NEW RELEASE - Pride, Prejudice, and Peril by Katie Oliver

 Phaedra Brighton is perfectly content with her life of lecturing college students, gossiping with her best friends, and dreaming of Mr. Darcy. As a young, respected (if somewhat peculiar) English professor, her expertise lies in all things Jane Austen—but she knows that the closest she’ll ever get to being a real-life Elizabeth Bennet is in her dreams.

When Who Wants to Marry Mr. Darcy, a new reality TV show, starts filming at her best friend Charlene’s estate, Phaedra is intrigued. And when the producer asks her to lend her Austenian knowledge as a consultant on the show, she’s over the moon. But on the first day of filming, when Charlene’s new husband is found electrocuted and Charlene herself is accused of the crime, Phaedra comes crashing back to reality.

With murder on the syllabus and her best friend in dire straits, there’s no Mr. Darcy around to help Phaedra—she’ll have to get to the bottom of this mystery herself. 

ABOUT PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND PERIL

“Like a modern-day Agatha Christie bestowed with a hefty dollop of Jane Austen.”—Laura Childs, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Jane Austen meets reality TV and murder in this quirky cozy mystery—the first in a new series!

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Katie Oliver

My name is Katie Oliver. I’ve been writing for several years but I’m brand new to the cozy mystery genre. I’m the author of the Dating Mr. Darcy and Marrying Mr. Darcy series. Last year I decided to switch things up and wrote a cozy mystery. The result, the first book in my Jane Austen Tea Society Mystery series, Pride, Prejudice, and Peril, was published by Berkley in December 2021.

I live in South Florida along with my husband and an ever-growing stack of cozy mysteries waiting to be read.

You can learn more about me and my books at Katie Oliver.com or Penguin Random House, and on Twitter  @Katieoliver01, Instagram,  or Facebook KatieOliverWriter.

 

Mr. Chuckles tips over the Wizard's Cauldron meeting 100th interview special edition: Star US chickliterati, Katie Oliver

The Wizard speaks:

For followers of the Wizard's Cauldron, Katie Oliver needs no introduction. Most people's odds-on favourite for global romance superstardom, Katie has been writing stories ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil.  

With her star currently shining brightly in our corner of the literary firmament, I thought of no-one more appropriate than Katie to be our 100th interview.

A big fan of the old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers romances and later, the Stephen Curtis chickflicks "Four Weddings" and "Notting Hill", Katie is known for her light touch, effervescent humour and gentle observations of the "battle of the sexes". 

As a prolific writer, Katie also is fond of long term character development, so you really get a sense of the creation of a literary world. 

I'm a big fan of the way she does business and am wishing her to the top. I picked up the Wizphone and caught up with Katie in her garden somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard.  Here's what she had to say to me.

Read more at:
http://greenwizard62.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-wizards-cauldron-100th-interview.html

Mr. Chuckles stopped by The Wizard's Cauldron to check out rom-coms

The Great Wizard: Tell us about your work. In what genre do you write and why?
Katie Oliver:  Although publishers of necessity put genre labels on books – chick lit, romantic comedy, paranormal, etc. – I think of my writing as women’s fiction (although men like my books, too). But if I had to assign a genre, I’d say they’re rom-coms. I love the give-and-take between two characters who are attracted to each other even when (especially when!) they know they shouldn’t be - or when they initially can’t stand each other.  And I love witty banter.  I think my love of romantic comedy goes back to the screwball comedies of the thirties – Nick and Nora Charles, Topper, Fred and Ginger, etc. 

Read more:

http://greenwizard62.blogspot.com/2013/12/romcoms-newest-author-katie.html

Romcom's newest author Katie Oliver...around the Cauldron

The Wizard Says:

I'd like to welcome Katie Oliver around the Cauldron today. 

Living in Washington and something of an Anglophile, I met Katie through a spontaneous retweet on that frenetic pimpmobile, Twitter. She's excellent company and well worth following. 

@katieoliver01

Her first book is out next week and I have a feeling its going to be a success. 

From her sweeping, tree-house enshadowed abode somewhere near Colonial Downs, I interrupted Katie on a shopping trip for big hats and nattered with her over the Wizphone. 

Here's what she had to say.  Well worth reading.
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Romcom's newest author Katie Oliver...around the Cauldron