If You Like….
In last week’s Weekly Reading Round-Up, Ashley and Joanne had a great suggestion: books about books. (Not like we’re a little book obsessed over here or anything.) So, if you like books about books, you’ll probably like…. — A.S. Byatt’s Possession, in which a letter stuck in a book starts a scholar off on a…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
The winner of the advance copy of William Dietrich’s The Barbed Crown is… Diya! (Of Comment #8.) Congrats, Diya! If you contact me with your info, I’ll pop the book into the mail to you. Coming up this Thursday, we have a special treat: an interview with Deanna Raybourn and a chance to win a…
Read MoreA Freebie Regency Fashion Guide
Huge thanks to Angela Bliss for posting a link to this Regency fashion guide over on my Facebook page! Just for today, Fashions in the Era of Jane Austen is free in e-version for Kindle. It’s a few years late for the Pink books (and a hundred years too early for The Ashford Affair!), but…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
What with all of the book launch craziness, I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump this past week. In a somewhat distracted frame of mind, I’ve been vacillating back and forth between two very different old favorites: Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword, a tale of adventure in the mythical kingdom of Damar, as…
Read MoreThursday Give Away
For this week’s Thursday Give Away, I have an advance copy of William Dietrich’s The Barbed Crown, the latest in his Napoleonic-set Ethan Gage series. Here’s the official blurb: In this latest adventure by New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich, Ethan Gage is out to foil Napoleon’s coronation as emperor, play double agent between…
Read MoreThe Coffee Chart
As many of you have heard, my writing process has a great deal to do with caffeine consumption. Just as I swap out music from book to book, I also have a different signature drink for each manuscript– my go to beverage, so to speak. For your amusement, here’s the coffee chart for the last…
Read MoreASHFORD Launch Livestream
The Ashford Affair tour is now officially over! If you weren’t able to make it to any of the stops on the Ashford tour, here’s one delivered to you remotely: the full, unabridged recording of the launch night event at the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale. You can also get a signed copy of The Ashford…
Read MoreNew York– Tonight! (Corner Bookstore, 6:00)
I’ll be winding up the Ashford Affair tour tonight with one final appearance: the Corner Bookstore in New York. Where: 93rd & Madison When: 6:00 tonight What: The final Ashford launch event! Why: Because reading The Ashford Affair is much more fun than filing your taxes…. Hope to see you there!
Read MoreASHFORD AFFAIR for Book Clubs
For those of you out there with book clubs, St. Martin’s has prepared a list of discussion questions about The Ashford Affair. There are some excellent, thought-provoking, conversation starters in there. You can find the list of discussions questions here. ** Warning: do not open the questions before reading the book! There are some major…
Read MoreHappiness for GARDEN INTRIGUE!
The Garden Intrigue was just awarded the 2013 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction! Huge congrats also to Juliana Grey, who scooped up the award for Best First Historical Romance with A Lady Never Lies! Speaking of The Garden Intrigue, you can also find me talking about The Garden Intrigue over on Dear…
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