Teaser Tuesdays
Teaser 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 MoreTeaser Tuesday: Why Plumeria?
Last week, I announced the release date of Pink X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (aka Miss Gwen’s book). Over on Facebook, Anya posed an excellent question: why plumeria? Here’s an entirely disorganized list of reasons why: — I needed a flower that began with the letter P. It’s not just because P is…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Why 1999?
Last week, I posted Chapter One of The Ashford Affair. The book goes back and forth between England in the 1910s and early 1920s, Kenya in the mid to late 1920s, and New York in 1999. If the New York bit is meant to be the modern portion, why 1999? Other than the fact that…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Meet Clemmie
Like the Pink books, The Ashford Affair goes back and forth between the historical story and the present day. (Well, almost present day. It’s 1999 in the world of the book, which is longer ago than it should be.) In this instance, my modern heroine is Clemmie, a thirty-four year old associate at a major…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: ASHFORD Origins
The Ashford Affair, my 1920s book, arose out of the confluence of three things: 1) A friend gave me Frances Osborne’s book, The Bolter, about the life of Idina Sackville, the much-married socialite who bounced back and forth between husbands and between London and Kenya. What really struck me about the book was the foreword,…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Vaughn is Back
Well, sort of. You know how The Ashford Affair is meant to be non-Pink and stand alone and all of those fun things? It is– for the most part. With one notable exception: Vaughn. Or rather, the spawn of Vaughn. (Sorry, I just couldn’t resist the way it rhymed.) In 1926, a particularly decadent set…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: DARE ME
Last summer, I found myself in an odd gap between books. I had handed in The Garden Intrigue freakishly early. While waiting to hear about more Pink books, I’d started writing a rather different novel, set in Kenya in the 1920s, but was waiting for publisher feedback before continuing with it, unsure whether anyone would…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: More Miss Gwen
Things I have learned about Miss Gwen over the course of writing her first chapter eighteen times: — She has a huge sweet tooth. Jane may take her morning chocolate straight, but Gwen stirs three teaspoons of sugar into hers. Those are heaping teaspoons of sugar, not the little skimpy ones. — She’s in far…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Miss Gwen's Novel
I usually don’t share bits from Works in Progress until they’re no longer in progress– partly because I’m never entirely sure it’s really going to turn into a book until it’s done and partly because I never know what I’m going to change or cut during the editorial phases. But this time, I just couldn’t…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Miss Gwen
As many of you know, I’m currently working on Miss Gwen’s book, oh so cleverly titled Pink X. Miss Gwen is being, shall we say… obstructive. I’m currently on the eighteenth version of Chapter One. Let’s hope that this is the final one. I’d love to say that this is unusual, but it isn’t. Some…
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