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Will and Jane’s Excellent Adventure! Again!

Feb 19th 2008
Sabrina JeffriesGoddess Grins

Here, for your enjoyment, is another installment of the comic!

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46 Responses to “Will and Jane’s Excellent Adventure! Again!”

DebMarlowe on 19 Feb 2008 at 7:01 am #

Bwaaa haaa haa haaa! Will and Jane rock!

Can’t talk, I have to run to the bookstore to buy LSRL!
cail on 19 Feb 2008 at 8:31 am #

i’ll be doing that at lunch or directly after work!
Kelly Ann on 19 Feb 2008 at 8:32 am #

Love it! Will’s was getting a little cocky, I’m glad you put him in his place! ha-ha!

My daughter is sick today with the flu. I had plans to get my copy of your new book right after work at 1pm. I’m crying now because I have to wait till after work tomorrow! If I didn’t have to drive over 45 min to get to a bookstore I could nip right up to the store this morning! Jody comes 1st though, so we’ll be laying around the house impatiently waiting for tomorrow!!!!
Julie on 19 Feb 2008 at 8:52 am #

HaHaHaaaaa-oh-my! Usually I just lurk But that was To Funny. Thanks for the laugh… and the reminder that your new book is out today!
Claudia Dain on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:00 am #

Too funny! I’m off to buy it right now!!
Sabrina Jeffries on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:04 am #

Kelly, children must ALWAYS come first!

Yes, Will tends to be cocky. You’ve got to watch him. He’s a sneaky little guy, very full of himself. It’s the big head, you know. He can’t help himself.
Kim on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:11 am #

Too funny, Sabrina! I adore the Excellent Adventures.

Have a wonderful publication day!
Karen Hawkins on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:12 am #

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sabrina, you rock! That’s a GREAT cartoon — and I have to say, I was thinking Jane needed to put him in his place. I didn’t think about you doing it! Very clever!

Can’t wait to read your book, m’dear! Off to get my copy at lunch!
Sonja Foust on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:18 am #

Heeheehee, awesome. My copy is coming from Amazon! (The preorder thing is just so cool. I’m addicted.) Can’t wait to get it!
JackieToo on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:19 am #
Julia London on 19 Feb 2008 at 10:00 am #

Sabrina, that is priceless. I want to send my Michelin man over to hang out with Will and Jane.

Congrats on the book!
Nicole Jordan on 19 Feb 2008 at 10:12 am #

ROFL!!! These cartoons are hilarious, Sabrina. And so very clever. Thanks for making my morning.

Off in a little while to pick up my reserved copy at B&N!! This looks to be another delicious romance.
elsiehogarth on 19 Feb 2008 at 10:25 am #

Sabrina, these cartoons are great. Have you been watching Master Piece Theatre, PBS, new versions of all of Jane Austen’s works? They have been fantastic. They are currently replaying Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth. He is the only Mr. Darcy for me.
Sabrina Jeffries on 19 Feb 2008 at 10:33 am #

Yes, Elsie, I HAVE been watching them (I have the Firth one on DVD, though, so I haven’t been watching IT). I’ve really enjoyed them, although I think the Northanger Abbey one was the best of the lot.
Marie Conley on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:22 am #

Geez you are making me more and more behind. I am currently reading In the Prince’s Bed. I’m trying to get through all of your books. Man I wish I had more time to read.
Lismore on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:42 am #

Hilarious! Love the cartoon. Off to the bookstore….
Suzanne Enoch on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:54 am #

Oh, man! How do you get yogurt off your keyboard? That was too funny, Sabrina!!

Let me know if you need a Mulder or a Scully or the guys from Shaun of the Dead or any Star Trek or Star Wars…You get it. *g*

Off to the mall for Let Sleeping Rogues Lie!
Marie Conley on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:57 am #

You mean you don’t let each other read it? That’s horrible! There is no way I could listen to my critique partners talk about their story without kidnapping it to read.
Kay on 19 Feb 2008 at 12:17 pm #

Oh Sabrina, I hurt from laughing so hard. No wonder you books are sooooo good.

LSRL is next on my tbr list. Must complete current chapter on WIP, then to the bookstore for my reward.
Susan K on 19 Feb 2008 at 12:27 pm #

Ok I’ve been gone for a while but I’m back now.

Sabrina - I have it on my list of books to buy and very very soon I am going to be able to catch up on buying my favorite authors. Cause I got A NEW JOB!!!! It only took me 4 months of not working at all and 2 months of working at Target to finally find another office job. Yeah! And now that I will be making more money I will be able to afford to buy books again! Yeah! Happy Dance!!

