BLACK TULIP Month
Over on the Bubblebath Reader, the Pink For All Seasons Read-a-Thon continues with Pink II, The Masque of the Black Tulip. Head over there to join the discussion! As a special treat, there’s a copy of The Masque of the Black Tulip currently up for grabs over there. On an unrelated note, I realize that…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Since plague has struck my household (bring out your tissues!), it seemed like a good time for comfort reads, in the form of two old favorite madcap mysteries that I hadn’t re-read in a bit: –Dorothy Cannell’s The Thin Woman, in which our heroine hires an escort for a family event, and, a few months…
Read MoreMISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE– only 99p!
I am delighted to announce that The Mischief of the Mistletoe is one of Sainsbury’s autumn picks! (Given the number of their frozen dinners I consumed during my year in London, it really does seem like payback. Ah, memories. I do miss that Lancashire hot pot….) From now until December 24th, UK readers can acquire…
Read MoreAsk the Author
Hi, all! As part of the year long Pink-A-Thon on The Bubblebath Reader, I’ll be doing an Ask the Author over there tomorrow to wrap up the discussion of Pink I, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. The way it works: there’ll be an Ask the Author post up on the Bubblebath Reader site…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, but there have been some gems amid the grumpiness. This week’s gems? Carla Kelly’s Marrying the Royal Marine, set in Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars, in which the ugly duckling sister finds herself on an unexpected adventure when she joins her sister in staffing a hospital…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Friends of Peniche
It’s the little details that make a writer’s day. I won’t be telling you too much if I let you know that a crucial piece of Pink XII is slotted to take place around the coastal city of Peniche, in Portugal. As I was doing my crash course on Portugal and Portuguese culture in 1807…
Read MoreMonday Give-Away: VIENNA WALTZ
Okay, I’m cheating a bit. The give-away isn’t over here. It’s on the Bubblebath Reader, where Ashley has an interview with Tracy Grant and a give-away of her book, Vienna Waltz, which is one of my very favorites. Here’s the official blurb: Nothing is fair in love and war… Europe’s elite have gathered at the…
Read MorePink I: What's In A Genre?
I’ve always been fascinated by the question of genre. How do we define genres? How– and why– do they change over time? What are the inditia that signal to us that a book is meant to be one genre or another? Why does it matter? Does it matter? This week, Ashley posted on the Pink…
Read MoreA Bit of This and That
You can find me today over on the Timeless Quills blog, chatting about this and that, including a rather Eloise-esque grad school misadventure involving the Britney Spears movie, Bertucci’s, and an Intellectual History professor. (All names have been withheld from this story to protect the professorial.) Thanks so much to the lovely Jerrica Knight-Catania for…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I had a big treat this week: an early copy of Simone St. James’s upcoming book, The Other Side of Midnight! In this one, a reluctant medium finds herself drawn into a former friend’s murder inquiry, pulling her back into a world that she’s been avoiding since their big falling out years before. As always,…
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