Pinkorama Round-Up
The entries are in. (And all about Miss Gwen!) We’ve seen…. The Convent of Peepsino, by Candace and Cassandra: The Lost Jewels of Peepar, by Karen: The Naughty Peepfire Club, by Winter: As Grand Pooh-Bah of this Website, I hereby declare all three winners– because, really, how can one pick? Candace, Cassandra, Karen, and Winter,…
Read MorePinkorama #3: The Naughty Peepfire Club
Last but not least, we have Winter’s dramatic rendition of Miss Gwen and Colonel Reid spying on a meeting of the Naughty Hellfire Club. (Did I mention that Miss Gwen is currently gloating SO hard over the fact that she inspired all three Pinkoramae this year?) I cannot improve upon the caption that came with…
Read MorePinkorama #2: The Missing Jewels of Peepar
In this wonderful Pinkorama, by Karen, we visit the last scene of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (if you haven’t read it yet, avert your eyes!). Journey with me to the drawing room of Selwick Hall, where the location of the lost jewels of Berar (or Peepar) has just been discovered…. There is Miss…
Read MorePinkorama #1: The Convent of Peepsino
Some sculpt in marble. Others sculpt in marshmallow. It gives me the greatest pleasure to present to you the 2014 crop of Pink Carnation Peep Dioramas (Dioramae?). Miss Gwen is having a good gloat right now. All three of this year’s Pinkorama entries have their inspiration in The Passion of the Purple Plumeria— and one…
Read MoreSECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT Winner
And the winner of the advance copy of Beatriz Williams’s The Secret Life of Violet Grant is… Jessica C! (Of Comment #41.) Congrats, Jessica! If you email me with your info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Next Monday? A paperback copy of Karen White’s The Time Between…. On an entirely unrelated…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: THAT SUMMER in Pictures
Since today is April 1, I was tempted to do an April Fools… but that seemed unkind. So, instead, I’m kicking off a series of posts about my upcoming stand alone novel, That Summer. (Coming to a bookstore near you on June 3, 2014!) That Summer goes back and forth between 2009, when my modern…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: THE SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT
Courtesy of the lovely Beatriz Williams, for today’s Monday Give Away, we have an advance copy of… The Secret Life of Violet Grant! Here’s the official blurb: Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a…
Read MoreOnly two days more…
… to enter to win an Advance Reader’s Copy of That Summer! 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 was…
Read MoreHappy News!
I’ll be doing my first ever event in San Antonio this summer! (See? I do listen to those “why don’t you ever come here?” emails.) I’m very happy to announce that I’ll be appearing at Twig Book Shop on Sunday, July 27, from 3:00 to 5:00. Here are my upcoming events so far: — April…
Read MoreRIVER OF NO RETURN Winner
And the winner of the paperback copy of Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return is… Ellen! (Of Comment #10.) Congrats, Ellen! If you email me with your info, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Coming up next Monday… an advance copy of Beatriz Williams’s The Secret Life of Violet Grant.
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