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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 21/04/2026

When nature imitates watercolors. Sunset over Buzzards Bay, no touch-up, no AI. #capecod

Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 27/12/2025

Writing a scene where a fae enters my character's dreams, and I'm drinking Faerie Queen tea from @fridaytea.com on a day when the boundaries between Faerie and mortal is supposed to be weakest. Am I asking for trouble? #JAFF

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 25/12/2025

"You are all to come to Pemberley at Christmas..." - Jane Austen. In 1812 there wouldn't have been any Christmas trees there and Wrest Park wasn't built yet, but I can imagine Darcy and Elizabeth here. Image of Wrest Park library. #JAFF #Austenesque

"You are all to come to Pemberley at Christmas" on an image of the Wrest Park library decorated for Christmas

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 16/12/2025

Celebrating Jane Austen's birthday by giving away free #Austenesque books- and by indulging myself in my annual re-read of Pride & Prejudice. I learn something new every time!

It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday and you get the presents! Free books: Mr. Darcy's Journey, The Darcys of Derbyshire, Conceit & Concealment, and The Darcy Brothers.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 14/12/2025

Loving the Jane Austen ornament my daughter made for me with her 3d printer! Just the thing for the 250th birthday celebrations. #Austenesque #JAFF

Ornament with Jane Austen's silhouette in a gold and black frame, with holiday lights in the background.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 27/11/2025

From Jane Austen's prayer of Thanksgiving. "Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by discontent or indifference." Here on unceded Wampanoag land, Thanksgiving has many meanings. #DayofMourning #Austenesque

Text: "Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot..." - Jane Austen. Background: The Ruspoli Family at Breakfast, 1807

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 17/11/2025

Forgive the self-promo! My cozy holiday novella, which I scribbled when the world was too dark to focus on my fantasy series, is out today. So unlike anything I've written in the last decade, but just what I needed now. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXJDB1Y1 #JAFF #PrideandPrejudice #JaneAusten

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 12/11/2025

A bit of pink #aurora peeking through over the trees here on Cape Cod!

Small pink glow over a line of trees, with tree branches in the foreground

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 18/10/2025

A glorious sunset to celebrate No Kings Day!

Clouds highlighted with orange and red at sunset

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 12/10/2025

Interesting piece of trivia for writers of #Regency or #JAFF - "Etiquette decreed that gloves were one of the few gifts which a gentleman could with propriety present to a lady who was not his wife." Plot bunny, anyone? #downtherabbithole collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120114...

Printed glove, 1800-1820, with 'Venus y las tres Gracias', from the V&A website

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 08/10/2025

An amazing sunset over Buzzards Bay. Completely unenhanced. Pure glory of nature.

A red sunset over Buzzards Bay in the distance.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 01/07/2025

Sweating from the heat, or just in a continual state of inelegance? Thinking of all those dealing with heat in Europe and the UK. "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." - Jane Austen #heatwave #Austenesque

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." - Jane Austen Text on background image of the garden at Jane Austen's House in Chawton, UK

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 02/06/2025

My Austenesque gaslamp fantasy trilogy, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mage, has decided to grow up to be a tetralogy. Which is a bit of a surprise to me, but the author's always the last to know! News ad an outtake at www.pemberleyvariations.com/2025/06/02/n.... #JAFF #gaslamp #historicalfantasy

Three overlapping book covers for Spellbound at Pemberley, The Magic of Pemberley, and The Guardians of Pemberley by Abigail Reynolds. Each has a Regency woman's figure from the back with magic swirls and a Regency-era background.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 25/05/2025

It's emergence day for the Brood XIV cicadas on Cape Cod! A little late because of the cold spring, but still amazing. #bugsky #invertebrate #falmouth #capecod

Newly molted cicada clinging to its molt

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 11/03/2025

TFW your books finally reach the end of their KU term and you can make them wide and break the amaz*n straitjacket! I hate everything that's happening, but I'm so glad people are now willing to buy books elsewhere.

Picture of 3 book covers by Abigail Reynolds - "Now available Everywhere - A Matter of Honor and Conceit & Concealment. Leaving KU 3/23: The Price of Pride."

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 28/01/2025

Feuerzangenbowle! We had to cancel our family New Years' Eve tradition because of a critically ill cat, but since 2025 desperately needed a reboot, we did it tonight. A traditional German holiday drink with a rum-soaked sugar loaf set on fire over mulled wine.

A flaming Zuckerhut (German sugar loaf) over a pot of spiced mulled wine with sliced lemons and oranges

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 21/01/2025

Look for yourself. It was there on January 7.

The constitution on the White House website in the Wayback machine

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 20/01/2025

For #onlybeautifulthings day, here's a winter sunset over Buzzards Bay.

