Pinkorama
Pinkorama #1: “The Passion of the Peeple Plumeria”
I am delighted to present the 2019 Pinkoramae! The first of this year’s amazing Peep creations comes from the sister team of Laura Parker and Carrie Morrell, who are proud to present The Passion of the Peeple Plumeria, or, Billiard Balls on Cue, from Pink Carnation Book X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. In this…
Read MorePinkorama Deadline Extended to Sunday
Do you have Peeps and an empty weekend? There’s still a chance to enter this year’s Pinkorama! Since it belatedly dawned on me that I will be at a book festival all weekend, and thus unable to put up pictures of Peep creations on the website, I’m extending the deadline to midnight on Sunday. You…
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Spring is on the calendar (if not quite yet in the air), which means… it’s Pinkorama time! Yes, that’s right: it’s the 9th Annual Pinkorama (aka Pink Carnation Peep Diorama) Contest. The rules are simple: using those sugary, marshmallowy goodies (Peeps), recreate your favorite scene from any one of my books, novellas, or short stories.…
Read MoreThe 2018 Pinkorama Winner is….
Well, really, I think we’re all winners of the Pinkorama, for getting to enjoy such clever and well-crafted scenes! This has been a banner year for the Pinkorama and I’m so grateful to all the entrants for bringing theses scenes so brilliantly to peep. By popular vote, the winner of the 2018 Pinkorama is… The…
Read MoreThe 2018 Pinkorama Round-Up
So many thanks to all of this year’s Pinkorama participants! Last year’s Pinkoramae set a high bar, but these have exceeded all expectations. We have Gilded Age peeps and Regency peeps and peep videos and a killer Jacobite cat. Who could ask for anything more? It’s impossible to choose just one favorite out of so…
Read MorePinkorama #7: "The Peepinese Chamber"
For our seventh and final 2018 Pinkorama, Candace and Cassandra bring us… “The Peepinese Chamber”, from The Seduction of the Crimson Peep. Candace and Cassandra write: In The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, Miss Mary Alsworthy, an incomparable beauty but unlikely heroine, experiences Lord Vaughn’s Chinese Chamber. This room of iniquity, first introduced in The…
Read MorePinkorama #6: "The American peep takes on 'The World' news"
For our sixth day of Pinkorama, Colleen and Pam bring us “The American peep takes on ‘The World’ news”, taken from The English Wife. In the bitter cold winter of 1899, well-bred spinster Janie Van Duyvil takes the unthinkable step of seeking out a reporter at the World building on Park Row, determined to discover…
Read MorePinkorama #5: "The Deception of the Emerald Peep"
For our fifth Pinkorama, Rachel brings us “The Deception of the Emerald Peep”, from Chapter Thirteen of Pink III, The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Rachel writes, “Jane has invited Letty to her house in order to reveal the true nature of her– and Miss Gwen’s– relationship with Geoff. Dual identities and mistaken impressions are…
Read MorePinkorama #4: "Can the World Buy Such a Peep?"
For our fourth Pinkorama, Freya brings us Lord Vaughn and Miss Mary Alsworthy in “Can the World Buy Such a Peep?”, taken from Chapter Ten of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose. (Text by Freya with occasional parenthetical interpolations by the author.) Sebastian, Lord Vaughn appears dramatically in the Chinese chamber. (Because, of course, Lord…
Read MorePinkorama #3: "The English Peep"
Our third Pinkorama takes us to upstate New York in the bitter cold winter of 1899. Kayse brings us “The English Peep”, from the stand alone novel, The English Wife. Kayse writes: “The scene is, of course, the wintery gardens of Illyria, during the Van Duyvils’ Twelfth Night masquerade ball.” Check out those amazing Renaissance…
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