Pink X: Now Available for Pre-Order!
Happy news! The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, aka Pink X, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Books-a-Million and Indiebound. The Passion of the Purple Plumeria hits the shelves on August 6, 2013. You can learn more about the book and read an excerpt here. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s up…
Read MoreIf You Like….
When I posted a call for “If You Like” queries a few weeks ago, one of the requests that popped up was for “Lady Academic Fiction”, fiction set in an academic setting or with a grad student/professor as the protagonist. What could be more appropriate for back to school season? If you like Lady Academic…
Read MoreApologies!
If you’re getting a strange string of techno-gabble every time you post a comment, it’s not just you. When we switched the website over to the new format, a bug snuck into the Comments function. (I picture it as large and cockroach-like.) Bizarrely, it doesn’t seem to impede the comment posting. It’s just a little…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, most of my discretionary reading time has been swallowed up by contest entries for a contest I probably shouldn’t name in a category that must also remain nameless. Which means that I can’t list any of it, because it would all be a dead give-away. Here’s what I can tell you I’ve been…
Read MoreTen Questions
The other day, I answered ten questions for Kayla of the Pittsburgh Historical Fiction Examiner (to see the questions and my answers, just click here). Since I thought her questions were rather fun, I’m passing along three of them to you. 1. You’re having a dinner party and you can invite 5 people from history,…
Read MoreWriting 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…
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