Teaser Tuesdays
Teaser Tuesday: a Hodgepodge
There’s rather a lot going on in my world right now, so, instead of the normal Teaser Tuesday, here’s a hodgepodge of recent and upcoming happenings. I’ve just been sent the new UK cover for The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Mistletoe appears in stores over there on 28 November. (We’ll be getting our own paperback…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Big News
Way back in March and April, some of you canny folks noticed that my Weekly Reading Round-Ups were leaning heavily towards the 1920s, with a high proportion of non-fiction in among the novels. The official announcement came out in Publishers Weekly yesterday, so I’m finally at liberty to say…. You guessed right. I’ve been writing…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Georgette Heyer
Since today is Georgette Heyer’s 109th birthday, it seemed a good time to share some of the ways in which Heyer has influenced the Pink books. I’ll confess: I was not initially a fan of Heyer. I picked up my first Heyer back in sixth grade, primarily because there was a quote from Judith McNaught…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: "Two L"
As announced last week, I’ll be exhuming my old law school satire, Two L, from the vault of lost novels later this month. Basically, Two L is Measure for Measure meets Evelyn Waugh meets Legally Blonde meets too much free coffee my 3L year. I debated long and hard about putting it out there because,…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Augustus
In the midst of all the Mistletoe mania, poor Augustus and Emma have been entirely shuffled to the side. It’s tough competing with Turnip. So, as an apology to them– and to you, for giving you your Teaser Tuesday on a Wednesday!– here’s one of my very favorite scenes from The Garden Intrigue: the ill-fated…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Sally
Yesterday’s walk down Mistletoe memory lane got me thinking about another Fitzhugh who needs a story. That’s right: Turnip’s little sister Sally. Because we all know, if Turnip has a story, Sally wants one, too. Preferably gold-plated, enameled, and decorated with a cunning little pattern of seed pearls. And, yes, she’ll take the matching earrings…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: A Hero for Miss Gwen
As some of you know, last week, Miss Gwen shamelessly hijacked Pink X. This didn’t come entirely out of the blue. I’d known for a while that Miss Gwen was going to get a story of her own. And by “for a while”, I mean since summer of ’08. In the summer of ’08, I…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Honorable Mentions
Last week, we explored a gallery of the historical characters who show up in The Garden Intrigue. There are also a whole bunch of real people who are mentioned but never actually put in an appearance. Just so you know who the characters are talking about…. James Monroe American Envoy to France from 1794 to…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Faces to Names
In reading through the page proofs of The Garden Intrigue, I’ve noticed that the thing is riddled with real historical people, running around as though they’re fictional. So, since it’s rather nice to be able to put faces to names, here are some of the (real) folks you’ll meet in The Garden Intrigue: Robert Livingston…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Garden Intrigues
There’s a reason Pink IX wound up with the moniker The Garden Intrigue. A large part of the book is set in Josephine Bonaparte’s famous garden at Malmaison. Since the plot was so dependent on the location, I knew I had to go check it out. (Although I was pretty sure I wouldn’t run across…
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