Personalized PLUMERIA: Final Call
Stack of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria? Check. Special Miss Gwen signing pen? Check. Tomorrow, I head over to the Penguin offices to pre-sign a bunch of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria for the Poisoned Pen bookstore. Since I’m not going on tour this time, the Poisoned Pen has graciously offered to deal…
Read MoreASHFORD Tour: the Grand Finale!
Today is the final stop on the Ashford Affair blog tour! Thanks so much to everyone who has come with me on the journey and to all the bloggers who have hosted me along the way. Our final stop is the virtual home of the talented Miss Eliza at Strange and Random Happenstance, with questions…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It’s been an eclectic reading week for me. I started out with Wendy Webb’s The Tale of Halcyon Crane, which reminded me, atmospherically, a lot of one of my old favorites, Barbara Michaels’ The Crying Child, both set on isolated islands, both involving family mysteries, paranormal goings-on, and the ghost of a child. From there,…
Read MoreThe ASHFORD Tour Continues!
Over the past few days, I’ve been popping around the internet. You can find new Q&As on the blog of the lovely Kate Forsyth, Turning the Pages, and A Bookish Libraria. There are also currently give aways up and running for a copy of The Ashford Affair on Literary, Etc and Peeking Between the Pages.…
Read MoreLast chance for signed PURPLE PLUMERIA!
Since I’m not going on book tour for The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, the wonderful people at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore have graciously arranged for long-distance signing: they’re shipping me a pile of books to sign and then I’m sending them back to send to the intended recipients. As you can see, I have…
Read MorePink Carnation Barbie Contest Winners
There were twelve candidates for Pink Carnation Barbie– and if you haven’t read these yet, you should. (I would, however, advise against doing so on public transportation or standing in a grocery store line, because your chortles might cause some strange looks.) All twelve are many kinds of clever and funny enough to make me…
Read MorePURPLE PLUMERIA Mugs!
Thanks to Sharlene‘s gorgeous graphic design skills, we have Passion of the Purple Plumeria mugs! For a chance to win one, just place your vote in the Pink Carnation Barbie contest. The contest ends tonight, with all winners to be announced tomorrow.
Read MoreThings to Read While Waiting for PURPLE PLUMERIA
Just a little over a month until The Passion of the Purple Plumeria arrives in stores! But what to read while waiting? Here are some ideas: — Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody books (historical mystery), which also feature a sharp-tongued, parasol wielding heroine (start with Crocodile on the Sandbank); — ditto Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate (historical…
Read MoreBlog Tour: Third Time's the Charm?
Today I’m appearing on not one, not two, but three blogs. I’m not sure if I’m channeling the Count who Counts here– three! three blogs!– or Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail, in which not one blog shall you count, or two, but three. Anyway, all three feature brand new Q&As (with some rather…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It’s been a week of re-reads for me, including some that go way back. In the less way back category, I went on a Susan Elizabeth Phillips kick. There’s something about her contemporary romances that spells “summer reading” for me. Maybe because so many of them take place during the summer? This time around, I…
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