Thursday Give Away Winner
The winner of A Gentleman Never Tells is… Noelle M.! (Of Comment #52.) Congrats, Noelle! Just email Juliana Gray your info through the form here and she’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Next up: Alison Pace’s You Tell Your Dog First on Thursday, November 8th. Any suggestions for good contest questions for…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
With my hometown slammed by a Hurricane Sandy, this was not the most calming of weeks. Out came the comfort reads: — Barbara Michaels, Ammie, Come Home. An excellent, classic ghost story, set in an old house in Georgetown. — Helena Dela, The Count. I’ve always been sad that I’ve never been able to find…
Read MoreASHFORD AFFAIR Contest Winner
And the winner of the advance copy of The Ashford Affair is…. Suzanne B! Congrats, Suzanne! I still have two copies to give away, so stay tuned for another contest, coming up soon….
Read MoreA 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…
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