An Unpleasant Exercise in Plagiarism

I haven’t been around much this week.  There are so many things I’d meant to post about, from this week’s Find That Book (ghost stories!) to a give away for ARCs of Two Wars and a Wedding on Goodreads.  But I haven’t done any of that because instead I found myself plunged into a deeply…

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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION Discussion Thread

Thanks so much to everyone who joined me tonight at the Pink Zoom meeting!  And so many apologies to everyone who tried to join, but whose join now button didn’t work.  I’m trying to figure out what happened so it won’t happen again next time! The video did livestream to Facebook, and I’m going to…

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Pink Carnation Book Club Tonight!

Is everyone else as excited as I am for tonight’s first Pink Carnation Read Along Book Club Zoom?  (Okay, I really have to think of a shorter title for these!!  Pink Zoom?)   In any event, we’re going to be an intimate group of 500!!  And Sarah has told me she “has questions” for me,…

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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION Discussion Thread

We’re halfway through Month 1 of the Pink Carnation Read Along! Have you been reading The Secret History of the Pink Carnation?  Do you have thoughts to share? Post your thoughts below in the first discussion thread of the Pink Carnation Read Along!  (You can also find a discussion thread over on my Facebook author…

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Pink Carnation Read Along: Month 1

It’s time to plunge into the world of the Pink Carnation with a year long Pink Carnation Read Along! Brush off your copy of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, pull out your brightest pink sweater, your Regency garb, or your comfiest sheep slippers (because, you know, Wooliston), or all of the above, make…

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The 2020 Pinkorama Round-Up

Calling all 2020 Pinkorama participants to take a bow!  (Or curtsy.) After six days of superlative sugary creations, it’s time for the 2020 Pinkorama Round Up!  This year, we’ve got nativity plays gone wrong, a pirate as parson, flying attack stoats, an unusually tongue-tied poet, a Victorian parlor in Barbados, and a botched elopement in the…

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Pinkorama #2: Wedding Peeps!

Our second Pinkorama comes from Sharon, who brings us… the wedding of the Purple Gentian from The Secret History of the Peep Carnation! Even Bonaparte can’t stop true love.  With the dastardly Gaston Delaroche thwarted, the unmasked Purple Gentian and the always undaunted Amy Balcourt take to the high seas– and matrimony. It’s not every…

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On the second day of give aways…

… my author gave to me, four e-copies of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation! Sadly, no poultry here– no partridges or calling birds or French hens or even a chicken (Sally Fitzhugh wouldn’t allow it), but there are some 19th century French spies running around and one modern American grad student who’s rather…

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Pinkorama #2: The Secret History of the Peep Carnation

In our second Pinkorama, Carla and Rowan bring you Miss Gwendolyn Meadows, her parasol at the ready, in The Secret History of the Peep Carnation. It’s 1803. After many stifling years in her brother’s home (is that chimney smoking?), Miss Gwendolyn Meadows is seizing her chance to escape into the world as chaperone to her…

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Pink Carnation: $2.99!

They seek him here; they seek him there… and, in e-book, the Pink Carnation is currently $2.99 everywhere! I’m not quite sure how long this price drop will last (the author is always the last to know), but, for the moment, the first book in the Pink Carnation series is $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, Kobo,…

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