In my mailbox today…
The finalized cover flaps for The Ashford Affair! The one on top is the U.S. edition, and the smaller one is the international edition, which will be on sale in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. If the cover flaps are here, it means the books can’t be far behind! Just a little over one…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner!
The very lucky of the winner of the advance copy of Simone St. James’s An Inquiry Into Love and Death is… Elizabeth Anne! (Of Comment #28.) Congrats, Elizabeth Anne! If you’ll email me with your info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. An Inquiry Into Love and Death comes out tomorrow…. More…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’d meant until I was done with the current manuscript before treating myself to the new books from a care package a very good friend sent me last week… but I just couldn’t resist. — Simone St. James, An Inquiry Into Love and Death. A beautifully written, 1920s-set ghost story. Since I have my real…
Read MoreThursday Give Away
I am thrilled to announce that for today’s Thursday give away, I have managed to get my hands on an advance copy of Simone St. James’s upcoming novel, An Inquiry Into Love and Death. Here’s the official blurb: In 1920’s England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a…
Read MoreThe ASHFORD Tour!
As is traditional, I’m going to be hitting the road to celebrate the launch of The Ashford Affair in just a little over a month. Here’s the list of events so far: April 9th (Tuesday), 7:00 PM, Scottsdale, AZ: the Ashford launch party! I’ll be discussing and signing The Ashford Affair at the Poisoned Pen…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: On Titles
I was asked recently about the title for the Victorian Work-in-Progress. The short answer: it doesn’t have one yet. Titles are tricky beasts. I know some authors who come up with a title before they start writing the book. I tend to do it the opposite way around. I don’t really know what a book…
Read MoreReady… Set… Pinkorama!
It’s that time of year again…. Can’t you just smell the sugar and the marshmallow? Yes, you guessed right: it’s time for the Third Annual Pinkorama! (That’s really short for Pink Carnation Peep Diorama, but if I had to write that out each time, these would become very long posts.) The rules are simple: using…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
The winner of Tracy Grant’s The Paris Affair is… Sara B! (Of Comment #16.) Congrats, Sara! If you email Tracy with your info, she’ll see that your book gets to you. And for those who didn’t win, at least the wait isn’t too long now! The Paris Affair comes out just one month from Tuesday,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
While I’ve been powering through the Victorian Book (100,000 words down, 20,000 more to go!), I’ve been re-reading favorite old mystery novels, since they retain my interest without distracting me too much from the manuscript at hand. This week I revisited Dorothy Sayers’s The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club and The Nine Tailors, followed by…
Read MoreThursday Give Away
We have a special treat for Thursday give away today: a copy of Tracy Grant’s upcoming novel, The Paris Affair! Here’s the official blurb: From the ashes of war rise the secrets of its darkest hearts. . . . In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons…
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