Teaser 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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I’m still on my 1920s kick in preparation for the new book, so it’s been a Brideshead Revisited week for me– although I did finally get my hands on Carlos Ruis Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, which I’m itching to read. What have you been reading this week?
Read MorePink Carnation Cookery: "Blood Lily" Cookies
With huge thanks to Christine, I bring you installment number two of Christine’s Pink Carnation Cookery series! This month, it’s Indian-inspired cookies in honor of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. (Which is doubly appropriate, since the modern portion of Blood Lily is set right around Valentine’s Day!) And now over to Christine: In Blood…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Coming up in 2015….
I’ve just started work on my 2015 book, which will henceforth be known as The 1927 Book. (That sounded somewhat more descriptive than “Stand Alone #3.) The first line? “Only a week, and already the cottage felt different.” The 1927 book (which will presumably come out in 2015) is about a young woman who discovers,…
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It’s been a rather eclectic reading run for me! The highlight was Kate Forsyth’s seventeenth-century set retelling of Rapunzel, Bitter Greens. There was also Nancy Mitford’s wonderful spoof of Anglo-French relations, The Blessing, Waugh’s send-up of the bright young things, Vile Bodies, and a Texas-set romantic suspense novel about IRS investigators, Death, Taxes, and Peach…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Since we missed our regularly scheduled If You Like this morning, here’s a make-up If You Like, inspired by Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens. If you like books based on fairy tales, you’ll probably like…. — Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens, a tale set in 17th century France and 16th century Italy, woven around the story of…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Parsnip
Since I turned in the edits for The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla yesterday, now seemed a good time to share one of my favorite bits: Turnip, the Next Generation. Or, rather, our introduction to his daughter, Jane, more commonly know as… Parsnip. Once a Fitzhugh, always a Fitzhugh? From The Mark of the Midnight…
Read MoreWe have a cover!
The next stand alone novel, That Summer, has a cover! For some reason, my books never feel quite real to me until I have that cover image. I’m particularly thrilled about this one since this was a very hard book to cover. The action goes back and forth between 2009 and 1849, between present day…
Read MoreFrom the Mixed-Up Files
Just around this time three years ago, I was between books. I started toying with a few different projects. One was a sweeping epic about two cousins, beginning around the turn of the century, and moving up through the 1920s. (You may recognize that one as The Ashford Affair.) The other was a novel about…
Read MoreEvent Tonight Canceled
Only a blizzard could keep me, Susanna Kearsley and Beatriz Williams from our event tonight! Unfortunately, it IS a blizzard. And, sadly, that means the panel won’t go on. There is, however, no cloud (or, in this case, snowstorm) without a silver lining. Susanna and Beatriz made it out to WORD earlier today to sign…
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