Laurie Viera Rigler schreibt Romane, die spielerisch Elemente wie Zeitreisen und Körpertausch kombinieren. Ihre Kurzgeschichten und Webserien lassen sich von der klassischen Literatur inspirieren und setzen sich auf erfinderische Weise mit ihren Charakteren und Themen auseinander. Rigler konzentriert sich auf moderne Neuinterpretationen bekannter Erzählungen, die bei zeitgenössischen Lesern Anklang finden. Ihre Werke bieten eine einzigartige Perspektive auf zeitlose literarische Motive.
"Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict" took 21st-century, free-spirit Courtney Stone into the social confines of Jane Austen's era. This follow-up introduces Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, who inexplicably awakens in Courtney's overly wired and morally confused L.A. life.
Courtney Stone - sassy, smart and suddenly single - has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen's England. She senses that she would have found soul mates in Emma and Elinor, and through good times and bad Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice have been her secret under-the-duvet pleasures. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza, Absolut, and Elizabeth and Darcy, Courtney wakes up in nineteenth-century England, in the bed (not to mention the slim and svelte body) of a girl called Jane Mansfield. At first she thinks this has to be some sort of weird dream, but slowly she becomes used to the absence of toothpaste and fat-free food, and finds herself actually enjoying Jane's life. Perhaps she could do without her wicked new 'mother' who wants to marry Jane off as soon as possible to the nearest wealthy man ... although this may not be such a bad thing, as the nearest wealthy man just happens to be the very dishy Charles Edgeworth. But, in becoming Jane, Courtney has left some important unfinished business behind, and she soon realises that in order to return to the present day she needs not only to solve the riddle of Jane and Charles but to get to grips with her own twenty-first-century relationship phobias along the way.