Ashford Affair
Teaser Tuesday: Ashford Park
Part of the fun of writing The Ashford Affair was getting to design my own imaginary English great house: Ashford Park. Even more interesting? Figuring out how a modern American woman would react to learning that her grandmother had grown up in such a place. Here, for your amusement, is the snippet from Chapter Two…
Read MorePick Your Time Period….
The Ashford Affair boomerangs around over a rather large stretch of time on three different continents. Over on the Contest page, there’s a contest running, asking which time period you’d rather live in: 1999 New York, Edwardian England, Jazz Age London, or 1920s Kenya. The drawback to this is that I can’t see any of…
Read MoreBook Release Schedule
Now that I have pictures (because pictures always make a website post look better), here’s the book release schedule for the coming year: — December 31, 2012: The Garden Intrigue (trade paperback). Available for pre-order from Amazon, B&N, Books-a-Million, Indiebound, and your favorite local independent bookstore. — April 9, 2013: The Ashford Affair (hardcover). Available…
Read MoreASHFORD: The E-Book!
Late breaking news! The Ashford Affair is now available for pre-order on Kindle! (Oh, and I have a new author photo. That’s it next to Ashford. After six years of the same author photo, it seemed like time…. This one far more accurately reflects the current length of my hair!) Ashford doesn’t seem to be…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Ashford Redux
As I try to hammer my way through the first few chapters of my second stand alone novel, I’ve been thinking a lot about book beginnings, all the false starts that we forget about once the book has safely taken shape. The header on all of my old files for The Ashford Affair is Ashford…
Read MoreContest- for real this time!
My amazing webmistress has fixed the contest problem– so head over to the Contest page and enter to win an ARC of The Ashford Affair!
Read MoreWin an advance copy of ASHFORD!
The very first of the Ashford Affair ARC contests is up on the Contest page!
Read MoreASHFORD en Francais!
I am thrilled to announce that there will be a French edition of The Ashford Affair! So far, The Ashford Affair will be available in: — English (St. Martin’s Press) — French (Presses de la Cite) — German (Rowohlt) — Italian (Fabbri) — Polish (Amber) — Spanish (Espasa) If I hear of others, I’ll let…
Read MoreUpcoming Contests!
First of all, huge thanks to everyone for the fantastic contest ideas. Thanks to you, I now have a Grand Contest Plan for my three Ashford Affair ARCs. The first contest will appear September 15th on the Contest page, using Angel B’s fabulous question suggestion (I’d post it here now, but only answers on the…
Read MoreContest Ideas?
I have three or four advance review copies of The Ashford Affair that need good homes and a brand new Contest page to play with, but I’m fresh out of contest ideas. Any suggestions?
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