REBEL 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…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I will confess to being entirely boring this week– all I’ve been doing is re-reading books about, or written during, the 1920s in order to stay in the mood for the 1927 Book. However, there are several upcoming books I’m rather excited about, including: — Donna Thorland’s The Rebel Pirate; — Kristan Higgins’s Waiting On…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: The Future of the Pink Series
It’s official. Pink XII– aka the book after The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla— will be the last book in the Pink Carnation series. Twelve is a pretty good number for a series, don’t you think? Here’s what I can tell you about Pink XII so far. It’s Jane’s book. It’s set in Portugal in…
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