Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday! As we recover from yesterday’s excesses, here’s this week’s reading in review: As I may have mentioned a while back, I let myself be talked into judging a contest that shall remain nameless in a category that shall also remain nameless, so this week was largely about bludgeoning through large stacks of contest…
Read MoreThanksgiving Give Away!
Happy Thanksgiving! By popular demand, here’s another Thursday give away, to while away those hours of post-turkey coma. Our special Thanksgiving Thursday give away is the first in Eloisa James’s fairy tale series, A Kiss at Midnight. Here’s the official blurb: Miss Kate Daltry doesn’t believe in fairy tales . . .or happily ever after.…
Read MoreIf You Like….
I was chatting with a friend the other day about popular history books that read like novels. They haven’t quite reached the “add dialogue and stir” stage (i.e. Jean Plaidy), but they’re way too much fun to be assigned in history classes. If you like biographies and history books that read like novels, you’ll probably…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
And the winner of the signed copy of The Cocoa Conspiracy is… Leslie! (Of Comment #10.) Leslie, if you’ll email me with your snail mail info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Thanks so much to everyone who participated. My mouth was watering just reading about all those desserts. In the meantime,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
To make up for last week’s reading slump, this week has been a book bonanza, in multiple genres. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Juliana Gray, A Gentleman Never Tells. This is the second in a series based on Love’s Labor’s Lost, set in the late nineteenth century in a villa in Tuscany.…
Read MoreThursday Give Away
For today’s Thursday give away, we have a signed copy of the second book in Andrea Penrose’s Regency-set mystery series, The Cocoa Conspiracy. Here’s the official blurb: Chocolate mixed with conspiracy is a recipe for death… Lady Arianna Hadley, now the Countess of Saybrook, is slowly settling into married life with her new husband, the…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Before ASHFORD
Every character has a backstory– and every backstory has a backstory. When I was working on The Ashford Affair, I was particularly struck by this, by all the stories, stretching back generation after generation, each shaping the next. When we meet my historical heroine, Addie, in 1906, her parents have just died in an omnibus…
Read MoreThursday Give Away Winner
Many apologies for this tardy post! I’ve been on the road and had some trouble posting remotely. The winner of Alison Pace’s You Tell Your Dog First is… Kayleigh! (Of Comment #9.) Kayleigh, if you email me with your details, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Up this Thursday? Book 2 in…
Read MoreTexas Signing– Today!
Today, I’ll be signing books at the Stonebriar Centre B&N in Frisco from 3:00 on, along with a fabulous group of authors including Eloisa James, Sarah MacLean, Elizabeth Boyle, and Cathy Maxwell. You know you want to be there…. In other news, book tour planning is just getting going for The Ashford Affair in April.…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve had a week of book discontent. It’s been one of these weeks where I’ll start a book and toss it aside after a few chapters. I can’t blame it on the books. Some have been tried and true old favorites like Barbara Michaels’s The Crying Child (a Gothic ghost story), Melissa Nathan’s The Nanny…
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