Pink, orange, and purple sunset behind winter trees with a distant view of the bay

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 05/01/2025

TFW when someone gives you a tea you know you won't like, but you drink it to be polite and end up LOVING it and drinking it every day and now you need to order more.... Gingerbread House from @fridaytea.com. Scrumptious.

Teacup and bag of tea labeled Friday Afternoon Tea: Gingerbread House

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 23/12/2024

What an amazing opening. I read it, stared at it, studied it, read it again. And then I gobbled down the rest The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Perry. What a treat! Definitely among the best of the year, probably an all-time personal favorite. Wonderful academic historical fantasy.

First page of book with text: In the end, it was four words that changed the course of our lives and the history of the world. Perhaps it wasn't really so surprising. They were, after all, the most important words in any language.
"What are you reading?"

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 16/12/2024

Happy 249th Birthday to Jane Austen! Next year's a big birthday, Miss Austen, but don't let it trouble you - you've aged beautifully! Image of Jane Austen from the freehand embroidery of my multi-talented German translator, Nicola Geiger.

Happy 249th Birthday! Jane Austen 16 December 1775. Image of embroidery of Austen's silhouette surrounded by wildflowers.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 11/12/2024

And here's proof that I'm a fan - and that it's a very, very small world, since I gather you've already know my daughter @keahirada.bsky.social. Author, daughter, books, and an ear cuff you'll recognize! My earrings are from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social, too.

Two women, mother and daughter. Mother is holding the books Spellbound at Pemberley and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, and the daughter is pointing to her earcuff.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 07/12/2024

I'm writing a scene that takes place in the Crimson Drawing Room of Carlton House, the over-the-top, opulent mansion of the Prince Regent. Income inequality at its finest! Lady Catherine de Bourgh feels quite at home. #JAFF #amwriting #regency

Carlton House: The Crimson Drawing Room 1816 by Charles Wild - a colored engraving of an opulent room with crimson swags and curtains, gilded furniture and ceiling, and a giant chandelier.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 01/12/2024

Never enough tea! My daughter and I made our own tea advent calendar this year using sample bags from Teabos, heavy on single-origin Darjeeling. Today's was a fruity Jungpana Spring Chinary Black. Light and appealing! It's going to be a tasty month.

A cup of amber-colored tea and sample bag of tea.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 28/11/2024

"Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot, that we may not deserve to lose them by discontent or indifference." – Jane Austen Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.

“Give us a thankful sense of the blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot...” – Jane Austen printed over a painting of members of the Ruspoli family breakfasting in their Italian palazzo, 1807, artist unknown

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 24/11/2024

Trope: when you can't decide if you're fighting or cuddling. Kinda like my characters today!

A fluffy orange cat and a sleek cat half-wrestling, half-cuddling.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 21/11/2024

Now today's #WIPSnips word is right up my gaslamp alley! From the upcoming third book of my Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mage trilogy, fantasy with a Jane Austen flavor. #amwriting #JAFF #writingcommunity

Darcy took a cautious step forward. “Welcome, Mother. You fainted by the gatehouse, and they brought you here.”

Lady Anne visibly collected herself. “I am sorry to have caused such trouble.” She sat up and carefully swung her legs off the settee. Of course she would hate to look like an invalid.

“As long as you are well, I am happy,” he said mechanically. Turning to Quickthorn, he asked, “What now?”

“I will try asking her the same question that caused her to swoon,” the dragon said. “You have bindings in your mind. Who did this to you?”

Lady Anne paled, but she raised her chin, her face contorted in an odd grimace. In a low, bitter voice, one that would have cut ice, she said, “My sister Catherine, of course.”

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 20/11/2024

Today's #WIPSnips word is 'worth.' Here's a snippet from my upcoming Austenesque gaslamp fantasy, The Guardians of Pemberley. Hope it's, um, worthy! #JAFF #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingprompts

“Have you anything to trade for food?” the fae asked.

Of course she did not; Elizabeth had nothing but the clothes she wore. Perhaps that was worth something, though. Georgiana claimed the lesser fae were fascinated by the seashell collection in the library.

She touched the nacreous button on her chest. “I have a button made from the shell of strange creature from the South Seas, but that is worth more than mere food. It shimmers with all colors of the rainbow when the light falls upon it.”

Was she actually daring to bargain with a fae?

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 14/11/2024

I've fallen behind on #WIPSnips lately, but here's one from book 3 of my Austenesque gaslamp fantasy, The Guardians of Pemberley. #amwriting #Novelember #writesky #JAFF

Elizabeth’s eyes widened. “Granny helped you?”

“Yes, though not without some disagreement,” Darcy said.

“Did she disapprove of you coming here?”

He paused. What had the old lady been angry about? He probed at that odd empty spot in his memory until he found something. “She wanted me to wait longer before I came after you.” That had been impossible, of course. He reached out a finger to trace the line of Elizabeth’s cheekbone, as if he could make the dark circles under her eyes disappear and bring the sparkle back to them. Once again she was suffering because of him.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 11/11/2024

Fluffy white cat (tm) is glad to see you here!

