Blood Lily
The Winner of the 13th Annual Pinkorama Contest Is….
So many thanks to this year’s Pinkorama participants! It’s always like Christmas crossed with a birthday when your entries arrive in my inbox: the surprise of seeing what you’ve picked to depict this year and the sheer joy of seeing the beauty you’ve made. I am, as always, in utter awe of your peep-craft. This…
Read MoreThe 2023 Pinkorama Round-Up
Calling all 2023 Pinkorama participants to take a bow! It’s time for the 2023 Pinkorama Round Up! This year, we’ve got an Italian count and his art collection, Teddy Roosepeep and his Rough Peepers, Eloise hard at work in the library at Selpeep Hall, love among the weeds in 1805 Hyderabad, three generations of Peeps…
Read MorePinkorama #4: “In the Weeds” from “The Betrayal of the Peep Lily”
For our fourth Pinkorama of 2023, returning Pinkorama champions Carrie and Laura bring us… “In the Weeds” from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily! (If you haven’t read Blood Lily yet and intend to, this scene is a bit of a spoiler, so you might want to move on. If you have read Blood Lily—…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Month 6: THE BETRAYAL OF THE BLOOD LILY
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in to discuss The Temptation of the Night Jasmine last week! Are you ready to head to India? It’s July, which means… it’s time to follow the disgraced Penelope Deveraux (now Lady Frederick Staines) across the seas in The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. This book is my riff…
Read MoreThe 2019 Pinkorama Round-Up
So many thanks to all of this year’s Pinkorama participants! Every year, I wonder, how can these possibly live up to last year’s? And every year you somehow manage to raise the bar! This year, we’ve got ricocheting billiard balls, Star Wars memorabilia, sinking ships, and sugary skullduggery in 19th century Hyderabad. It’s impossible to…
Read MorePinkorama #4: “Showdown at Peep’s Tomb”
Last, but not least, for our fourth and last Pinkorama, Candace and Cassandra bring us “Showdown at Peep’s Tomb”, from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. This year we present Chapter 31 of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. The scene is Peep’s Tomb in Hyderabad, a great spot with a hidey-hole filled with truth, treason,…
Read MoreReidiad Winners
The winners of the The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, and The Lure of the Moonflower are…. — Jennifer (of Comment #16). — Steph (of Comment #34). — Georgia (of Comment #48). — Kathleen (of Comment #4). Congrats, all! If you email me at willig@post.harvard.edu, I’ll pop your Reids–…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: the Reidiad
When I introduced Alex Reid, way back in Pink VI, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, I initially had no idea that the Reid family would take over the Pink series. Then Alex’s father popped up, around about Chapter Two of Blood Lily, and I knew, instantly, that there was the man for Miss Gwen.…
Read MoreAsk the Author Day: BLOOD LILY
The Pink For All Seasons Read-Along is chugging along over at the Bubblebath Reader! Today wraps up the group read of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily— which means it’s Ask the Author Day! Do you have any questions about Blood Lily? Just pop over there and put your question in the Comments section and…
Read MoreTalking BLOOD LILY with Rose Lerner– and Give Away!
The lovely Rose Lerner has a Regency romance out, Sweet Disorder, featuring a widowed heroine. In honor of its release, she interviewed a bunch of us who also have what she calls “Dead First Husband” books. Rose distilled the essence of those interviews into a post about the dead first husband trope on Heroes and…
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