Pre-Release Post – Captain Wentworth in His Own Words | Shannon Winslow's "Jane Austen Says…"

Less than a week to go until the official launch of Captain Wentworth in His Own Words!

Publishing a book is a little like taking a major trip. It’s equally exciting, for one thing. Also, there’s a LOT of preparation required. Only instead of researching and planning your itinerary, making reservations, and packing your bags, there’s writing/editing 90,000 words, formatting and uploading files, and setting up dates for a promotional blog tour.

For the reader, it’s a little easier. Just decide on a literary destination and go!

Think of this showy graphic I created as one of those big, glossy travel posters that get you hooked on taking the trip in the first place. It gives you a vision of what you’ll see and sparks your imagination for all the adventures you’ll experience if you sign up for the trip!

Or maybe you’re influenced more by word-of-mouth recommendations. I just received this endorsement for the book today from one of my advance readers: “Read the first 5 chapters so far and I’m sooo sucked in!!! I’m loving his childhood story so far!!!”

So I hope you are onboard, ready to come along on Captain Wentworth’s adventures starting September 18th.

Now that everything is pretty well set, and I’m just counting down the days, I wanted to be sure you’re up to speed with the full itinerary.

In case you missed it, I held the “strip-tease” cover reveal at Austen Variations last week. You can pop over there to read it if you’re interested. But I always save the first look at the full paperback cover for here, for my own loyal subscribers. So, without further ado, here it is!

This will wrap around 300 pages covering everything from Wentworth’s childhood, his days in the Navy, meeting Anne the first time, their falling in love and painful breakup, as well as the events of the original novel told from his point of view. As you can probably guess, there WILL be a happy ending to the story!

After the official release post at Austen Variations on the 18th, the travelling continues – around the US, Italy, and Portugal – on a 6-stop blog tour, listed below. I will add live links as available so you can follow along. There will be never-before-seen excerpts, interviews, and other good things!

So check back here for updates. The paperback and Kindle copy go live at Amazon on Thursday, September 18th! (You can preorder your Kindle copy now to avoid delay.) And for you audiophiles, I’m happy to say that and the audiobook is already in production. Thanks for reading and sharing this journey with me!

“So much novelty and beauty! I have travelled so little that every fresh place would be interesting to me. But there is real beauty at Lyme, and in short” (with a faint blush at some recollections) altogether my impressions of the place are very agreeable.” -Persuasion, chapter 20