Pinkorama #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…
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… 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.
Read MoreASHFORD: the "Lost" Chapter Twenty-Nine
As promised, here is the excised chapter of The Ashford Affair that has been added as an extra to the back of the paperback, along with a short history of how it came to be cut. If you haven’t read the book yet, stop! Stop here! There are major spoilers below….
Read MoreASHFORD in Paperback– Today!
Book release days always feel like birthdays and Christmases and Valentine’s Day all rolled up into one– the heavy lifting is all done and there’s just the joy of seeing the finished book make it out into the world. Today is one of those days! The Ashford Affair paperback makes its official appearance in stores…
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