Last Chance…
… to enter the Design Miss Gwen’s Coat of Arms Contest! You can find the rules here. The contest closes on Monday, October 1. I’ll be posting the entries on Tuesday, October 2 and opening it up for general voting. I can’t tell you how impressed I am by the entries I’ve already received!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: — Isabelle Holland, The Marchington Inheritance. Remember that care package my roommate sent me over the summer? I’ve been eking it out, book by book. This one felt bizarrely topical, since it was set in New York and involved a UN meeting. — John Harwood, The…
Read MorePink X has a Cover!
Say hello to The Passion of the Purple Plumeria! Coming to you August 6, 2013! At some point, I will get a higher resolution, corrected image (can you find the typo?), but I couldn’t resist sharing this with you right away. There was an attempt to put a parasol into the picture, but, as usual,…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Ashford Redux
As I try to hammer my way through the first few chapters of my second stand alone novel, I’ve been thinking a lot about book beginnings, all the false starts that we forget about once the book has safely taken shape. The header on all of my old files for The Ashford Affair is Ashford…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Last week, I posted about historical friends to lovers plots. This week, it’s on to contemporary-set novels. If you like friends to lovers stories set in the now (or near now), you’ll probably like…. — No one does friends to lovers stories like Kristan Higgins. My favorite is Fools Rush In, but you can’t go…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week. — Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After. I’ve been reading Harriet Evans’s books since a friend gave me A Hopeless Romantic as a gift years ago. I think of her books as the next stage after chick lit: that frank, open tone, the addressing of day…
Read MoreThere's still time…
… to submit an entry for the Design Miss Gwen’s Coat of Arm’s contest! The winning entry will be featured on an item (mug, t-shirt, tote bag) of the winner’s choice. Just email me with a jpeg of your design by October 1. To kick off the heraldic display, here’s Miss Eliza’s version of Miss…
Read MoreRadio Show– Tonight!
Tonight, at 8:30 EST, I’ll be appearing with the witty and wise Juliana Gray (aka Beatriz Williams) on Renee Bernard’s radio show, Canned Laughter and Coffee. Tune in to listen to us babble about romance novels, Wodehouse, Shakespeare, and why anglophiles have more fun.
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: ASHFORD Bibliography
In the not too distant future, a list of some of the sources I used while researching The Ashford Affair will pop up on the Diversions page. It’s by no means an exhaustive list (compiling these things months after the fact always leads to omissions, some deliberate, some accidental), but it gives you an idea.…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Among the wonderful “if you like” requests was one for novels featuring friends to lovers plots. As I started listing them, I realized that this category was much larger than I’d imagined– so I’ve broken it into two. This week, I’ll be listing historical romances featuring friends to lovers, and next week I’ll itemize my…
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