Just another day on the Jane Bennet Facebook page

Got a little LBD treat coming at ya later this week… #thelbd @theashleyclem @manboynice @itslauraspencer

Lovely little LBD reunion at the @nontransferablefilm party!

i will never get over ep. 98 of the lizzie bennet diaries. #neverforget

Oh this episode? Yeah it’s pretty great.

Pride and Prejudice Go

An app that shows you where there’s a young man in possession of a good fortune who must be in want of a wife

Happy 4th Anniversary LBD!!

So many great people were part of making this show and we’re so grateful to the community who have kept the fandom alive!

We’ll be sharing some of our favorite LBD episodes throughout the day so stay tuned.

Or just start watching it from the beginning again ;)

lizzie bennet diaries + ao3 tags

I got my little brother hooked on the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and this is my proudest accomplishment. (I love how embarrassed he was to admit this.)

We thank you for your accomplishment. (Silly face is our new favorite phrase.)

It’s here.

So.  It’s here. It’s finally time.  I’ve been terribly impatient.  I wanted this book out in the world before it was ever even written.  I wanted it to exist the minute the videos ended because I needed to know what happened next.  What happened to Lydia, who had become so much more of a person than a character.  

I don’t know if rachelkiley remembers this, but we were in the middle of the super-high craziness of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, when the 200th anniversary of P&P conflated with Lizzie getting to Pemberley/the sex tape and the whole thing seemed to explode.  At that time, we were already writing the final episodes.  I whispered to Rachel that Lydia’s story should be a book.  This was before anyone had even said a word about The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, let alone another book after that.  I just knew that Lydia had more to say after the end, and I wanted to hear it.

It was just an idea at the time.  And it took a long time to make it more than that. (Unfortunately, there is no such thing as instant gratification in the book world. Also, babies/jobs/stuff.)   We’ve been posting chapters on Wattpad but now the whole thing is finally here.   (I’m even doing a giveaway on my facebook page today, so you could potentially read the whole thing for free.)

And I hope you read it.  Enjoy it.  Or not, you don’t have to enjoy it.   Ask us questions.  Post reviews on amazon or goodreads.  We also enjoy a nice gifset. 

Regardless, I’m just happy that Lydia finally gets her own say.

Pemberley Digital + People of Colour.

So, rachelkiley and I just posted the first 4 chapters of The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet to Wattpad…

I don’t know how Wattpad works, but this is a cool sneak peek!

Get to know me: [1/10] Pairings

In the Dark.

Hi friends, acquaintances, and future enemies!

First of all: yes, this is a crowdfunding post.

That sucks. I know. I’m sorry.

As some of you may know, every year the YouTube Space puts together an amazing set for Halloween and booking time to shoot on it is quite competitive. My wonderful producer friend, wmilam​, and I submitted a pitch for a short film and not only got approved to shoot, but also got selected to be a part of an exclusive writing workshop (that we aren’t allowed to talk about in print yet? but if you watch the campaign video, you can find out more about it and who’s behind it) to really make sure our narrative is where it should be, and also to grant us more access to the set and equipment than we would’ve had otherwise.

What we’re making: Basically it’s a dramatic post-apocalyptic short film about three friends who are spending their last night together after one of them got infected by the virus wiping out their world and will die in the morning.

Oh, and it’s pretty gay. 

This is our set:

Why we’re making it: Have you seen a lot of gay horror films? I had been tossing around the idea of writing one even before Whitney approached me to come up with something for this set, and we’re pretty psyched to follow through with it.

On a personal level, it’s been a long time since I’ve written something specifically that I wanted to write. If you know me, you probably know me from working on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and that was a lot of fun! we told cool stories! i’m happy with some of it! But it’s always different working on someone else’s vision vs working on your own. 

I’m also directing this film, which is something I haven’t done since college, because I let myself fall prey to the “haha women aren’t directors, why try” mindset, and that was really stupid. Fortunately, it’s never too late to correct idiocy, and I’m excited to get back to doing something I actually quite enjoyed.

Okay, so what about the money: We hate crowdfunding. I think everyone does. I LOVE getting people involved and invested in what we’re doing, but asking for money is a bummer. However, getting a free professionally crafted set and access to free equipment saves us literally thousands and thousands of dollars, so this is probably the cheapest we’ll ever be able to make a short film for, unless we straight up don’t pay cast and crew, which is shitty and we’re never doing that. $5k is the absolute minimum we can do this for. It’s underpaying our talent and crew, not getting quite the things we need to make this what we’d like it to be, and just praying nothing goes wrong. Ideally we need a couple thousand more than that, even, but we’re committed to making this, so we’ll do what we can.

But will it really happen: Yes! Being in this writing workshop means we’re on a specific timeline we have to meet. Our script will be basically locked this week. We’re casting next week. We shoot October 8th and 9th. We have to turn in a final cut the week of October 19th. And we go live on YouTube the week of Halloween. So this will be a super fast turn around for a short film, especially one done through crowdfunding. Two months! Hooray! (Yikes……)

Anyway, thank you for reading! Please check out the campaign if you haven’t already. Please share if you feel so inclined! And if you have any additional questions, please feel more than free to contact me directly and I will do my best to answer!

My favorite thing to come from watching literary webseries is the concept of “The Thing”. Everyone who knows the source material sits on the edge of their seats waiting for it, trying to figure out how it will happen. Those who don’t get nervous seeing the vague posts from those who do. “The Thing” is what keeps people on edge and it’s what keeps people watching.