Two 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!
Read MoreA 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….
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