A Gentleman Never Tells Contest
For our first Thursday give-away, we have Juliana Gray’s latest release, A Gentleman Never Tells (coming November 6 to a bookstore near you!). Here’s the official blurb: Six years ago, Elizabeth Harewood and Lord Roland Penhallow were London’s golden couple, young and beautiful and wildly in love. Forced apart by her scheming relatives and his…
Read MoreThursday Give Aways!
Thanks to the kindness of friends, the next three Thursdays will all be give-away Thursdays. I have three books for you, all very different. They are: — Juliana Gray’s A Gentleman Never Tells, the follow-up to her phenomenal debut historical romance A Lady Never Lies, set in nineteenth century Tuscany; — Alison Pace’s book of…
Read MoreHappy Halloween!
It feels a little odd and almost a little wrong to be going back to normal things like Halloween after the upheaval of the storm. To all those still struggling with the aftermath, my thoughts are with you. Apologies for the disruption to the usual schedule here on the site! Teaser Tuesday will return as…
Read MoreIf You Like….
With the winds howling outside my window, I was tempted to detour this “if you like” into something about storms– but it’s hard to think of “like” and “storm” in the same phrase just now, so, instead, I’m going with the original plan: Halloween movies. Every year, I put on my princess dress, fill my…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
With less than a week until Halloween, my reading has been skewing heavily towards ghost stories… with one surprise discovery. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Julie Kagawa, The Iron King. How did I not discover this book before? It’s the amalgamation of all the folk-lore based fantasy novels I read in my youth, featuring…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Ashford Park
Part of the fun of writing The Ashford Affair was getting to design my own imaginary English great house: Ashford Park. Even more interesting? Figuring out how a modern American woman would react to learning that her grandmother had grown up in such a place. Here, for your amusement, is the snippet from Chapter Two…
Read MoreIf You Like….
If you like Kate Morton’s The Secret Keeper, you’ll probably like: — Her three other books: The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, and The Distant Hours (if you haven’t read these yet, you’re in for a treat); — The Ashford Affair: I usually try to leave my books out of these, but some of…
Read MoreChicago Bar Association: 11/8
Hello, Chicago lawyer friends! On Thursday, November 8th, Laura Caldwell, Jamie Freveletti and I will be appearing at Winston & Strawn, courtesy of the Chicago Bar Association and the Alliance for Women, on a panel titled: From the Court Call to the Best Seller List: Women Lawyer-Authors Share Their Stories. The event begins at 5:30…
Read MoreTexas Event in November
I’m thrilled to announce that next month, I’ll be appearing with a wonderful panel of romance novelists at the Stonebriar Centre B&N in Frisco, Texas. The line-up includes Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James, Elizabeth Boyle, Cathy Maxwell and Wendi Corsi Staub. The event kicks off at 3:00 on Sunday, November 11. Hope to see you there!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, I treated myself to a bunch of books I’ve been wanting for a while: — Pamela Morsi, The Lovesick Cure. A sweet, heartwarming romance set in the Ozarks. It reminded me of both Kristan Higgins’s and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s books, with as much focus on the supporting characters as on the central couple.…
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