Weekly Reading Round-Up
I have one big reading item this week: I finally got around to reading Gone Girl! Have you read it? And, if so, what did you think? This week’s other reading excursion was a trip back into classic 60s Gothic: Mary Elgin’s A Man from the Mist, featuring a young widow hiring herself out as…
Read MoreTHAT SUMMER Launch: New York, 6/3
If you’re in town, join me for the That Summer launch at the Corner Bookstore on June 3! I’ll be reading from and signing That Summer and there should also be wine and nibbles. I’m so excited to share more about the background of that summer (and answer any questions anyone might have about anything…
Read MoreTHAT SUMMER Give Away!
There’s only one week left until That Summer appears in stores, and look what I have to give away: Hardcover copies of That Summer, and… audio CDs of That Summer! I’ll be giving away two copies of the hardcover and two copies of the audio CD. Here’s your mission. Help spread the word about That…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It’s been a varied reading week for me, ranging from Regency mystery (C.S. Harris’s Why Kings Confess) to contemporary small town romance (Jill Shalvis’s Always on My Mind) to vintage Gothic (Evil at Queen’s Priory). Of these, I enjoyed the first two and was a little underwhelmed by the Gothic, which wasn’t quite up to…
Read MorePink Carnation Cookery: May Madeleines!
In honor of the merry, merry month of May, Christine brings us… Madeleines! With this cookie, we go back to the very beginning of the series, to The Secret History of the Pink Carnation…. And now over to Christine! In the Spring of 1803, Amy Balcourt, along with her cousin Jane Wooliston, and chaperone, Gwen…
Read MoreWHY KINGS CONFESS Winner
The winner of the ARC of C.S. Harris’s Why Kings Confess is… Kristy! (Of Comment #22.) Congrats, Kristy! If you email me with your snail mail address, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Stay tuned for next Monday’s give away: the That Summer audio CD!
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: THAT SUMMER Audio Excerpt!
Hot off the presses– or the audio equivalent thereof– I have an excerpt from the That Summer audio book! It kicks right off with Chapter One. Happy listening! That Summer— hardcover, e-book, audio, et al– will appear on shelves and iPods on June 3. The audio version is available for pre-order from Audible, or, if…
Read MoreOnly two weeks until THAT SUMMER!
That Summer, my next stand alone novel, comes out in just two weeks! Here’s the official blurb: 2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: WHY KINGS CONFESS
For today’s Monday give away, I have… an ARC of C.S. Harris’s ninth St. Cyr novel, Why Kings Confess. Here’s the official blurb: The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian’s past puts…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
The nice thing about an airplane delay is that it does provide uninterrupted time to read. While we were sitting on the tarmac at JFK, I gobbled up two books: — Jan Moran, Scent of Roses. Ever wonder where those truly sweeping stories went? Heroines who persevere through war and upheaval, lose everything, build it…
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