Teaser Tuesday: the Baths at Caldas da Rainha
It’s always very satisfying when geography works in your favor. Guess what happened to be directly on Jack and Jane’s route in The Lure of the Moonflower, just when I (I mean, they) needed it? A historic hot spring. Here is one of the baths as it would have been in the eighteenth century: And…
Read MorePink XII Reader's Guide
Hi, all! As I finish up the final book in the Pink series, The Lure of the Moonflower, the time has come for me to start thinking about the Reader’s Guide. Most of the time, the Reader’s Guide takes the form of a Q&A. In the past, I’ve been questioned by my characters; my characters…
Read MoreAsk the Author Day
It’s The Temptation of the Night Jasmine Ask the Author Day over on the Bubblebath Reader! Have any questions about Robert, Charlotte, that mysterious Frenchman, the Hellfire Club, or anything else? Just post your questions in the comments section of the Ask the Author post at the Bubblebath Reader and I’ll be by later in…
Read MorePink Carnation Cookery: Biscoitos
Today we have the final installment in our Pink Carnation Cookery series from the wonderful Christine! It does seem fitting that the last of the recipes should represent the last of the Pink books. This month, Christine has whipped up Portuguese biscoitos in honor of Jack and Jane’s adventures in Portugal in The Lure of…
Read MorePink Anniversary Guest Post from Jessica– and Give Away!
As we enter the final week of Pink Anniversary Month, we have a final guest post! This one is from Jessica, whom I have now had the great privilege of knowing for nearly as long as there’s been a Pink series. But I’ll leave that to Jessica to tell…. Summer, 2006…I was preparing to start…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’m still in Pink XII lockdown (and will be until March 15), but my wonderful college roommate dropped by with a life-saving package of books for those moments in between speed-writing and toddler-wrangling. This week’s pick? Tanya Huff’s Summon the Keeper. Where has this book been all my life? Wonderfully quirky, with laugh-out-loud snarky narrative.…
Read MorePink Carnation Comics Winner
And the winner of that demmed elusive Pick Your Pimpernel contest is… Denise! (Of Comment #26.) Congrats, Denise! Email me at willig@post.harvard.edu with your info and I’ll send a set of the Pink Carnation comic prints wending their way to you. Also, there are a couple of mugs that remain unclaimed from the last two…
Read MorePick Your Pimpernel!
As I’ve discussed elsewhere before, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation had its immediate impetus in a post General Exams re-viewing of the Anthony Andrews version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. I’d first read the book when I was ten. I can remember the very moment of beginning it, on the nubby carpet of a…
Read MoreDonkey Poll Winner
Jane and Jack are still debating the proper naming of a donkey (i.e. Jack doesn’t understand why it needs one), but their author is very grateful for all the wonderful donkey name suggestions. When the finished book appears, you may recognize some of those names in the text…. In the meantime, the winner of the…
Read MoreHappy Valentine's Day!
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s my traditional Valentine’s Day post: a piece I wrote way back in 2009, for the (now defunct) All-A-Blog. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you….” They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. With that as my excuse, I plan…
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