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This popped up on FB and I recall it was discussed in one of the past years.

Can anyone recall the title of the modern where Elizabeth dies in a crash, Darcy gets hooked on drugs, cleans himself up and then dies too?

Sam wrote: "This popped up on FB and I recall it was discussed in one of the past years.

Can anyone recall the title of the modern where Elizabeth dies in a crash, Darcy gets hooked on drugs, cleans himself u..."

Good grief....:(

LOL- Yeah, I never got into it. BUt I remember people talking about it in the group some year past.

I'm looking for the book where Darcy's father gives him an ultimatum to find a bride before the end of the season or lose his inheritance. Meanwhile Elizabeth has to find a spouse before the end of the season or marry Collins. I paused reading right in the middle, and now can't find it!
EDIT - FOUND Darcy's Ultimatum by Jennifer Joy

Hi all,

I am working on the golden ten challenge and one of the catagories I am missing is:
4. Personal Book Recommendation

So I will really appreciate your best recommendations :-D
I prefer stories without too much angst and it is a bonus if it is available as an audio book.

I have already read pretty much everything by Amy D'Oracio, Julie Cooper, Elizabeth Adams, Abigail Reynolds, Melanie Rachel, Joana Starnes, Alix James, Summer Hanford, Jeannie Peneaux, Sarah Courtney.

I listen to a lot of audios, so I have pretty much heard all of the new P&P variations audios on audible for the last year or more...

Please help 😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏

Hi, Nina!
I would recommend The Wager by Sue Barr. Her books are riveting, and this one is low angst. It is available in audio.

Elin wrote: "Hi, Nina!
I would recommend The Wager by Sue Barr. Her books are riveting, and this one is low angst. It is available in audio."

Thank you for the quick recommendation. I already listened to that one, and I really liked it :-D

Sorry, I should have thought about something more obscure, but those are difficult to find in audiobooks.

There is the newly out Thwarted by MJ Stratton.

I can also recommend Elin's Vedi Veni Vicious, for a very different kind of variation

I heard both of them too 😁

If you want an audio I highly recommend The Sound of Christmas: A Jazz-Age Pride and Prejudice-inspired Christmas

Jann Rowland has a lot of his books out on audio now.

Craftyhj wrote: "If you want an audio I highly recommend The Sound of Christmas: A Jazz-Age Pride and Prejudice-inspired Christmas"

I actually have the sound of christmas on my audible wish list, so I wil go with that one.
Thank you :-)

Sophia wrote: "Jann Rowland has a lot of his books out on audio now."

Thanks Sophia, I have listened to all of them as well...

Perusing the Shelves is a site that's new to me. You can ask where to find a story you remember from a fan fiction site, and even request copies of stories that have been taken down. I understand that several stories have been uploaded to the site as well.

https://www.perusingtheshelves.com/fa...

Liz H wrote: "Perusing the Shelves is a site that's new to me. You can ask where to find a story you remember from a fan fiction site, and even request copies of stories that have been taken down. I understand t..."

Neat!
I wonder if someone started that after the Index came down.

Sam wrote: I wonder if someone started that after the Index came down.

I don't think so, the first post on the linked page is from 2015

How unobservant am I???

Thanks Katja!

As an author, I would respectfully request that you all NOT support websites that are illegally distributing copyrighted works, such as PerusingTheShelves. This hurts all authors and publishers and we are having a tough enough time these days with plagiarism and the like. Most JAFF authors do all they can to provide free copies, review copies and the like and we would just really plead with you to NOT support the stealing of our work!
Thanks!

Amy wrote: "As an author, I would respectfully request that you all NOT support websites that are illegally distributing copyrighted works, such as PerusingTheShelves. This hurts all authors and publishers and..."

So the site isn't independent unpubs, but another piracy site?
Yikes!!

No problem!





Good to know the authors are watching our threads and keeping us on the straight and narrow ;)

Amy, thanks for the info.

I deleted it from my list.

Thanks y'all, so very much appreciated! <3

Hello, I'm not sure this is the right spot to ask this question, but here goes.

Has anyone heard of the JAFF author Avent Chevrette? Her name appeared on my radar recently so I looked up what else she had written, not recognizing her. A handful of books were published in about a month's time, some within days of each other. No reviews. Not on KU, either. I may be getting hardened but it sounds fishy to me.

Sounds like AI is the author.

wosedwew wrote: "Sounds like AI is the author."
That's kind of my thinking too.

the subheader in their books is "A Pride and Prejudice Variations"

it is generally a warning sign, whenever that appears. IMO.

Because of the 'S'?

All I know is that a number of extremely prolific authors had that same header, and they were all DNF at the free sample for me.

Generally these authors come out of nowhere, have no online presence (that I'm aware of), publish five or ten or fifteen books in the span of a couple of weeks, and then disappear.

Some of these authors have already been deleted from Goodreads and Amazon altogether. Not sure if Amazon got rid of bad riddance or the author realised that publishing slop wasn't the moneymaker they wanted it to be and deleted themselves.

I am sure there are a lot of people using AI to write but I have wondered if some of these deleted authors are the same person because it seems to me that their periods of prolific publishing did not overlap. One was busy in September, another in October, yet another in November - started another pen name once they got in trouble with the powers to be?. (I can't verify the dates though, because the listings and reviews are gone.)

Some of the free samples have had obvious AI prompts that had not been edited out. There were inconsistencies, nonsensical details and formulaic repetition. Occasionally weird illustrations that come across as bad AI (a headless torso and six fingers, etc.) The table of content is sometimes oddly numbered. One of these books had two epilogues, one in the middle of the book. Some were formatted with an awful lot of white space or with the lines centered, even though it wasn't poetry. JAFF character names and details are mentioned but the timelines do not seem to mesh with canon, or even with what's said in the rest of the free sample. Elizabeth has refused Darcy at Hunsford but she's also meeting the Netherfield residents for the first time, or something. Sometimes the blurb has nothing to do with the story that the free sample seems to be starting. Or the chapter headings in the table of contents seem to be developing the story in a very strange direction. Like, it starts mundanely at Longbourn where everybody is drinking tea and talking about assemblies blah blah. But in the latter part of the there will be chapter titles that indicate something very pompous, fantastical, metaphysical, top secret and mystical is probably going on. At first someone wants to catch a husband and later they will be part of some powerful mythological conference, there will be royals, or dragons, a hidden chamber, a war...

The reason why I thought it was bad varies. But the common thing is that if "A Pride and Prejudice Variations" appears it never really comes across as a labour of love.

To me, anyway.

Very well and clearly explained.

I've begun not even looking at books written by new and unknowns. Unless I come across them on SM or see they've posted the story first on FF or AHA, etc...

Such a shame, but I recall reading from another poster they think the fad will fade at some point.

Thanks Amy. I'll skip the site.

Amy wrote: "As an author, I would respectfully request that you all NOT support websites that are illegally distributing copyrighted works, such as PerusingTheShelves. This hurts all authors and publishers and..."

Appreciate the heads up, Amy!

Katja wrote: "All I know is that a number of extremely prolific authors had that same header, and they were all DNF at the free sample for me.

Thank you so much, Katja. For the education which you obviously have done your research. I didn't even think of downloading the sample, I only saw that they had no reviews and weren't on KU. I truly believed that this was a case of plagiarism, and I'd find the scuttlebutt here with you guys. Thank you again, I really learned a lot from your reply.