Pink I: Inspirations
This week on the Pink Carnation Read Along, Ashley blogged about inspirations for the Pink series, specifically The Scarlet Pimpernel. Since I’m blogging along with the Read Along, I’d considered writing about some of the antecedents of the Pimpernel. There have been plenty of people over the year who have debated just where Baroness Orczy…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Interconnections
Sometimes, the eighteenth (and early nineteenth) century can feel like a very small place. Right now, I’m doing a crash course of research for Pink XII, aka The Lure of the Moonflower. In 1807, the Portuguese royal family flees Lisbon for their colony of Brazil, just steps ahead of General Junot’s rag-tag army, the mad…
Read MoreKerrytown!
It’s Kerrytown Bookfest in Ann Arbor! You can find me signing books at the Aunt Agatha’s booth at 12:30. At 1:15, over in the Main Tent, Tasha Alexander, Susan Elia MacNeal, Anna Lee Huber and I will be talking about the Art of Historical Romantic Suspense. Hope to see you there! Upcoming Events
Read MoreToday's Event– New Location!
Last time Tasha Alexander and I toured together, there was a freak thunderstorm…. This time? Power outages. The show is still going on– but it’s a little ways down the road. Due to outages at the main library, we’re moving five minutes away, to the Kezar Branch Library at 106 Church Street in Romeo. Come…
Read MoreMichigan– Today!
Hello, Michiganders! You can find me, Tasha Alexander, Susan Elia MacNeal, Simone St James, and more today at the lovely Romeo District Library. Did I mention that we’ve been promised homemade cookies? If you can’t make it today, you can find all of us tomorrow (Sunday) at the Kerrytown Bookfest in Ann Arbor on the…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been living in the 1920s for so long now, that I desperately needed to read something that wasn’t a) anywhere near the Twenties, or b) set in England. So this week’s haul was: — Jo Goodman’s In Want of a Wife. We all have those ridiculous plot tropes we secretly love. One of mine…
Read MorePink I: How Eloise Came To Be
A few days ago, Ashley kicked off the Read Along with the first lines of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, in which Eloise is braving London transportation to visit one Mrs. Selwick-Alderly: “The Tube had broken down. Again…” I have a secret to share with you: there was no Eloise in the original…
Read MoreThe Pink Carnation Read Along Blog Along!
Doesn’t that sound like a tongue twister? Here’s what it is, untwisted: As some of you may know, Ashley is doing a year long Read Along of all the Pink books over on her blog, The Bubblebath Reader. Each month features a different Pink book (in chronological order), with essays about the books, personal memories,…
Read MoreFor my German readers….
I have a little surprise I’ve been saving for my German-speaking readers! This Christmas, I have an original short story appearing in an anthology called Weihnachtsherzen. Here’s the official blurb (in German, of course!): Die junge Zoe, die nach dem herzzerreißenden Ende ihrer Beziehung an die Küste von Maine flieht und von einem geheimnisvollen Fischer…
Read MoreMichigan: 9/6 and 9/7
I’m going to be making a bunch of appearances in Michigan this coming weekend, along with some of my favorite people! Here’s the schedule. Saturday, September 6: — at 1:30, at the Romeo District Library in Washington, MI, speaking on the Mystery Comes to Michigan panel with Tasha Alexander, Elizabeth Heiter, Susan Elia MacNeal, Theresa…
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