If You Like– and Give Away!
Rather than let If You Like slide entirely away in the midst of Monday Give Away season, the ever resourceful Tracy (Teresa) Grant came up with the perfect way of squaring the circle: a Monday Give Away If You Like. Courtesy of Tracy, here’s an If You Like inspired by her upcoming release, The Berkeley…
Read MorePink Carnation Cookery: "Emerald Ring" Cookies
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Christine brings us Irish Lace cookies inspired by The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Brew yourself a strong cup of tea, put some Irish ballads on the iPod, and here we go…. In The Deception of the Emerald Ring, Letty and Geoff run off to Ireland to help the…
Read MoreREBEL PIRATE Winner
The winner of Donna Thorland’s The Rebel Pirate is… … Paige, of Comment #45! Congrats, Paige! If you email me with your details, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. For more swashbuckling fun, check out Donna’s list of Quotable Swashbuckler lines, revisiting old favorites from such greats as Lymond, D’Artagnan, Scaramouche, and…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Almost ASHFORD
It’s March! Which means two things: 1) I’m about to be another year older, and 2) The Ashford Affair comes out in paperback! You can pre-order The Ashford Affair paperback from your favorite bookseller right now, or find it in stores on March 25th. As a special bonus, the paperback edition contains a deleted chapter…
Read MoreMonday Give Away!
Because I’ve been lazy about If You Like… and because we need some cheering up on Mondays… and because I have wonderful author friends with books coming out… welcome to Monday Give Aways! For the next few weeks, we’re going to be having a series of Monday give aways. There’ll be a new book every…
Read MoreLook What I've Got!
In the mail today I found… … the paperback of The Ashford Affair and an advance copy of That Summer! I only have the one ARC of That Summer just now, but as soon as more arrive, I’ll start arranging some give aways. Happy weekend!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Finally! I have something other than Dorothy Sayers and Evelyn Waugh to report. This week, I caught up on some of the book pile, starting with: — Here I Go Again, by Jen Lancaster: a clever take on the trope of the aging prom queen, in which one aging prom queen revisits her past to…
Read MoreAre you ready to Pinkorama?
It’s that time of year again…. Can’t you just smell the sugar and the marshmallow? Yes, you guessed right: it’s time for the Fourth Annual Pinkorama! (That’s really short for Pink Carnation Peep Diorama, but if I had to write that out each time, these would become very long posts.) The rules are simple: using…
Read MoreTwo Books and a Novella
Remember how I raved last year about Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return? She now has a prequel novella out: The Time Tutor. More rollicking time travel fun! The paperback edition of The River of No Return comes out on March 25, the same day as The Ashford Affair paperback. (It’s always nice to…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Jane's Book (Pink XII)
Over the years, I’ve considered several potential suitors for the Pink Carnation. Back in the very, very beginning, I had intended to set Jane up with Geoffrey Pinchingdale-Snipe. You all know how that went. By the end of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, it was quite clear to me that there wasn’t the…
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