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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

6 days left to pre-order Write with Jane Austen on Kickstarter! We've just hit the fifth stretch goal. Level up your storytelling and style with writing lessons and exercises inspired by Jane Austen's novels. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat... #janeausten #kickstarter #writingadvice

My new book... [Image of the book Write with Jane Austen: Masterclasses with the Master Storyteller]

is for Jane Austen's 250th birthday... [Picture of Jane Austen wearing a classic conical birthday hate, while holding a gold-wrapped present.]

and is about what Jane Austen can teach us about writing.

Pre-order your own copy on Kickstarter by May 22nd, 2025.

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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Yesterday I launched my book, Write with Jane Austen, on #Kickstarter, and it funded in just 25 minutes! I am so grateful for all the support. You can still back the project and help it reach its next two stretch goals. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat... #JaneAusten #writingcommunity

Just funded on Kickstarter! Write with Jane Austen: Masterclasses with the Master Storyteller by Katherine Cowley

The Project We Love badge on Kickstarter, with a flashing, very happy looking heart.

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Verbalize.bsky.social @verbalize.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Y'all, I CONSTANTLY post Kathy Cowley's "Jane Austen Writing Lessons" with good reason: incisive, insightful, and deeply rooted in Austen. The book is nigh! Write with Jane Austen: The Book (And Classes!) by @kathycowley.bsky.social on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

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Write with Jane Austen: The Book (And Classes!)

Lessons on plot, character, and style, based on the works of Jane Austen, for writers and readers of fiction. With 50 illustrations!

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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My book HAS A COVER!!!!!! Please excused the use of excessive capitalization and punctuation. But isn't it beautiful? Pre-orders will go live soon for Write with Jane Austen on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat... #janeausten #janeausten250 #nonfiction #coverreveal

The cover for Write with Jane Austen: Masterclasses with the Master Storyteller. by Katherine Cowley. The cover features a Regency-inspired floral wallpaper which frames a piece of watercolor paper, on which are written the words of the title.

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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

My Mary Higgins Clark award nominated novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, is free this week on all e-book platforms worldwide! It's never been free before, and will probably never be free again, so now is your chance to read the book or share it with a friend who might be interested.

Free e-book: The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet

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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

I was excited, stunned, and quite a bit overwhelmed this weekend when I learned that there is now a Wikipedia page for me/my books.

The Wikipedia page for Katherine Cowley. The excerpt shown reads:

Katherine Cowley is an American author of historical mysteries, short stories, and essays. She is also a lecturer. [1]

Cowley lives in Michigan and has taught writing at Western Michigan University.[2]

Writing Awards
Cowley's debut novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, was a finalist for the 2022 Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark Award of the Edgar Awards. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Another Wikipedia excerpt from the Katherine Cowley page, which reads: Selected works
Novels
The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, (Tule Publishing, 2021, ISBN 9781953647443)
The True Confessions of a London Spy, (Tule Publishing, 2022, ISBN 9781956387230)
The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception, (Tule Publishing, 2022, ISBN 9781957748566)
Short Publications (selection)
“The Justified Fear of Snow in Jane Austen's Emma.” Jane Austen's World. Essay. 2022.
“Revising for Tone During Difficult Times.” Women Writers, Women's Books. Essay. 2022.
A Rising Generation: Women in Power in Young Adult novels (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 53, Spring 2020, p 194–198.)

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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

I take a certain pleasure in reading old books that almost no one else is reading. Also, whenever I read and love a book that has NO reviews of it on the internet, or in this case, only one negative review, I feel morally obligated to write a more detailed positive review. (1/2)

Purple and grey book with the words: Dreams in Old Norse Literature and their Affinities in Folklore by Georgia Dunhma Kelchner

"gods never figure in the dreams of persons whose faith in them is unshaken...it is doubt and disbelief which allows them to descend from their sublimity to the point of entering the human land of drams."

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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I'm starting a new series of lessons, all inspired by #JaneAusten, about writing relationships and character connections. Today's post looks at how Austen quickly establishes five separate relationship in the first few pages of Emma. www.katherinecowley.com/blog/jawl-es... #writingcommunity

Jane Austen Writing Lessons. #68: Establishing Relationships and Character Connections in Fiction

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