Hybrid Author Talk: Ladies in Waiting, Nikki Payne & Diana Quincy

Date and Time

• Tuesday, Nov 4, 2025  7pm - 8pm

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East City Bookshop welcomes back Nikki Payne and Diana Quincy to discuss the new short story anthology: Ladies in Waiting.

Note on Format: This hybrid event will have both an in-person component with limited seating as well as a virtual broadcast via Zoom Webinar. Both in-person and virtual attendees will be able to pose questions to the author during audience Q&A.

ABOUT LADIES IN WAITING

Celebrate Jane Austen’s classic novels with this short story anthology starring forgotten characters as they experience their own happy endings.

In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come together with wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen’s minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant of Sense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams and much more. Blurring genres and taking us across the oceans, Ladies in Waiting is a heartfelt celebration of Jane Austen and her timeless masterpieces.

Nikki Payne is the author of Pride and Protest and Sex, Lies, and Sensibility. By day, Nikki Payne is a curious tech anthropologist asking the right questions to deliver better digital services. By night, she dreams of ways to subvert canon literature. She’s a member of Smut U, a premium feminist writing collective, and is a cat lady with no cats.

Diana Quincy is the bestselling author of the Accidental Peers series. As a US Foreign Service brat, Diana grew up all over the world but is now happily settled in Virginia with her husband and two sons. When not bent over her laptop, Diana spends time with her family, reads, practices yoga and plots her next travel adventure.