Teaser Tuesdays
Teaser Tuesday: Pink XI
You know how I said over in the FAQs that we were going to be finishing up the series with Pink XI with Jane’s book? This is exactly why it also says in the FAQs that when I say these things, you should take it with a grain of salt. Or great gobs of salt.…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Back at the Ranch
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…. You may have noticed that posting has been a little erratic here recently. I’d love to claim technological gremlins (those convenient little scapegoats), but the truth is that I’ve been working full speed ahead on the next stand alone novel, which should be, cross fingers, knock on wood, turned in…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: PURPLE PLUMERIA Reader Guide
First of all, huge thanks to everyone who helped me out with questions for Parts I and II of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria Readers’ Guide! I couldn’t have written it without you. Part II of the Readers’ Guide is a relatively straightforward Q&A. (I say “relatively” because it’s Miss Gwen asking the questions.)…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Ashford 1919
Since this is Downton homage week, this seemed like a good time to give you a little snippet of the postwar portion of The Ashford Affair. It’s the social Season of 1919, crepe paper instead of flowers in the ballrooms and a marked lack of able-bodied escorts. The world has changed… but not everyone has…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: GARDEN-o-Rama!
As many of you know, The Garden Intrigue is being released in paperback at the end of this month. Hidden away in the Teaser Tuesday archives is a wealth of background information on The Garden Intrigue— so now seemed like a good time to take those posts out of the vault and dust them off.…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Before ASHFORD
Every character has a backstory– and every backstory has a backstory. When I was working on The Ashford Affair, I was particularly struck by this, by all the stories, stretching back generation after generation, each shaping the next. When we meet my historical heroine, Addie, in 1906, her parents have just died in an omnibus…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Ashford Park
Part of the fun of writing The Ashford Affair was getting to design my own imaginary English great house: Ashford Park. Even more interesting? Figuring out how a modern American woman would react to learning that her grandmother had grown up in such a place. Here, for your amusement, is the snippet from Chapter Two…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Ashford Redux
As I try to hammer my way through the first few chapters of my second stand alone novel, I’ve been thinking a lot about book beginnings, all the false starts that we forget about once the book has safely taken shape. The header on all of my old files for The Ashford Affair is Ashford…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Eloise & Colin in Pink X
I really should stop calling it Pink X and start calling it The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, shouldn’t I? Old habits die hard. As we all try to get back to work after the long weekend, here’s a little something to lighten up that first back-to-school Tuesday: the complete, unabridged first modern chapter of…
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…
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