A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words - Only with You

Today’s guest post is by Cecilia Gray, author of Only With You

ONLY WITH YOU is a modern retelling of Emma, a Jane Austen novel, with the main character re-imagined as a teenage girl who is trying to set up her friend with an ex-boyfriend, only to have her friend display interest in the guy that Emma wants.

The problem with a retelling is someone is always thinking of your material as less than the original, which is always true because your retelling can never have all the elements of an original.

So I thought I’d do a retelling of Emma entirely in reaction GIFs, because at least my book will feel like more than that!

So, for your pleasure, Emma…in 12 GIFs…(from the Emma Watson Tumblr…)

My name is Emma. I’m pretty, nice, and everyone loves me.

I just matchmade my governess and now she’s crazy happy. I must be some kind of matchmaking genius.

My friend Knightley doesn’t agree. Shows how much he knows. I will totally matchmake the crap out of someone and then he’ll have to admit I’m awesome. This girl seems hopeless. I’ll help her.

She thinks she’s in love with someone else,

but I’m going to bestow my good wisdom on her. She’s soooo lucky.

I’ll just tell her how to behave and we’re good to go…

Ugh, why is Knightley getting in my face about this???? He sucks.

Oh no, he was right! Turns out the guy I tried to match my friend with is a total snob and a jerk. Now she’s all alone.

I’m so annoyed that maybe I was a little mean to my friends and now Knightley is giving me the cold shoulder.

I don’t why I care, I mean, why would I? Unless I love him. OMG. I love him.

Except he doesn’t love me. Oh crap. FML.

Oh wait, he does love me. Phew.

Only With You Book Cover — Cover courtesy Xpresso Tours

Only With You by Cecilia Gray
(The Jane Austen Academy Series #5)
Publication date: May 2014
Genres: Romance, Young Adult

Synopsis:
Dive into the fabulous, fun lives of six Academy girls as their friendships are tested, torn and ultimately triumph…

Emma has it all – looks, money, and luck. It’s not like she keeps it all to herself – she’s totally committed to helping those less fortunate. AKA, everyone. She invites her heartbroken friend to help with a weekend charity event with an eye to matchmake, but when that friend turns her eye toward the guy Emma wants for herself, how will she choose between friendship and her own feelings?

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The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with. But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. And it’s about to turn the Academy—and the lives of its students—totally upside down…

The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beachside California boarding school.

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About The Author

Cecilia Gray lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she reads, writes and breaks for food. She also pens her biographies in the third person. Like this. As if to trick you into thinking someone else wrote it because she is important. Alas, this is not the case.

She’s rather enamored of being contacted by readers and hopes you’ll oblige.