For those of you in the Boston area, I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the monthly meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Massachusetts branch. The topic of my talk is Austen’s Accidental Afterlife: Jane and her Regency World in Modern Fiction. The event is free for JASNA-MA members, $5 for non-members. For more…

Tomorrow night, I’ll be joining three mystery writers for a group reading at 8:00 in the back room of Bar 82 (136 2nd Avenue, near St. Marks, at 10th Street). I’ll be reading from The Garden Intrigue. There won’t be books for sale, so please feel free to bring books from home. I’m happy to…

Want to see what it looks like to have three hundred authors all in one room? Venture out to the Hyatt Regency O’Hare Hotel (just don’t try to say that three times fast) in Rosement, IL today between 11:00 and 2:00. Authors will be seated alphabetically, so bring your favorite Pink books and come visit…

As National Library Week continues, I’ll be speaking tonight at Evergreen Park Public Library. The event kicks off at 7:00. If you can’t make it, come visit me on Saturday at the mass book signing at the Romantic Times Convention. (Hyatt O’Hare Hotel, Rosement IL, Saturday, 11:00-2:00.)

Come help me celebrate National Library Week by joining me tonight at Indian Prairie Public Library in Darien, IL! The event starts at 7:00. If you can’t make the event, but would like a signed book, just contact Anderson’s Bookshop.

I’m going to be back in Illinois this week for three appearances (three, of course, being the fairy-tale-approved amount for just about anything). On Wednesday evening at 7:00, I’ll be speaking and signing at the Indian Prairie Public Library in Darien, Illinois (401 Plainfield Road). For more about the event, just click here. On Thursday…

First up, it’s my birthday tomorrow (bye bye, early thirties!), so I’d like to invite you all to come celebrate with me here on the News Page. I may not be able to bring cupcakes, but I will be giving away other party favors. Looking ahead to other, non-birthday events, I’m very excited to be…

Today is a multi-media day for me. I’ll be airing on Literary New England tonight at eight o’clock (or thereabouts) to discuss the Pink books, why I respect romance fiction, and many other rambling sorts of things. Amended to add: it’s a multi-author program, so I probably won’t be on until nine or a little…

If you’re in town, come join me, Joanna Bourne, Cathy Maxwell and Deanna Raybourn at the Barnes & Noble at 1035A Emmet Street at noon today. We’ll be chatting about Pistols, Petticoats and Poison— or something like that. Sometimes, we go off on tangents….

Come join me in Charlottesville, VA this Saturday for the Virginia Festival of the Book! I have the great privilege to be speaking on a panel with Deanna Raybourn, Joanna Bourne, and Cathy Maxwell. We’ll be talking Pistols, Petticoats and Poisons: Researching History and Writing Fiction at noon at the Barnes & Noble at 1035A…