Interview With An Author – C. Allyn Pierson

Interview With An Author – C. Allyn Pierson

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1) Your own favorite Austen character and why

CAP: Mr. Darcy- he is a complex character and his initial appearance of haughty reserve is covering a very interesting person. Most of all he is one of those rare men- he can admit he is wrong and change!

2) Your Favorite Austen book

CAP: Pride and Prejudice, followed by Persuasion. I relate to Lizzy Bennet and her wit, but I also like for the underdog to win, i.e. little overlooked Anne Elliot who is far superior to the rest of her family.

3) Which actor would you chose to be YOUR Mr Darcy and why

CAP: I can’t do better than Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehles.

4) Who would be your perfect Elizabeth

CAP: See #3 JE played Elizabeth to perfection – witty without being snotty, attractive, but not so overwhelmingly beautiful that it would not make sense for Darcy to reject her. JE has a luminous quality when she meets Darcy again at Pemberley and you suddenly realize that she is lovely- truly a “beauty”

5) Your favorite book of all time by any author

CAP: Sorry to be boring: Pride and Prejudice, but I am a fan of Jane Eyre, too.

6) Your favorite Austen film or TV adaption

CAP:  1995 P&P- this version is the most perfect film adaptation I have seen- so many have added weird things that are not in the book and don’t make sense (like Judy Dench showing up at the Bennet house after everyone has gone to bed. The one thing I would have change is that I would have shown a little kissing as Darcy and Elizabeth take their long walk after she accepts him!

7) You are having a dinner party and can invite four Austen characters which would they be.

CAP:  Colonel Fitzwilliam, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Mr. Knightley

8. Why have you chosen them

CAP:  I would be guaranteed excellent conversation and a convivial atmosphere. Maybe I could find a wife for Colonel Fitzwilliam

9) Which character would you like to play in a film

CAP:  JA character: Elizabeth Bennet, no question, but since Colin Firth is as old as I am, I probably would go for Richard Armitage as my Darcy (hey, we’re fantasizing here!)

10) Tell us about your next planned book (whether Austen related or not)

CAP:  A novel about Kitty Bennet and her love (a continuation of her part of Mr. Darcy’s Little Sister)

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Mr Darcy’s Little Sister by C. Allyn Pierson

Mr Darcy’s Little Sister by C. Allyn Pierson

Pride and Prejudice Continues...

Georgiana Darcy grows up and goes in pursuit of happiness and true love, much to her big brothers consternation

Yes, Yes, Yes. This is right up my street, great story, nice character interaction, good historical details and fast moving plots with some suspenseful moments.

Obviously, Georgiana tells this tale of her brothers marriage and her first season as she comes out as a debutant and is presented at Court to the Prince Regent.

A major issue for such a shy young lady but after a very harrowing and frightening ordeal, she finds herself to be far more courageous than she ever realised.

She also has her eyes opened to love, lot’s of nice little touches like Lord Byron and a nod to the Scarlett Pimpernel.

A real flavor of the period suffuses throughout this book, it especially highlights the disparity in woman’s rights. that the men could get away with doing almost anything to women and they and they and their families could do nothing about it as, the scandal of anyone finding out was even more damaging to the women and her family.

Being a young lady with a large dowery or title and estate  as is the case of Anne De Bourgh, with a minefield of potential fortune hunters and dissolute bad guys. And bad guys in this book are really pretty dam nasty.

This book has definitely leapfrogged up my list of Jane Austen Prequels and Sequels and is happily nestling near the very top.

C. Allyn Pierson (who also writes as Carey A. Bligard) will write more sequels as I for one will happily buy them and enjoy reading them.

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