Weekend Reading
With a holiday weekend always comes the prospect of wonderful, guilt-free reading time. On my stack for the weekend? Since I’ve read Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries until I can practically recite them, I’ve been meaning and meaning to try Margery Allingham’s Campion books. My amazing editor also just sent me Heather Snow’s three…
Read MoreASHFORD PARK Winner
The winner of the French edition of The Ashford Affair is… Emily! (Of Comment #11.) Congrats, Emily! If you email me with your details, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. More foreign editions of Ashford Affair coming up in September, when we do our Ashford Around the World give away….
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: MANZANILLA Snippets
For those of you who aren’t on Facebook, here are some of my favorite snippets from The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, which the talented Sharlene made into e-cards for me: In which Sally encounters Lucien, Duke of Belliston at a ball: In which Sally receives the gift of a stoat: Just for the record,…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: ASHFORD en Francais
Look what popped up in my mailbox last week? The Ashford Affair en Francais! Snazzy cover, no? In September, once The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla is safely out in the world, I’ll do an Ashford around the world give away, with copies in German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and Polish up for grabs. But…
Read MorePink Carnation Cookery: June Ginger Biscuits
Here’s a little secret for you: the modern hero of That Summer, Nicholas Dorrington, enjoys ginger biscuits just as much as his Regency predecessor, Miles. In honor of Dorringtons past and present, the amazing Christine has presented us with a recipe for… ginger biscuits. Let the Dorrington munching begin! And now over to Christine…. In…
Read MoreMIDNIGHT MANZANILLA Winner
Thank you so much for sharing your most memorable Halloween costumes! Sally is taking notes. (Turnip would be taking notes, but we know what he always dresses up as for costume parties: a giant pink carnation. It’s just his thing.) The winner of the advance copy of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla is… JoAnn!…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: a little bit of MIDNIGHT MANZANILLA
The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla comes out in just six weeks! To pass the time until then, here is one of my very favorite bits from The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla… in which Miss Gwen, once again, thinks this book is about her. And Sally, like another famous personage, is Not Amused. Points…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: Pink XI!
There are just over six weeks left until the eleventh Pink Carnation novel, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, hits the shelves– and I have two ARCs left. Let the give aways begin! Here’s the official blurb: In the latest Pink Carnation novel from national bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn…
Read MoreTHAT SUMMER in the NYT Book Review!
At an event this past fall, I was asked whether my books had ever been reviewed in the New York Times Review of Books. “No, and they’re never likely to be,” I said. This, after all, was right on the heels of various dust-ups regarding the Times’s coverage of women writers in general and women’s…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I know I read something earlier this week. But I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. I know there was some Georgette Heyer in there, specifically The Convenient Marriage, one of my favorite Heyers, and one I haven’t revisited for a while. This one is 18th century, rather than Regency set,…
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