Oh and those of you who remember I’m getting married….IT’S LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AWAY!!!!
ArkansasCyndi on 19 Feb 2008 at 1:17 pm #

LOVED the cartoons! Today? ROFLMAO!
Aspen on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:11 pm #

Thanks! I am taking a Shakespeare class this semester. We are reading King Lear. Gross!
Anyway here are some great Shakespearian insults your Shakespeare may use.
Instructions: combine one word from each column:
artless base-court appple-john
bawdy bat-fowling baggage
beslubbering beef-witted barnacle
bootless beetle-headed bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear

Okay way too many to type my favorite of my big long list is:
You Saucy Common-kissing harpy. I think it means tramp but with Shakespeare you just never know!
Hey this would be great for evil critics!
Sabrina Jeffries on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:20 pm #

I like beslubbering, myself. *G* Thanks for sharing the insults, Aspen!

Marie, we don’t read each other’s books until they hit the shelves (my critique partners read them all along, of course, but they’re not part of the blog, well, except as visitors). We’re lucky we remember to put our clothes on straight!

Susan K, congrats on the new job AND the wedding! Wow, how do you do all that?
Lisa H on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:24 pm #

CONGRATULATIONS SABRINA!

If Jane tires of Will and his “short man complex” I have a Captain Jack action figure who could put the smile back on her face, although, he has been shortend a bit by my 2 1/2 yearold. His legs are missing below the knee.

Anyway, that’d make him just about the right height for….

HEHEHE
Nicole Jordan on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:27 pm #

SusanK, welcome back!!! We missed you greatly. But huge congrats on your new job. I was just thinking of you and wondering how your wedding plans were going.

Elsie, I’ve been watching all the Masterpiece Classic Jane Austen offerings, too. And I think they’ve been really well done. I have the ColinF A&E version on video tape, but I still couldn’t resist taping the MC showings these past two weeks and watching them. They are just so great. Watched the proposal scene last night. Just adore that scene.

And Aspen, those Shakespearian sayings are hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
Aspen on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:30 pm #

Okay let me try again
Clouted, clay-brained, bum-bailey
craven, common-kissing, canker-blossom
currish, crook-pated, clack-dish
dankish, dismal-dreaming, clotpole
dissembling, dizzy-eyed, coxcomb
droning, doghearted, codpiece
errant, dread-bolted, death-token
fawning, earth-vexing, dewberry
fobbing, elf-skinned, flap-dragon
forward, fat-kidneyed, flax-wench
frothy, fen-sucked, flirt-gill
gleeking, flap-mouthed, foot-licker
goatish, fly-bitten, fustilarian
gorbellied, folly-fallen, giglet
impertinent, fool-born, gudgeon
infectious, full-gorged, haggard
jarring, guts-griping, harpy
loggerheaded, half-faced, hedge-pig
lumpish, hasty-witted, horn-beast
mammering, hedge-born, hugger-mugger
mangled, hell-hated, joithead
mewling, idle-headed, lewdster
paunchy, ill-breeding, lout
pribbling, ill-nurtured, maggot-pie
puking, knotty-pated, malt-worm

Ok thats all u get for now!
Lisa H on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:41 pm #

What’s a giglet? Anything like a giblet?
Susan K on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:44 pm #

Nicole - Wedding plans are almost complete! Yeah! I will be so glad when the big day is finally here. And it’s great to be back! I’ve missed you guys and all the fun!
ct009ct on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:47 pm #

Sabrina, Very Funny! This is now my favorite comic strip!!!!

Aspen, very nice. Personally I like:
Impertinent, knotty-pated foot-licker!! LOL!!
Freshechelle on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:49 pm #

Nicole, good thing you’re recording the new broadcast of the older P&P. The A&E version was over-edited. Once I got the DVD, I discovered new stuff which can almost justify my obsessive repeat viewings. Can’t wait to see if there are new versions of Persuasion, Emma and S&S to come on PBS.

Sabrina, I’ll confess I’ve yet to read your novels but judging from your comic strip skill, I know I’m in for a rare treat. I’ll be swinging by a bookstore tomorrow to get your newest. Hope it’s a fast ride up the NYT list for you - and that you stay there a good long time!
doglady on 19 Feb 2008 at 2:51 pm #

I LOVE Bill and Jane’s Excellent Adventures. Too funny! Poor guy. It’s bad enough she is taller than he is - the fact that she is smarter must be entirely “the outside of enough!”

My writers’ group meets at our local bookstore tonight so I will pick up my copy of LSRL then! YAY!!!!! It will be all the more fun to read now that we know what Anthony looks like!
Caren Crane on 19 Feb 2008 at 3:14 pm #

Yay! I loved the cartoon and am thrilled about the release! You have a real talent for cartoons, Sabrina, which is odd considering you’re a novelist. Condensing comedy into spare, pithy lines plus visuals is an artform! I guess it’s just another of the many facets of your talent. Which is, apparently, boundless!
Gannon on 19 Feb 2008 at 3:32 pm #

LOL, Sabrina!! I can’t wait to see what Will and Jane get up to next!

Congrats on your release! Cheers!!!!!
Sabrina Jeffries on 19 Feb 2008 at 3:33 pm #

Fresh, I didn’t know that about the A&E being over-edited. I did wonder about some bits in the DVD that I didn’t remember (I practically had my tape from the A&E one memorized by the time I bought the DVD). Glad you’re going to try one of my books–I hope you enjoy it!

