Let's Get the Streamers and Celebrate...
Good morning everyone. I've got a couple of announcements today.
First, let's wish Jane Austen a happy 235th birthday today. She was born on Dec. 16, 1775, and though she died in 1817, we're going to celebrate her birthday with free e-books from Sourcebooks.
Eliza’s Daughter by Joan Aiken
The Darcys & the Bingleys by Marsha Altman
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins
The Other Mr. Darcy by Monica Fairview
Mr. Darcy’s Diary by Amanda Grange
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan
Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy by Abigail Reynolds
In addition to these great spinoffs and continuations, special editions of Austen's e-books Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park will be available for free where e-books are sold. These editions will include "legendary color illustrations of the Brock brothers, originally created to accompany the books in 1898."
****From Sourcebooks***
We apologize and have been trying to fix the problem all morning. It takes a lot of cooperation from different parties to make the offer happen and it unfortunately it took some extra time to iron out the kinks.
Let me tell you know that iBooks and Google books currently has everything correct.
Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony are currently working to get their prices adjusted. They should be correct shortly. Sourcebooks.com will also have our books and the illustrated versions available for free within the next hour!
Because of this confusion we want to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday an extra day! This offer will be good tomorrow (DEC. 17) as well. You should also check out the blog tour in honor of Austen's birthday. Here's the information.
Secondly, my husband and I have told all of our family and everyone on Facebook, and now I'm going to tell my readers. We're having a baby girl in March 2011.
Thanks to everyone who already has congratulated us. We're busy trying to find larger accommodations and get the necessities, not to mention all those doctor appointments and classes about giving birth and caring for babies. We've got a list of names, but it looks like we're leaning toward one in particular.
Since I have friends and family that read the blog, and they may want to get started early on baby shower shopping . . . I'm going to leave some links to our registries.
Target
Amazon.com
In case anyone is wondering, our theme for the baby's room is Dr. Seuss since he was so inspirational to me, especially in terms of my passion for reading and poetry.