PURPLE PLUMERIA Winner!
The winner of the advance copy of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, is… Alexandra! (Of Comment #20.) Congrats, Alexandra! If you email me with your snail mail address, I’ll pop the ARC in the mail to you. In the meantime, if you didn’t win a copy here, there’s still a chance…
Read MoreBecause real spies wear purple….
The latest contest for an advance copy of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria ends tonight! To enter, just click here and follow the instructions in the contest post. In the meantime, here’s a little snippet from Chapter One…. (Of course, the book is set eighty-four years too early for the Eiffel Tower to be…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I was fortunate enough to be the recipient of another book care package, which meant lots of new reads for me this week. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Jonathan Aycliffe, Whispers in the Dark Very creepy classic Gothic, set in the north of England at the turn of the century, told in the requisite…
Read MorePURPLE PLUMERIA Give Away
The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, comes out on Tuesday, August 6th! To celebrate hitting the two month mark (how did it get to be June already?), I’m giving away an advance copy of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. So, for an advance copy of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria,…
Read MoreTwo more months until PURPLE PLUMERIA!
Tomorrow marks just two months to go until The Passion of the Purple Plumeria appears in stores! (A huge round of applause to Shelli Armstrong for designing the Meadows crest, featured above: two crossed parasols on a field of sheep. Isn’t it so perfectly Miss Gwen?) In honor of the two month mark, I’ll be…
Read MoreBook Event with Deanna Raybourn– Tomorrow!
Tomorrow evening, Deanna Raybourn and I will be appearing at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York to speak about our respective 1920s Kenya books, A Spear of Summer Grass and The Ashford Affair, and whatever else you want us to talk about. Here are the details: What: Talk & Signing Where: The Mysterious Bookshop, 58…
Read MoreSummer Reading
Happy June! I know it’s not really officially summer until later this month, but the beginning of June always marks the beginning of summer to me. I have a stockpile of books on hand for this summer. Currently waiting for me are: — the second and third books in C.S. Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr series,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Do you ever start a book at the wrong time? There are a handful of books that I’ve begun while Not in the Mood, put aside, and then re-discovered and loved years later. That’s what happened to me this week with the first book in C.S. Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr series, What Angels Fear, which…
Read MoreDiabetes Research Fundraiser
We’re down to the last day for Brenda Novak’s annual online auction for diabetes research! Bidding closes tonight. I’ve donated the last of the Purple Plumeria tote bags (with the Meadows crest so cunningly designed by Shelli), along with a signed copy of The Ashford Affair– and one of my three remaining advance copies of…
Read MoreMiss Gwen would like to remind us all….
Only two months (and a week) until The Passion of the Purple Plumeria!
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