Happy Valentine’s Day, gentle reader! In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are three links. (I feel like the Count who Counts: “One! One link! Two! Two links!”) — My traditional Valentine’s Day post, on my favorite fictional declarations of love. — Henrietta and Miles’s first Valentine’s Day together: Bunny & Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine’s…

Just around this time three years ago, I was between books. I started toying with a few different projects. One was a sweeping epic about two cousins, beginning around the turn of the century, and moving up through the 1920s. (You may recognize that one as The Ashford Affair.) The other was a novel about…

Time for the Scottish Sock Puppets’ rendition of Twelve Days of Christmas! Can’t you just imagine Turnip’s version?

How neat is this? Someone took a line from The Orchid Affair and turned it into a poster! That’s Eloise speaking, as she examines the book stalls by the Seine. Huge thanks to Charis for bringing the link to my attention! Meanwhile, elsewhere on the internet, you can find me over at Confessions of a…

Lady B is putting together her Rustication Reading List. Even if she isn’t quite sure whether she’s rusticating in Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, or Hampshire. Where one presumes that hurricanes hardly ever happen?

Don’t mind me, I’m just channeling the Count Counts. Sharlene sent me this adorable video featuring the covers of all the books in the Pink series– all ten of them. Kind of bizarre that we’re up to double digits already, no? Even more appropriately, when The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, comes…

Happy June! I know it’s not really officially summer until later this month, but the beginning of June always marks the beginning of summer to me. I have a stockpile of books on hand for this summer. Currently waiting for me are: — the second and third books in C.S. Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr series,…

One of my favorite books of this year, Beatriz Williams’s A Hundred Summers, comes out today! Here’s the official blurb: Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that…