Weekly 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,…
Read MorePink 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…
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