A Hundred Summers
One of my favorite books of this year, Beatriz Williams’s A Hundred Summers, comes out today! Here’s the official blurb: Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that…
Read MorePurple Plumeria E-Cards
To celebrate the launch of Pink X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (coming to a bookstore near you on August 6th!), the talented Sharlene Moore is designing a series of Purple Plumeria e-cards for me to be shared on Facebook or Pinterest or wherever one feels like sharing. Here’s the first one: Isn’t that…
Read MoreASHFORD in Spanish!
The Spanish edition of The Ashford Affair— aka Ashford Park— comes out today! The Spanish edition is available in both hardcover and e-book.
Read MoreOn the Ballroom Blog….
Lady Uppington, Miss Gwen and the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale put in a guest appearance yesterday on the Ballroom Blog as Lady B enlisted their aid in marrying off her recalcitrant nephew, Monty. The idea of those four ladies in one place is enough to make any rake quake….
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This has been a week of all new books for me: — Donna Andrews, Stork Raving Mad. I’ve lost track of which one this is in Donna Andrews’s Meg Langslow mystery series– eleven or twelve, I think? It has the same strong first person voice and madcap sensibility as her others, as Meg Langslow, eight…
Read MoreApologies…
… for being AWOL most of this week! I’ve been hunkered down with revisions for the Victorian Book (aka Stand Alone #2), which comes out next spring. I’ll be posting more about that here on the website by and by, but if you want to hear about some of the background for the book (and…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Around this time last year, I did an If You Like post about books involving weddings. It seemed appropriate now to do an If You Like, as a follow up, as it were, about books with pregnant heroines. So, if you like books where the heroine is enceinte for all or most of the novel,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I had a bit of a Jennifer Crusie mini-marathon this week (which would have turned into a maxi-marathon if I could have remembered what I did with Welcome to Temptation and Bet Me). Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Laurie King, The Art of Detection. This is the fifth of King’s Kate Martinelli…
Read MoreThe Publication Schedule
Since I’ve switched from one book a year to two books a year, what’s coming out when has grown a little more confusing. Here’s the publication schedule for both Pinks and stand alones for the near future: — The Ashford Affair (hardcover): available now! (UK edition available now, Spanish edition appearing May 28, Polish edition…
Read MorePURPLE PLUMERIA Goodreads Give Away
Happy news! My publisher is very generously giving away thirty-five advance review copies of The Passion of the Purple Plumeria this month on Goodreads. To enter, just follow the instructions on the Goodreads Purple Plumeria give away page. The contest is open from today until June 15th. Good luck!
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