I’m delighted to help Sue Barr kick off her blog tour for Georgiana, book three in a series I absolutely adore! (Check out my reviews of Caroline and Catherine). Sue is here to talk about why she chose to write about the secondary characters in Pride and Prejudice, and there’s a giveaway as well. Please give her a warm welcome!
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First and foremost, thank you for kicking off the blog tour for my latest release, GEORGIANA: Pride & Prejudice continued… Book Three.
I’ve been asked why I decided to write about Pride & Prejudice’s secondary characters instead of our beloved dear couple. Especially Georgiana who had but a brief cameo in the original novel with no direct lines of conversation. The answer is a bit twisted and came from an unexpected source.
In 2014, I joined the fan fiction site, A Happy Assembly and decided to write my own Austen inspired Regency story. I’m a visual person and because of that, began to scour cover art sites to see what was available by way of Regency inspired book covers. I stumbled across a pre-made cover a beautiful red-haired woman. Instantaneously, I thought of Caroline Bingley.
All of these happen-chances coalesced with me asking, ‘Whatever happened to Caroline Bingley after her brother and Mr. Darcy became engaged to the Bennet sisters?’ From that, Caroline was born. There were two other matching covers and with no hesitation I determined they would be Catherine and Georgiana.
Whereas one question about Caroline provided me a beginning, an internal thought and a heartfelt desire provided an ending. First, when I imagined Georgiana’s history and how the family dealt with her ‘incident’ I wanted Maxwell to hear Darcy say “I can’t make this one go away”, followed by Max thinking, “What does Darcy mean by this one?” Once that little pot of conflict began a slow boil, images of Georgiana at her escritoire, quill in hand popped into my head. She’d just written, “My darling Maxwell. May I call you Maxwell, for that is how I think of you.”
Why would she be writing him and why would he be offended if she called him by his given name? Immediately, their estrangement and the reason became clear and within the hour I’d penned all of her letters which are featured near the end of the book.
I’d love to paint a picture of why Maxwell does what he does upon his discovery of Georgiana’s previous compromise, but a single blog post won’t do it justice. Besides, I want you to read ALL of the book and judge for yourself. Georgiana is available exclusively on Amazon until May 1 when she will be launched to other digital retailers.
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About Georgiana
She longs for true love…
A dowry of thirty thousand pounds places a hefty weight upon the shoulders of Miss Georgiana Darcy. Her tender heart has been broken before by a cad who cared not one whit for who she was, but as a prize to be won, and she fears no man will ever see the worth of her heart.
Duty and honor…
These are the stalwart columns which hold up the life of Maxwell Kerr, Fifth Duke of Adborough. After rescuing Miss Darcy from an inescapable compromise, an offer of marriage is as natural to him as breathing air. When he discovers this is not the first compromise she has evaded, anger becomes his faithful companion and threatens their tenuous bonds of love and respect.
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About the Author

Sue Barr
“The prairie dust is in my blood but no longer on my shoes.”
Sue Barr coined that phrase when once asked where she came from. Although it’s been over thirty-seven years since she called Saskatchewan home, her roots to that straight-lined province and childhood friends run deep. The only thing strong enough to entice her to pack up and leave was love. When a handsome Air Force pilot met this small-town girl, he swept her off her feet and they embarked on a fantastic adventure which found them settled in beautiful Southwestern Ontario when hubby retired from the military and began his second career as an airline pilot.
Sue started writing in 2009 and sold her first manuscript in 2010. For four years she was published under the pen name of Madison J. Edwards, and in 2014 began to write sweet contemporary romance under her own name. Always a reader of Regency romance, she discovered Jane Austen Fan Fiction through a childhood friend who writes under the name of Suzan Lauder. Almost immediately a question popped into her head, “Whatever happened to Caroline Bingley after her brother and Mr. Darcy became engaged to a Bennet sister?” and the “Pride & Prejudice Continued…” series was launched.
Sue is a member of Romance Writers of America and its satellite chapter, The Beau Monde. She is one course away from achieving her Professional Creative Writer’s certificate from the University of Western Ontario’s continuing study curriculum. In her spare time, she cans and preserves her own food, cooks almost everything from scratch and grows herbs to dehydrate and make into seasoning. Hubby has no complaints other than his trousers keep shrinking. At least that’s what he claims…. Oh, the kids and grandkids don’t mind this slight obsession either.
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Giveaway
Sue is generously giving away 3 ebook copies of Georgiana as part of the blog tour. You must enter through this Rafflecopter link. This is giveaway is open internationally through March 12. Good luck!
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Thank you, Sue, for being my guest today, and congratulations on your new release and blog tour!
Thanks to Anna for hosting. I actually have this on my wish-list. Thanks to Sue and her publisher for the generous giveaway. It is a lovely cover and… many of us voted over at Cover Wars until the wee hours of Sunday morning when that other book took the lead. We tried my dear but simply couldn’t pull off the win for you. However, I hope it gave you the additional notice and exposure you wanted for your book. Blessings on the launch and success of this work… book 3 in your series.
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Thank you for voting! I thought I may have brought in the win for #JAFF, but other readers have fans as well. Who knew? I hope you enter for a chance to win a copy of Georgiana, and good luck.
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I adore that she chose to write about Georgiana. I’ve wondered about what would happen to her as she matures after the Wickham incident. I hope everyone follows the tour. My post is coming soon!
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Loved all three books in the series
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sagustocox – can’t wait to read your post!
Vesper – I wuv you. Plain and simple.
Thank you both for visiting and dropping us a line.
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I am reading this now! It’s good! Congratulations on the release of another in the series.
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Thank you, Christina. I’ll ask Max’s forgiveness from you right now. He definitely steps into it in this story.
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Beautiful cover! Looking forward to this tale. Thanks for sharing! ♫
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Thank you, Jennifer. I’m glad you stopped by and for the Share on FB!
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Congratulations! As I too loved Caroline and Catherine’s book covers and stories, I have already bought ‘Georgiana’! I always love when an author takes one of the secondary characters and brings them to life! I’m looking forward to reading Georgiana’s story soon!!
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Thank you, Carole. You know how much your support and cheers mean to me. You will always be the fairy godmother to my ‘Hey Cindy’ life story (inside joke here folks).
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Hey, Sue, great to see you launching this book, your third of the pretty minor characters books (all stand alone for those wondering). I love this cover–I think Georgiana is a dead ringer for Grace Kelly and it’s only fitting, right? It’s also only fitting that you’re launching on Anna’s blog, which I love. Oh, and “Carole in Canada” is not me. Neither is “Suzan” (no Lauder). JAFF has all of us! W00t! I am the “Hey Cindy!” co-writer. And folks, Sue’s non-JAFF books are great too. Love you!
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Oh poor Georgiana, 2 compromises. I hooe the Duke wouldn’t be too mean to her!!! Thank you for the excerpt and the give-away
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Congrats on the newest publication! Looking forward to the blog tour and can’t wait to read it!
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So glad to be one of the winners! Please let me know if I need to contact anyone.
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