Caren, trust me, my talent is not boundless. I can’t paint or draw. I always wanted to do a comic, but figured the lack of artistic ability would hamper me. Thank God for digital cameras! Oh, and Mac’s Comic Life program.
Claudia Dain on 19 Feb 2008 at 3:41 pm #

Sabrina, I’m just back from the bookstore and LET SLEEPING ROGUES LIE was everywhere! In the stacks, on the new release table, AND in a dump at the registers. So awesome!
Nicole Jordan on 19 Feb 2008 at 3:53 pm #

>>>Nicole, good thing you’re recording the new broadcast of the older P&P. The A&E version was over-edited. Once I got the DVD, I discovered new stuff which can almost justify my obsessive repeat viewings.

I noticed that, Fresh! In the first two MC installments, there were quite a few little snippets and shots that weren’t in the original. I figured those were left out so A&E could get in more commercials. And while I don’t think their lack significantly affected the story, it was fun to see them this time around.

>>> Can’t wait to see if there are new versions of Persuasion, Emma and S&S to come on PBS.

The new Persuasion was the very first MC redo a few weeks ago. Did you catch that? In fact, I liked it better than the Cyrian Hinds version, since he never did appeal to me as a hero. And since this is my second fave JA novel, I’m very particular about the storytelling and characters.
Ann in IL on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:27 pm #

Woo Hoo.. Stopped at Waldenbooks after work to pick up my copy of LET SLEEPING ROGUES LIE. Can’t wait to get started.

Also picked up Oprah’s new book club selection. Anyone read it?
Kasey on 19 Feb 2008 at 8:20 pm #

I love the Will and Jane strip.

And, I got your book. I can’t wait to start it.
FreshEChelle on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:25 pm #

Can’t believe I missed the new version of Persuasion. That is my fave JA. I love the Amanda Root/C. Hinds version. They start of so bland in looks and personality and they blossom throughout the film. Guess I’ll have to hunt down this new version. Thanks for the heads up.
ladydawgfan on 19 Feb 2008 at 10:31 pm #

LOL *cough* LOL!!! Sabrina, do you have any idea how hard it is to read “Will and Jane” when you have bronchitis???

Congrats on the release of LSRL!! It’s gonna be huge, m’dear!! It’s gonna be huge!!
Kelly Ann on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:30 pm #

Sabrina!!! My daughter was feeling so much better by noon, so when my DH got home from work, I nipped up to the bookstore & they were sold out!!!! And they were out of Soy Chi Latte’s too! What kind of hellish Books A Million did I land in? I’m trying again tomorrow at the bookstore that is 2 blocks from my work. I hope this means #1 on the NY best seller list for you! Congrats on having so many fans in Alabama!

Aspen, I love the insults, how fun! I’ll know have many more insults for my best friend. We usually just call each other tramp & hussey, things like that! Now, there are so many new things I can call her. We have so much fun trying to find new ones too that are still pretty clean- I know, we aren’t right, but we have so much fun! What a great class you are taking!

ladydawgfan, I hope you feel better soon. My daughter had a 24 hr flu and it wasn’t pretty! We laid on the couch all day cuddling and watching cartoons!
Ann in IL on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:40 pm #

Oh Sabrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIVE STARS
CHAMPAGNE
CHOCOLATE
ROSES

However you celebrate…………double it. LSRL is wonderful.
Anthony and Madeline are the stuff that legends are made of. The perfect couple. This book goes directly to the Keeper Shelf, never to be loaned (cuz it might not come back) and re-read often. Such a great feel good story.

CONGRATULATIONS

And thank you. I loooved the book.
Sabrina Jeffries on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:47 pm #

Kelly Ann, you made my night!! Sold out? That’s great! Out of Soy Lattes, too? What’s WRONG with these people? And you probably really needed one after a day of looking after a sick child, though I’m glad she’s feeling better.

Thanks, all of you for buying the book and the well wishes and such. I had a fasting blood test today, where the appt. wasn’t until 11:30!!! I’ve been faint ever since, despite eating whatever I could stuff in my mouth So I was about ready for some cheeriness.

ladydawgfan, so sorry you’ve got bronchitis! My dh, son, and I all had it at the same time one Thanksgiving. We still refer to it as the holiday from hell.
Sabrina Jeffries on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:48 pm #

Ann, you doll you! You read it already?? Wow! I’m so glad you liked it! Now I can go to bed with a smile on my face!

Sniff, sniff, I love you guys!
ladydawgfan on 19 Feb 2008 at 11:49 pm #

Thanks, Kelly Ann. It hit yesterday, and the doctor started me on a Z-pack today, which means no work until the antibiotic is gone. Guess I’m gonna do a lot of reading this week, when I’m not sleeping off this blasted bug!
PJane1031 on 20 Feb 2008 at 12:47 am #

Yippee!! I was able to pick LSRL earlier today before I went in to work! Have one book to finish reading, then I’ll be curling up with Anthony and Madeline! I can’t wait!

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