Look 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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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…
Read MoreHappy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day, gentle reader! In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are three links. (I feel like the Count who Counts: “One! One link! Two! Two links!”) — My traditional Valentine’s Day post, on my favorite fictional declarations of love. — Henrietta and Miles’s first Valentine’s Day together: Bunny & Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine’s…
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This week, I’ve mostly been reading undisclosed books for an undisclosed contest, but, in the midst of judging, I did take a break with Sherry Thomas’s The Luckiest Lady in London, which absolutely lived up to all the praise. Sherry Thomas does a lovely job of writing believable, well-rounded characters, but what I like best…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: This House and That House
My upcoming stand alone novel, That Summer, is what I like to call a House Book– a book in which my heroine inherits an old house full of mysteries. As all good house books should, That Summer has a house on the cover. But, just for fun– and a bit of compare and contrast– I…
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