I would like to welcome Sophia Thorsen to my blog. Sophia is an ardent admirer of Jane Austen's works. You can learn more about this budding authoress at the end of her guest blog.
Firstly I want to thank Mary Simonsen for allowing me
to write this little blog entrée. Thank you, Mary! And brilliant work on all
your works!
As you all know, 2013 is the 200th year of
the publication of Miss Austen’s second book, namely, Pride and Prejudice. This year has already started off with the promised
publication of Shannon Winslow’s second book, the sequel to The Darcys of
Pemberley called Return to Longbourn and the next book from Abigail Reynolds.
Meantime in the musical world, it is also the 200th year of Strauss
and Wagner. Therefore, there is much to look forward to during the year, and
then there is the annual Jane Austen Festival in September which I am personally
attending.
My year has started with writing my
very first serious book, co-authored by my friend Laura Hannah Russell. My year
also presents me with the beginning of half a year stay at a writing school,
where I am to learn how to put a book together, with text, cover, and how to
make it a real book. And now I am to write a blog for two of my favorite
authoresses, this blog and the one for Mrs. Tiller Cole during the next few
weeks, hopefully.
Pride and Prejudice is my favorite of all Miss
Austen’s completed works. My love of Austen started funnily enough with another
brilliant woman author, namely Victoria Holt, author of Daughter of Deceit and many other brilliant books. Victoria Holt’s books was the first step on my
journey towards being a romantic at heart, as well as a lover of Austen’s
works, and a young woman with a thing for Fitzwilliam Darcy and almost anything
Pride and Prejudice.
Ever since I saw Keira and Matthew in the 2005 version
of Pride and Prejudice, I have been a true Austen lover. My favorite characters
from Miss Austen are definitely the two lead characters of Darcy and Elizabeth. The first time I read P&P in 8th grade, I didn’t understand
the underlying meaning in the conversation that Miss Austen used since English
isn’t my native tongue, but as I got older and understood the wit and feelings
of the characters, I began loving Austen’s works and read all her completed
works.
In 2007/2008 I joined as a member on fanfiction.net, where
I began reading “what if” fiction of Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, and
many more. Here I had my first encounter with Mr. Darcy personally, where he
began talking to me and gave me ideas, a lot of them! So I began writing and
have done it ever since. This autumn I was asked to join a group on Facebook called “Austen Authors” and here I meet Mary Simonsen, herself, for the second
time, since I wrote her a review on her book, Searching for Pemberley, which
is a brilliant book! Meanwhile I have begun to know a lot of other authors,
namely Abigail Reynolds, Jack Caldwell, P. O. Dixon, Sharon Lathan and many
more. I just want to thank all of those amazing authors who write all these
different sequels to Pride and Prejudice, and thank them for a great year!
Thank you again for hosting me, Mary!
About Sophia: Sophia is a
native of Denmark and will graduate from college in July 2013. She is currently
a student at the School of Creative Arts (Journalism, Author Writing, Game
Academy, Event, DIY, etc.). She is the author of
several short stories on fanfiction.net, including “The Masque” (P&P), “A Little
Lizzie and Darcy” (P&P), “The Love of a Young Princess” (Romeo and Juliet),
and the newly written; “Harry and the Three Ghosts” (Harry Potter, a H/HR
story).
She is writing a
book with her good friend, Laura Hannah Russell, that they have called “Power
and Love,” a Pride and Prejudice sequel. It is set in 1955, and William J.
Darcy has just been elected to Prime Minister in the United Kingdom.
Sophia loves to
write and read and to spend time with her friends. She is hoping to get into
Copenhagen’s Writing School after Vallekilde (School of Creative Arts).
