Jane Odiwe Jane Austen Sequels

Happy Birthday Jane Austen! Read below for one of my favourite JA excerpts, and for a chance to win some free books and a free download. Then hop over to the next blog on the list for more treats - see below for further details. Thank you very much to  Maria Grazia of  My Jane Austen Book Club  for hosting this splendid event!!! It's wonderful to be a part of the Austen Soirée at My Jane Austen Book Club . This was an impossible task - to find a passage from all of Jane Austen's writing that could be described as my favourite. There are so many excerpts that I could pick - there truly isn't one that I love above all others, but the following is particularly dear to my heart. It's from Persuasion - chapter 19. I love the way Jane Austen lets us into Anne's head and we experience what Anne sees, hears and feels when she sees Captain Wentworth again.    Mr. Elliot was attending his two cousins and Mrs. Clay. They were in Milsom Street. It began t...

Presenting: All I want for Christmas Giveaways! I may not be able to supply any of the men above, but I am giving away Christmas goodies this week ! Today's present is a copy of Searching for Captain Wentworth - please leave your name and a contact email below to be in with a chance to win! Open Internationally - winner announced Monday 17th December ! Please come back tomorrow for another gift. Happy Christmas!

As promised, here's Chapter Two of Searching for Captain Wentworth! I hope you enjoy it. Our heroine Sophie has arrived in Bath but her Great Aunt Elizabeth's flat is not quite what she's been expecting and as she's about to discover all is not as it first seems... I am also thrilled to announce the winner of the signed copy of Searching for Captain Wentworth! Congratulations Miss Lucinda Fountain - look out for an email from me in your inbox - I hope you enjoy the book!

I'm on Victoria Connelly's website today talking about the joys of Indie publishing and all about my new book, Searching for Captain Wentworth!  I hope you'll pop over there to see what I've got to say about self-publishing as well as fantastic authors like Talli Roland, Linda Gillard and Victoria Connelly herself. Victoria has a new novella out for Christmas, Christmas with Mr Darcy! Competition! This week I'm giving away another paperback copy of Searching for Captain Wentworth .  This competition is International and open to anyone who leaves a comment below in answer to the following question.  Listen to the audio excerpt below of Chapter One from Searching for Captain Wentworth:  Who writes a letter to Sophie inviting her to stay in the family house in Bath?  Good Luck! The winner will be announced next Monday on October 15 2012 . I'm publishing some audio chapters through Soundcloud this week which I hope you will enj...

The winner of the Austenesque Extravaganza Giveaway Competition is Samantha McNulty! Congratulations! Please get in touch, Samantha, with your address details and I'll pop a copy of Searching for Captain Wentworth in the post. Thank you so much to everyone who left such lovely comments about the short story written by Juliet Archer and myself - we had great fun writing it. Here's a little audio  Excerpt from Searching For Captain Wentworth by Jane Odiwe  - I hope you enjoy it!

Review by Nancy Kelley for Indie Jane  - Please visit to enter  GIVEAWAY! Persuasion  is quite possibly my favorite of all Austen’s books, and Captain Wentworth is in a dead heat with Darcy for favorite literary hero of all time. With that background, it would be easy to think that any novel based on  Persuasion  would automatically win my good opinion, but the opposite is rather true. With something so beloved, I will only be swayed by a treatment that is truly superlative. I’m happy to say I was not disappointed in  Searching for Captain Wentworth  by Jane Odiwe. There is so much to love about this book, it’s hard for me to express it clearly–so if I jump around a bit, please forgive me. First, I love parallel story lines when they are woven together in such a way that they support each other. As Sophie jumps back and forth between the past and present, the things that have just happened to her in the other time inform her decisions whe...

The Pump Room, Bath Today I am the guest of Laura Hartness on the Calico Critic Blog . There's an exclusive extract from Searching for Captain Wentworth and I'm talking about Time Travel and the books I loved as a child. I'd love to know which were your favourites - please leave a comment on her blog! Yesterday, I was Maria Grazia's guest and she interviewed me for  My Jane Austen Book Club . If you'd like to be in with a chance of winning a signed paperback copy of Searching for Captain Wentworth do leave a comment! The day before I was Laurel Ann Nattress' guest on Austenprose  where I shared an exclusive 'audio' excerpt from my new novel. I've also been to visit Vic Sanborn on Jane Austen's World - she celebrated 500,000 hits on her blog with a giveaway-competition now closed. Tomorrow, I shall be visiting Nancy Kelley - I hope you can join me!

How exciting! It's the official publication day for Searching For Captain Wentworth- and made more exciting by the fact that I've just found out my book is on the Kindle  top 100 Amazon Bestsellers list and a hot pick in Time Travel ! I'm thrilled - thank you to all my US readers who have downloaded my novel. I hope you enjoy my book. I've had a couple of lovely reviews- A Winter's Day in Lyme-sun still shining! Five stars from Vic Sanborn -  I'll admit that I have a fondness for Ms. Odiwe's books. In this new endeavor she has outdone herself. After finishing Searching for Captain Wentworth I felt as if I had taken a trip to Bath and Lyme Regis, met Jane Austen, and been treated to a wonderful romance. Four stars from Maria Grazia-  Gifted writing makes the blend a successful, entertaining whole. You'll find yourself smiling in recognition at this lovely tale with lots of familiar quotes and characters, events from Jane Austen'...

I had such fun writing this P&P mash-up with the very lovely Juliet Archer for Austenesque Extravaganza  - I hope you enjoy it! Please read the first half on Juliet's website!  I'm celebrating the release of Searching for Captain Wentworth on Friday and giving away a copy of my book. Please leave a comment below to qualify.  Here is part two of our short story!!! A modern Mrs Bennet meets a time traveller or two from the original Pride & Prejudice …  By Juliet Archer and Jane Odiwe  Part Two What if Mr Collins was only pretending to be a vicar? That would explain the weird hat, for a start. A lunatic would think that was perfectly normal headgear for a man of the cloth. Once again, she wondered if it was wise to be alone with him. Pocketing her phone, she edged towards the door. ‘I don’t need any more photos – Lydia can check the church website or something if she needs more information. And I’ll send you an email about booking the...

I'm giving a copy of Searching for Captain Wentworth away on Misty's fabulous Book Rat Blog.  Click on the link to read all about my new book and leave a comment on her blog to be in with a chance to win. Misty's hosting a whole series of events for Austen in August - don't miss the fun!