Pinkorama
Pinkorama #3: THE EAGLE PEEPS ONLY ONCE
For our third Pinkorama, Laura and Carrie present to us… Rossio Square: The Eagle Peeps Only Once, or, Love at First Peep. It’s the final book of the Pink Carnation series, The Lure of the Moonflower. Or, to get us in scene, it’s Lisbon, 1807. The Portuguese royal family has fled to Brazil just moments…
Read MorePinkorama #2: THE ASHPEEP AFFAIR
It’s 1926 and a train is chugging its way into the station in Nairobi. For our second Pinkorama, Carla brings us… The Ashpeep Affair. In this scene, Addie has just traveled from England to Kenya to visit her cousin Bea, and, after coming all that way, she’s not quite sure she actually wants to be…
Read MorePinkorama #1: THAT SUMMER
Or perhaps Peep Summer? For our very first 2017 Pinkorama, Randy brings us a scene from That Summer. It’s the summer of 2009, and Julia, jobless thanks to the recession, has just flown out to London to inspect the house she unexpectedly inherited from a great-aunt she can’t remember. The house holds many surprises for…
Read MoreLast Call for Pinkoramae!
I’ll be accepting submissions for the 7th Annual Pink Carnation Peep Diorama Contest up through midnight tonight! So if you have a last minute Peep inspiration, now’s your chance. You can find the contest description and rules here. The really fun part starts tomorrow! I’ll post each Pinkorama in the order in which I received…
Read MoreReady… Peep… Go!
Are you ready for the 7th Annual Pink Carnation Peep Diorama Contest? It’s spring, which means… it’s Pinkorama time! The rules are simple: using those sugary, marshmallowy goodies (Peeps), recreate your favorite scene from any one of my books, novellas, or short stories. There are the Pink books, for Napoleonic Peeps; The Ashford Affair, just…
Read More"Peepmas at Girdings": a MISTLETOE Pinkorama
On the Twelfth Day of Turnip, Candace and Cassandra present… “Peepmas at Girdings”. I love that this combines both The Temptation of the Night Jasmine and The Mischief of the Mistletoe. As the house party at Girdings goes out into the woods to collect the Yuletide greenery on Christmas Eve, we can find Charlotte, in…
Read More"The Mispeep of the Mistletoe": a MISTLETOE Pinkorama
On the sixth day of Turnip, we have… another Mistletoe Pinkorama! In this rendition, by Sarah, Turnip looks on through the window as an agitated Miss Climpson informs Lizzy that, “We do not sit on people!” Sally appears to have fallen over the chair again. Next to the pageant, this is one of my favorite…
Read More"A Peepingly Good Time at Farley Castle": A MISTLETOE Pinkorama
On the second day of Turnip, my author gave to me… a Mistletoe Pinkorama by Pam and Colleen! Pam and Colleen describe the scene: Starring Jane Austen in maroon, Arabella in brown, Turnip in pink, and Lord Vaughn in black and red with Mary Vaughn in a red and green cape glaring at the happy…
Read MoreCongratulations, Pinkorama Winners!
Because every Pinkorama this year was, without doubt, a winner, the dominant theme in the voting being, “But how? How can you make me choose?” The Convent of Peepsino edged out slightly ahead (Miss Gwen preens and blows a speck of dust off the tip of her parasol), but it was such a close-run thing…
Read MorePinkorama 2016 Round-Up
Hats off to Kayse, Rachel, Candace, Cassandra, and Colleen for this year’s gorgeous Pinkoramas (aka Pink Carnation Peep Dioramas)! They run the gamut from pseudo-medieval books within books to Napoleonic to 1920s to modern. Here, in the order in which they were received, are the Pinkoramas of 2016: 1. The Convent of Peepsino, by Kayse,…
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