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The perils and pitfalls of “writing like Austen” (part one)

by Alice McVeigh

3 min readNov 13, 2023

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The perils and pitfalls of “writing like Austen” (part one)

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Classical Music Agony Aunt

The true if gruesome tale of a decade as Classical Music Daily’s agony aunt

5 min readMay 21, 2022

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Classical Music Agony Aunt

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

On Releasing Three Novels in One Calendar Year — and why I wish I hadn’t!

Well, on Feb. 3 I’ll have achieved this feat — something even mad dogs and Englishmen would baulk at. Except, of course, for those…

8 min readJan 19, 2022

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On Releasing Three Novels in One Calendar Year — and why I wish I hadn’t!

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

My M4 Disaster

Or: How — not — to get to Nuremburg.

7 min readNov 4, 2021

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My M4 Disaster

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Austen’s characters: Love them — or just love to hate them????

When the natives get bored on the Facebook Jane Austen Fan Club — and they seem to get bored perilously easily — some member almost always…

3 min readApr 6, 2024

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Austen’s characters: Love them — or just love to hate them????

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Oh no, it isn’t: The truth about litfic in 2024, by a 2024 Selfies Finalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCcRG2QBb_k

3 min readMar 18, 2024

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Why bother with my prizewinning DARCY?

By Alice McVeigh

7 min readMar 6, 2024

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

And the band played on…

This piece was prompted by a question on Facebook’s Pride and Prejudice page, where someone openly doubted whether it would have been…

5 min readDec 27, 2023

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And the band played on…

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Jane Austen had ADHD and other lies

Did Austen have ADHD? Or would that be Emma Woodhouse?

7 min readOct 17, 2023

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Jane Austen had ADHD and other lies

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Remembering Hoffy

Today would have been Hoffy’s birthday. Had he lived, he would have been well over 120. He was already in his sixties when I first met him…

7 min readOct 10, 2023

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Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Alice McVeigh: award-winning novelist

Novels by London-based Alice McVeigh have been published by Orion/Hachette, UK’s Unbound Publishing, and Warleigh Hall Press.

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