Black Tulip
BLACK TULIP Quotations
The Pink Quotation Compendium continues! This week, I’m collecting quotes from The Masque of the Black Tulip. What are your favorite Black Tulip lines? As a thank you, one person will be chosen at random to receive a Black Tulip mug.
Read MoreFive Days….
With five days to go until the New Year, let’s go back to 2006 and The Masque of the Black Tulip. I had a really, really hard time picking a favorite passage from this book. There’s just so much about Black Tulip that amuses me, from Turnip Fitzhugh’s appearance as a giant carnation to Geoff’s…
Read MoreBefore and After
Most of my books have retained the same cover as they moved from hardcover to paperback. Two– The Masque of the Black Tulip and The Betrayal of the Blood Lily— have undergone dramatic transformations. For fun, here are the before and after pictures: The Masque of the Black Tulip (2005, 2006): The Betrayal of the…
Read MoreBLACK TULIP in the Spotlight
The Masque of the Black Tulip is just popping up all over the place these days! Being reviewed in AAR, on the old cover of The Mischief of the Mistletoe… and now as a staff recommendation in the Barnes & Nobles in St. George, Utah. Thanks to the staff members at B&N and to Natalie…
Read MoreA new cover for MISTLETOE
Never say you don’t have an impact. After all the discussion here and on Facebook about the similarities between the covers of The Mischief of the Mistletoe and The Masque of the Black Tulip, the Dutton art department raced back to the drawing board and whipped up a whole new cover. (Apparently, the duplication was…
Read MoreDeja Vu
You guessed it! The picture on the cover of The Mischief of the Mistletoe, “A Summer Rose” by Francois Martin-Kavel, made its Pink Carnation debut in fall of 2006 with the paperback edition of The Masque of the Black Tulip. She looks quite different with the her head intact, doesn’t she?
Read MoreBack at Pink II….
There was a lovely review of The Masque of the Black Tulip on All About Romance today. Reviewer Blythe Barnhill called Miles and Henrietta “simply delightful”, commenting, “I adored Miles and Henrietta. I absolutely loved them, and everything about their relationship. It felt authentic to me in every way”. What better compliment could an author…
Read MoreMini-Contest #5– and Turnip Book Excerpt!
Only three days left until BLOOD LILY!!!!! I found it incredibly amusing that the first answer to yesterday’s contest concerned a conjunction of Lord Vaughn and Turnip Fitzhugh, while the second involved Turnip and the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. Because, in fact, both of those occur in Turnip’s book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe (coming…
Read MoreMore fun with casting…
… from Miss Eliza! What do you think of her choice for Henrietta? (Who, by the way, once again absolutely swept the character popularity contest, beating out Amy, Letty, Mary, and all the guys.) For more fun with casting, you can also check out other peoples’ picks on Storycasting.
Read MoreBeyond Her Book
The Masque of the Black Tulip is featured today in a lovely post on Barbara Vey’s blog, Beyond Her Book.
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