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I'm having a lovely time at the Jane Austen Festival catching up with friends Juliet Archer and Abigail Reynolds and watching all the fun! Yesterday I went to watch the costumed Promenade which assembled in Queen Square and attended the Festival Fayre - everyone was very gracious about letting me photograph them! I hope you enjoy the pictures. Tomorrow, as part of my blog tour for Searching For Captain Wentworth I shall be Laura Gerold's guest on Laura's Reviews - I hope you can join me! Jane Smith Deisgn - www.janesmithdesign.co.uk Author, Lauren Nixon Matthew Anderson Cloth to Costume www.clothtocostume.com Hand Made Period Clothes www.sarcenett.co.uk Juliet Archer Abigail Reynolds and Me Jackie Herring, Festival Director, (right) with a friend Tim Bullamore - Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine www.virginiacreeper.co.uk Dressmake...

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!

I'm having a lovely and very busy day! The white gate in Sydney Gardens Laurel Ann Nattress invited me to guestblog on her wonderful Austenprose blog and I really wanted to do something a little different this time. I discovered Soundcloud the other day and it means you can record excerpts or readings - whole books for that matter - and then share them. The technology is simple - I even managed to record it on my phone - I'm not a great fan of listening to myself, I must admit, but I hope you enjoy my efforts! I've always enjoyed reading aloud. Having a younger sister and brother meant I did a lot of it in my youth and then I had three children who loved listening to endless books and stories. I was always volunteering for reading in Assembly at school - it's something I love doing so I hope you get a chance to listen. I'm reading from my new book, Searching for Captain Wentworth! The Jane Austen Centre I've written a new article for the Jane Au...