702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!

Jacke talks to D.G. Rampton, Australia's Queen of the Regency Romance, about her love for the novels of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer - and what it's like for a twenty-first-century novelist to set her novels in the early-nineteenth-century world of intelligent heroines, dashing men, and sparkling banter. Find PLUS Jacke dives into the story of a book festival gone horribly wrong, searching for signs of hope amid the literary wreckage. Additional listening: 280 Romance Novels 303 The Search for Darcy: Jane Austen, Tom Lefroy, and the World of Pride and Prejudice 535 The Australian Novelist Who Writes...