Just in time for Jane Austen’s birthday on Thursday (happy 235th, Jane!), Austenprose has announced the Jane Austen Made Me Do It short story contest. As some of you may know, I have a short story, “A Night at Northanger” coming out this summer, in an anthology edited by Laurel Ann of Austenprose. What you…

I can now officially announce that I will be contributing a short story to an Austen-inspired anthology to be published in 2011. The anthology contains contributions from such well known Austenites as Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club), Stephanie Barron (the Jane Austen mysteries) and Elizabeth Aston (Mr. Darcy’s Daughters), among others. I…