Alice McVeigh
@alicemcveigh
Award-winning - Austenesque - London-based novelist and pro cellist. Married, with PhD-candidate daughter at Harvard, also long-haired dachshunds. NHS-diagnosed 110% ADHD. Wastes many hours watching pro tennis (also playing it, not mega-well!)
Thrilled that the audiobook of MARIANNE is now on sale/on NetGalley, and priced at about half-price for the launch, so check it out!! 😍 Read by the lovely Elizabeth Grace, and not Amazon-exclusive. NetGalley link: netgal.ly/YnrC65#histfic #audiobooks #bookstagrammer #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
To celebrate my series' big win (IPPY silver medal in book series, all genres, last week) SUSAN is free! Winner of 8 gold medals it imagines a young and still unspoiled LADY SUSAN of just sixteen. (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “echoes the master herself”)😍 #JaneAusten #freeebook books2read.com/u/mBBnzp
Just crazy happy to find out that my Jane Austen series has won Silver in the famous IPPY book awards (fiction book series)!!!!! Check them out on www.alicemcveigh.com OR snap up a new audiobook of MARIANNE, narrated by Elizabeth Grace, 1/2 price for the launch!!! #janeausten #sense&sensibility
Last few days... Not only MARIANNE but also my boxset (first three novels in what PW called, "McVeigh's celebrated series") are FREE!!! #freeebooks 😍Links: books2read.com/u/mB91zA & books2read.com/u/m2aYVd
“Here, Mary – the plainest sister – takes on a role that sees her equal to the rest. Yet it is Darcy who claims this novel as his own…" – INDIEREADER ***Finalist (in the last seven novels) for the UK SELFIES Book Awards 2024*** #booksky #JaneAusten #TOBS #MrDarcy link: books2read.com/u/baK5Zy
Missing my grandfather today - General Maxwell D. Taylor, who led the 101st Airborne into Normandy on D-Day by parachute on D-Day (later, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). XXAlice #ww2 #iamwriting #DDay
Anyway, long story short, I was phenomenally lucky, got the third great literary agent I asked, and a big-five publisher (Hachette) for novels about a fictional orchestra in London. And TODAY they’re both free!! Grab yours today!! XXAlice Links: books2read.com/u/3y5LEZ and books2read.com/u/bOdpnA
As of this week, MARIANNE's now shortlisted for THREE awards - the mega FOREWORD INDIES, the American Writing Award's Hawthorne Prize and the (new) Ink Book Prize. Am about to release Elizabeth Grace's audiobook. Go, MARIANNE!!! #JaneAusten #bookawards #regencynovel #newaudiobook
Escape to a saner world!!! Just two days left to grab the multi-award-winning HARRIET (as MARIANNE has run out of free days!!!) HARRIET's a clever take on Austen's EMMA with a surprisingly clued-up Harriet Smith and a twist at the end. 😊#booksta #JaneAusten #freeebook Link: books2read.com/u/3kjOPR
A prequel to Austen's LADY SUSAN, Quarterfinalist for the BookLife 2021 and starred "Editor's pick" on Publishers Weekly, McVeigh's Susan won the Global, eLit, Pencraft awards. Grab your escape while it's FREE!!!!❤️ books2read.com/u/mBBnzp #booksky #JaneAusten #histfic #MrDarcy #freeebook
Today and tomorrow only!!! Rated in the top seven novels of 2024 in the 2025 UK Selfies Book Awards… “I have very little hope,” said Mr Bennet, “of disposing of even one of my daughters much before luncheon.” (from McVeigh’s PRIDE AND PERJURY).Link: books2read.com/u/311Ynl #JaneAusten #MrDarcy
Rated in the top seven novels of all genres for the 2025 UK Selfies Book Awards…“I have very little hope,” said Mr Bennet, “of disposing of even one of my daughters much before luncheon.” Fall in love with your favourite Austen characters again! #JaneAusten #MrDarcy books2read.com/u/311Ynl
This was my novelistic debut, courtesy of Orion/Hachette. FREE for the next few days!😊"A very enjoyable novel" (The Sunday Telegraph). “It sings with lyrical intensity and eloquent feeling” (Publishers Weekly) Link: books2read.com/u/bOdpnA #Booksky #Orchestra #Mahler #cello #freeebook
Thrilled to come back from visiting Prague to learn that MARIANNE won gold (historical romance) in the The BookFest!!! #lucky #TheBookFestSpring2026 #TheBookFest #LiteraryEvent #Bookish #BookFestAwards #BookConectUs #JaneAusten #historicalfiction #booksta #Austenesque #bookstagrammer
My second novel - originally published by Hachette- GHOST MUSIC - is FREE for a brief time. Swipe yours today!!! link: books2read.com/u/3y5LEZ The Secret Life of a symphony orchestra. #classicalmusic #orchestra #Mahler
Free March 16-19th!!! #freebook #historicalfiction #JaneAusten #MrDarcy Gold medallist in the Literary Global, HIstorical Fiction Company, PenCraft and American Writing Awards (historical romance). Fifth in what PUBLISHERS WEEKLY called, "McVeigh's celebrated series". Grab yours from Monday!!!😍
FREE for a few days only! Third in standalone series ('McVeigh's celebrated series' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY) was Finalist in the UK Selfies, Gold medallist in Incipere, PenCraft,Global book awards. Grab yours today! #booksky #historicalfiction
On World Book Day, celebrating JANE AUSTEN'S REGENCY WORLD's lovely review (Joceline Bury) #happybunny #janeausten "Alice McVeigh knows Austen's characters inside out, never striking a false note. MARIANNE is a deeply touching love story, as well as an assured comedy of Regency manners." XXAlice
Celebrating my latest interview here: www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art... #booksky #SenseandSensibility
www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art... Check out my answer to, "Is it ever intimidating to add your own spin to already beloved characters like Jane Churchill?" Me: "Yes!!!!" #SenseandSensibility #Austen #historicalfictionbooks
My prequel to Austen's LADY SUSAN (quarterfinalist in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's BookLife) is still free.
And yesterday she got lucky again!!! 😊 #luckybunny #mariannebymcveigh
HARRIET is FREE!!! Grab yours today!!! EMMA from the points of view of the enigmatic musical beauty (Jane Fairfax) and of a Harriet Smith smart enough to pretend to be stupid, in hopes that Emma will lift her higher in Surrey society. Link to grab for FREE: books2read.com/u/3kjOPR
I’m celebrating a book B-day with a freebie!!! 🙂 My PRIDE AND PERJURY – finalist in the 2025 UK Selfies Book Awards – is free until the end of Jan 22nd. Grab your copy today!!! Nine short stories inspired by Austen's P&P - and three by an even BETTER novel - EMMA! Link: books2read.com/u/mdaw1l
To celebrate my one-and-only, pen-name-written, scifi action/adventure B-day, it's briefly FREE! The Kirkus-starred LAST STAR STANDING is, well, me.☺️ I wanted to explore writing as a guy. Specifically, a rebel guy in 2094. Aiden is part of the resistance. Funny and moving! books2read.com/u/mlzMXY
If interested, the first THREE in my standalone series are FREE for the few days remaining in 2025!! 😀 XXAlice books2read.com/u/m2aYVd SUSAN features a very young Lady Susan entrancing Lady Catherine de Bourgh... HARRIET is EMMA with two amazing twists... DARCY gives us Darcy's point of view...