Jane Austen
festivals. Consequently my American heroine wouldn’t have run off to England
chasing after him, and she never would have visited London, Chawton and Bath. I
can’t imagine!
Really, if it weren’t for Jane Austen,
I don’t think I would have had a lifelong crush on Mr. Darcy, Mr. Tilney, and
England itself.
Bless you, Jane Austen on your 238th
birthday! Your writing keeps inspiring, 200 years down the pea-gravel road!
Karen
