Weekly Reading Round-Up
Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird. I’ve been a fan of Susanna Kearsley ever since I stumbled upon Season of Storms in a B&N in Boston back in 2001. For those of you who follow Kearsley, The Firebird manages to link two of her previous books: my all time…
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This post over on SBTB, about Jude Deveraux romance novel Barbies, absolutely cracked me up the other day. It also got me thinking…. If there were Pink Carnation Barbies, what would they look like? Miss Gwen, of course, would come with a purple parasol. As Jessica pointed out on Facebook, the Mary Alsworthy Barbie would…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Miss Gwen's Novel
Ever since the days of Pink I, when Miss Gwen caught her charge with a gothic novel and decided she could do better, Miss Gwen has been working on her very own masterpiece of purple prose: The Convent of Orsino, by a Lady. Many of you have asked me about Miss Gwen’s gothic novel. So,…
Read MorePersonalized PURPLE PLUMERIA
For personal reasons, I’m not going to be doing any touring for The Passion of the Purple Plumeria when it comes out this August. But you can still get a personalized copy! There are two ways to get your copy of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria personalized: — I’ll be pre-signing a batch of…
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This week, I went on a Later Books by Jennifer Crusie kick, reading Wild Ride (which I would describe as a paranormal swashbuckler, for lack of a better genre tag) and re-reading Maybe This Time, Crusie’s take on Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, haunted governess and all. The latter was absolutely perfect for…
Read MoreA Good Day for PURPLE PLUMERIA
It has been a very good day for The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. I’ve been told that Purple Plumeria will be receiving a starred review in next month’s Library Journal (yay, stars!), and RT Book Reviews also weighed in on The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, calling it a “well-crafted, engaging thriller”. I am…
Read MoreTen! Ten Pink Books!
Don’t mind me, I’m just channeling the Count Counts. Sharlene sent me this adorable video featuring the covers of all the books in the Pink series– all ten of them. Kind of bizarre that we’re up to double digits already, no? Even more appropriately, when The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, comes…
Read MoreMore Fun with Videos
Check out this amazing book trailer that my Spanish publisher made for Ashford Park! (aka The Ashford Affair.) We will not discuss how many times I have watched this in the past ten minutes. Doesn’t it have a wonderfully Brideshead Revisited feel to it? Ashford is currently available in Spanish in hardcover, Kindle, Nook, and…
Read MoreLondon at the time of ASHFORD
This morning, Naomi McEneely sent me this wonderful video of London in 1927, captured on film for posterity by a cinematographic pioneer of the time. This is the London that Addie, in The Ashford Affair, leaves behind to go to Kenya. It’s pretty incredible how familiar some bits are and how strange and different others…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Okay, this is less an “if you like”, and more of a “books that fit together under a category that only makes sense in my head”: books I tried to read at the wrong time and then rediscovered later. Don’t you love the way books sometimes reappear at just the right time? I’ve had two…
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