Make Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
Alert Janeite Joan Ellen wrote to tell us about a book deal she saw in Publisher’s Lunch (to which we subscribe, so we are ashamed to say we missed it):
Actress Emma Campbell Webster’s LOST IN AUSTEN: A Make Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, to Sarah McGrath at Riverhead, by Zoe Pagnamenta at PFD New York, in a pre-empt, for publication in early 2008, on behalf of Sam Copeland at the Robinson Agency (NA)
We have no idea what it is about, but it sounds rather intriguing. We won’t see it for a while yet, though.
July 6th, 2006 at 1:47 am
[...] Alert Janeite Laurie found some more information about Lost in Austen: A Make Your Own Jane Austen Adventure by Sarah McGrath, about which we posted not long ago. Webster’s adventure novel is a literary game that will give readers the opportunity to play at being Elizabeth Bennet, navigating their way through important and difficult decisions about love and marriage upon which the plot(s) hinges; the book will incorporate characters and landscapes from all of Austen’s novels. Webster is an actress by day; she specialized in Austen while reading English at Oxford. Riverhead will publish in early 2008. [...]