Pink X
Teaser Tuesday: Bunny-on-the-Wold
I’m learning all sorts of interesting things about my characters, old and new, as I write The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. Among other things, for the very first time, we get to see Miles in situ in his family home, not Loring House in London, but the familial seat in Hampshire. It’s situated outside…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Breaking the Rules
On internet message boards and at writers’ conferences, one hears all sorts of bizarre do’s and don’ts about novel writing. I’m very glad I didn’t know about any of these before writing the first Pink book, since that book, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, broke several of those so-called rules. It was set…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Inversion of the Tropes
Yesterday, as I was polishing off Chapter Thirteen of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, I had a Deep Thought. Okay, maybe it wasn’t that deep, but midway through the book is usually the point where plots and patterns start to become clear to me and I begin to pick up on themes, trends, and…
Read MoreInformal Poll
As Miss Gwen zigzags her way through England in pursuit of those disappearing schoolgirls, it looks like she might wind up breaking for a night at the ancestral country estate of the Viscounts Loring (aka, the Dorringtons). Most of the other great houses in the Pink books have a name. We know that Turnip lives…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Pink X Mega-Outtake
You don’t usually see much of my books while they’re in progress. They change around on me too much for me to risk showing you something that might not be there in the final version. In this case, though, you’re getting that rare beast: a hot off the presses outtake from Pink X, aka The…
Read MoreUpcoming Books
I now have release dates for all this year’s upcoming books! Ready for it? Here we go…. — December 31, 2012: The Garden Intrigue (paperback). Currently available for pre-order from Amazon, B&N, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Powell’s. — April 2, 2013: The Ashford Affair (hardcover). Currently available for pre-order from Amazon, B&N, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Powell’s.…
Read MorePink X: The Purple Plumeria
It’s time for an update on Pink X: The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. We have a release date! If Amazon (Japan) is to be believed, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria will be making its way into bookstores on August 6, 2013. I also have a little announcement to make about it. Unlike the…
Read MorePink X has a title!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Weekly Reading Round-Up for this special announcement: Pink X has a title! Miss Gwen’s book, coming out in summer 2013, will henceforth officially be known as THE PASSION OF THE PURPLE PLUMERIA. Here’s the official description: Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who…
Read MoreMore News
I know, it’s not a Tuesday, but I wanted to share this news as soon as I knew for sure. Many of you have been asking me what will become of the Pink series now that I’m also writing non-Pink books. As of today, I can say that there will, in fact, be more Pink…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Pink X
You know how I say not to trust what I post in advance because my plots tend to change on me? Well, sometimes the whole book changes on me. This has happened twice before. The first time was in 2006 with Pink IV. I had Charlotte’s story all plotted out and then Mary and Vaughn…
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