Writing Wednesday: In Medias Where?
I just had one of those lightbulb moments that are simultaneously wildly helpful and just as wildly inconvenient. I realized that I was trying to start my book in the wrong place. By which, of course, I don’t mean the wrong locale, but the wrong spot in the plot. I’ve found that for me, the…
Read MorePick Your Time Period….
The Ashford Affair boomerangs around over a rather large stretch of time on three different continents. Over on the Contest page, there’s a contest running, asking which time period you’d rather live in: 1999 New York, Edwardian England, Jazz Age London, or 1920s Kenya. The drawback to this is that I can’t see any of…
Read MoreBook Release Schedule
Now that I have pictures (because pictures always make a website post look better), here’s the book release schedule for the coming year: — December 31, 2012: The Garden Intrigue (trade paperback). Available for pre-order from Amazon, B&N, Books-a-Million, Indiebound, and your favorite local independent bookstore. — April 9, 2013: The Ashford Affair (hardcover). Available…
Read MoreAttention, Blogger Friends….
In the midst of a recent massive closet clean out, I came across a cache of The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Let’s make December the Month of Mistletoe! I’ll be giving away a number of hardcover copies of Mistletoe here on the website throughout December as we build up to the paperback release of The…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Don’t you love it when you rediscover something you’ve forgotten about and find that it’s even better than you remember? That happened to me this week with Rosemary Clement-Moore’s Maggie Quinn series. I like to describe them to people as supernatural YA Vicky Bliss. The heroine’s tart tone reminds me a great deal of vintage…
Read MoreASHFORD: The E-Book!
Late breaking news! The Ashford Affair is now available for pre-order on Kindle! (Oh, and I have a new author photo. That’s it next to Ashford. After six years of the same author photo, it seemed like time…. This one far more accurately reflects the current length of my hair!) Ashford doesn’t seem to be…
Read MoreMiss Gwen's Coat of Arms
There’s an old Shropshire saying: “Where there’s a sheep, there’s a win.” Okay, not really, but with crossed parasols on a field of sheep, there was a landslide win for Coat of Arms #4, Shelli’s entry. Here’s the official Miss Gwen Coat of Arms: (Motto: “By the swift hand of God. But if not…”) Congrats,…
Read MoreWriting Wednesday: Stone Soup
Does anyone else remember that old story, stone soup? My recollection of it is hazy, but the basic gist is this: a man shows up with a stone, saying he’s going to use it to make soup. The villagers are fascinated by the notion of soup made from a stone. One by one, they each…
Read MorePick Miss Gwen's Coat of Arms!
The entries are in! It’s time to assemble our very own College of Heralds here on the website. Five talented artists have been hard at work assembling coats of arms for Miss Gwen, complete with Latin mottoes. In no particular order, we have…. 1. By Alexa J: 2. By Cassandra: (Motto: “One Stands Upright”.) 3.…
Read MoreTHE Book
I was just remembering how, last year, I went through about a month of being obsessed with John Harwood’s The Ghost Writer. I talked about it to anyone who would listen. (If I remember correctly, it was Pam who recommended it to me, here on this site, on either If You Like or Weekly Reading…
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