Deborah and Pamela's invitation to a Wild Party (San Francisco, CA 1977)

How Austencats Came About...

Austencats began with author Pamela Jane's idea of combining the wicked humor of Jane Austen with the wackiness of cats (or of our fantasies about them.) It seemed so simple! Just take photos of cats, and match them with an appropriate or wildly funny inappropriate quote from P&P.

Here are a few examples: (go to P&P photo gallery and click on photo to see larger image)

Ok, so the bills look more like letters, and Mr. Bennet looks more clueless than surprised, but maybe he's really bowled over by the thought that his dear Lizzy is about to become Mrs. Darcy!

You tell 'em, Lady Cat!

Please send us your own P&P (or other Jane Austen novels) cat photos and quotes!

They don't have to be perfect and they don't to be period. They just have to make you laugh!

For ideas, check out our Photo Gallery.

Creator of Austencats

Pamela Jane is a children's book author (www.pamelajane.com) and mostly what's on her ipod are Jane Austen novels (unabridged of course). She listens to them when she goes to sleep, and dreams new chapters. It's almost like finding a long-lost Austen manuscript in the attic of Chawton House. Elizabeth takes a train ride (well, okay, it's a dream after all), Darcy... well, we all know what we dream about him. And then there's the inevitable know-it-all who quotes huge chunks of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE or EMMA verbatim.

Pamela has published over twenty-five books for children from preschool through middlegrade, including Noelle of the Nutcracker, a novel illustrated by Jan Brett (Houghton Mifflin) which has been optioned for a film; the “Winky Blue” series : No Way, Winky Blue; Take a Bow, Winky Blue!; Right on, Winky Blue!; Winky Blue Forever; Way to Go, Winky Blue! and Winky Blue Goes Wild, as well as A BOO C: A Spooky Alphabet Story; All About Christmas: A Merry Alphabet Story, and ABC Valentine: A Valentine Alphabet, published by Grosset & Dunlap. Other titles include, Milo and the Fire Engine Parade; Milo and the Greatest Trick Ever; Milo and the Flapjack Fiasco; Monster Countdown, and Monster Mischief (Atheneum). She has also published two books with Little Simon (Fall is Here, and Spring is Here). Many of her books have appeared in Scholastic Book Clubs, on ALA “Pick of the Lists”, Weekly Reader, and foreign language editions.

News Flash!

Pamela's new book, A VAMPIRE IS COMING TO DINNER!  10 RULES TO FOLLOW, (the ultmate book on vampire etiquette) illustrated by Pedro Rodriquez is out from Price Stern Sloan (Penguin Books for Young Readers).  

"A ghoulishly good time," Publisher's Weekly

LITTLE GOBLINS TEN, a picture book illustrated by Jane Manning, will be out in 2011 from Harper.  

Pamela's first book, NOELLE OF THE NUTCRACKER has been recently optioned for a film by an independent film maker who was inspired by the book as a little girl.

Pamela Jane speaks regularly at conferences, universities and schools.  She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Authors and Illustrators, and Savvy Marketeers (AuthorsForSchoolVisits.com), a group of children's book authors who meet to implement and research marketing strategies.  Pamela is also a member of JASNA and the Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature.

For adults, she is in the process of completing a memoir about the obstacles she overcame to become a children's author during a period of personal and political tumult of the sixties.

http://twitter.com/austencats  (Tweets about cats for Janeites)  

http://blog.pamelajane.com (children's book news and blog)

Deborah Guyol, Co-Author and Photographer for Austencats...

Besides being a cat fanatic and Jane Austen lover, Deborah Guyol is a lawyer, writer, photographer, editor and teacher. She is co-author of a book first published in 1994, The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering (3rd ed. 2003, all new 4th ed. forthcoming 2010). She has been editor-in-chief of an Oregon State Bar publication, the Debtor-Creditor Newsletter since 1998, and writes and speaks frequently on legal and law-career issues.

Deborah studied photography at the U.C. Extension Center, San Francisco, California, in the 1970s with, among others, Larry Sultan, Judy Dater, Ellen Brooks, and Tom Baird. She has participated in group photography shows at the U.C. Extension Center and her photographs have appeared in numerous print and web publications.

Deborah fell in love with the novels of Jane Austen when she studied them in college and graduate school. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, and delivered a keynote address (on courtship conventions in Emma), at the December 2000 meeting of the Oregon-Southwest Washington chapter of that organization.

 She teaches creative writing in the Mature Learning program at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Her memoir “Lovesick Blues” is seeking a publisher and she is at work on a novel, "Cary Grant Slept Here."