I've long been a fan of novellas. They present a challenge to the writer, beautifully captured by Henry James. He writes of the "possible scope" and "possible neatness" of the novella, and explains [I]t takes its place for me in a series of which the main merit and sign is the effort to do the complicated thing with a strong brevity and lucidity--to arrive, on behalf of the multiplicity, at a certain science of control. Infinitely attractive--thought I risk here again doubtless an effect of...

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Closing in on the completion of a new Jane Austen novella, *Revaluation*. It’s a Pemberley tale--in which, along with discerning changes of heart, Darcy and Elizabeth must contend with a feuding pig and peacock. Preorder information soon.