Fluffy white cat perched on a pink sweater

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 05/11/2024

Pfeffernusse would like to remind you to breathe, drink plenty of fluids, and don't forget to eat. And no, she's not giving me my sweater back.

Fluffy white cat with orange tail curled up on a pink sweater

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 05/11/2024

Pfeffernusse is reporting for duty!

White cat with fluffy orange tail and extended paws

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 02/11/2024

The world has no compassion on my poor nerves this week, but at least there's Mrs. Bennet's Nerve Tonic tea and Macha the Tea Dragon from @fridaytea.bsky.social. Delicious, soothing - and snuggly! I can't wait to try my new oolongs, too.

A plushy tea dragon, a cup of golden tea, and a bad of Mrs. Bennet's Nerve Tonic from Friday Afternoon Tea

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 11/10/2024

Joining the crowd. We were clouded over for the big show in the spring, so this is so exciting! Cape Cod, MA

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 13/08/2024

The sun may be hiding, but it's still there.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 03/08/2024

My @romancingthevote.bsky.social auction loot - a custom vector graphic by @dabookdragon.bsky.social. I asked for a dragon with a Regency woman, expecting a basic outline for a $25 BIN. She made me a stunningly detailed 3D beauty! Going to donate extra because this is worth way, way more!

Book promo graphic for Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mage series with a red dragon and a Regency lady graphic in the center, and book covers for The Magic of Pemberley and Spellbound at Pemberley on either side.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 08/07/2024

As Jane Austen said, "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." Definitely feeling the inelegance today! #JaneAusten #amwriting

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. -Jane Austen Words are on a background of the garden at Jane Austen's House in Chawton.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 13/06/2024

Confused by the rapid changes in the audiobook market? Author Rebecca Hefner will talk on Marketing Audiobooks Wide at the Romancing SFF Meetup 6/16 11am PT. Come and connect w/ your fellow authors! events.sfwa.org/events/roman... #writingcommunity #romancelandia #sff

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 17/04/2024

@sfwa.bsky.social and Nebula members! Come get cozy at the Romancing SFF Monthly Meetup. Sarah Beth Durst will explore the rise of cozy fantasy and how to write a joyful story, followed by a chance to chat with your fellow authors. #romancelandia #sff events.sfwa.org/events/roman...

Romancing SFF Monthly Meetup with Sarah Beth Durst Saturday, April 20 @11am PT. For SFWA Members & Nebula Conference Participants.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 16/04/2024

Now I desperately want one for my Regency gaslamp dragon! The cat already has her own fainting couch.

Fluffy white cat curled up on a fainting couch with a dragon on a book titled Spellbound at Pemberley

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 08/04/2024

Tonight's pre-eclipse sunset was very fleeting - this stage lasted only about 3 minutes - but spectacular. “There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.” ― Jo Walton

A bright orange-red multi-layered sunset reflected in Buzzards Bay

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 14/03/2024

@sfwa.bsky.social and Nebula members! SFWA's Romancing SFF Monthly Meetup features urban fantasy author Meghan Ciana Doidge for a Q&A about cultivating a core readership, expanding into selling audio direct, and much more. events.sfwa.org/events/roman...

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 08/02/2024

bsky’s open, quote one picture of your cat(s) to promote your cat(s)

Long haired white cat with cream Van markings sitting in an antique upholstered rocker

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 04/01/2024

Do you write at the intersection of romance and SFF? Join us at #HEAQuest on 1/20/94 for live panels with editors, authors, and writing coaches ready to help romance your book. And networking! events.sfwa.org/hea-quest/ #romancelandia #SFF

HEA Quest: A special event. Do you write at the intersection of romance, fantasy, and sci-fi? Online-only, 3 expert panels, author networking. Join us! events.sfwa.org/hea-quest January 20, 2024

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 03/12/2023

My very last #WIPSnips for this book, since it's not going to be a WIP as of tomorrow. Can't wait to start sharing the second book! #romancelandia #gaslamp #amwriting #janeausten

As the crackling twigs and crunching leaves of the lynx’s passage faded, Elizabeth stripped off her gloves and touched her husband’s face, the only exposed skin on his body. “William, are you there?”
There was a sudden tug on her Talent, like that of young plants seeking nourishment, but this was stronger, a deep thirst for her magic, like an empty well. Concerned, she let her Talent flow into Darcy. It was a strange intimacy, like being inside his mind, so different from their usual interaction. But this time she felt only the land.

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Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net · 27/10/2023

Eastham is a tiny village near me with a mighty library that does amazing programming. Case in point: free writing classes with the likes of @oliviawaite.bsky.social and @premeemohamed.com, starting tomorrow. Did I mention free and on Zoom? Sign up at easthamlibrary.org/so-you-want-...

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