Contest Ideas?
I have three or four advance review copies of The Ashford Affair that need good homes and a brand new Contest page to play with, but I’m fresh out of contest ideas. Any suggestions?
Read MoreMea Culpa
Some of you may have noticed that content has been a bit spotty here on the website over the past few weeks. Here’s the reason I’ve been missing our Teaser Tuesdays and Writing Wednesdays: That’s Miss Gwen’s book! As you can imagine, she fought her happy ending kicking and screaming and slashing out with her…
Read MoreThe New Website is Here!
Isn’t it lovely? In addition to the new look, you can also find updated FAQs and new pages for both The Ashford Affair and The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (aka Pink X). As soon as I’m done with Miss Gwen’s book, I’ll be making some more updates to the site– a bibliography for Ashford,…
Read MoreThe Ballroom Goes to the Country
This site might be down this afternoon, but you can come visit me on the Ballroom Blog, where I’m talking about August entertainments. I’ll also be around on Facebook, as usual– and hopefully we should be back up and running here on Monday!
Read MoreWebsite Makeover, Etc.
As I may have mentioned here before, my website is getting a makeover. In exciting and late-breaking news, I’ve just heard that the new site may be going live this coming Monday! I’ve seen sample pages and I really can’t wait for you all to see the new look. On a related note, the site…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This has been a week of old books with crackly paper covers for me: specifically, my ancient, much read copy of Dorothy Sayers’s Busman’s Honeymoon and one of the remaining roommate care package gothics, Isabelle Holland’s Grenelle. What have you been reading?
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Bunny-on-the-Wold
I’m learning all sorts of interesting things about my characters, old and new, as I write The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. Among other things, for the very first time, we get to see Miles in situ in his family home, not Loring House in London, but the familial seat in Hampshire. It’s situated outside…
Read MoreA DOWNTON Fix
For those of you who have been missing your weekly fix of Downton Abbey, fear not! It’s coming back in just a few short months. You can find the newly released trailer for the third season here. By happy coincidence, a large chunk of The Ashford Affair takes place at the exact same time and…
Read MoreThe Lizzie Bennet Diaries
For those of you who haven’t yet stumbled upon this, there is a hysterical Pride & Prejudice based web series called the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It’s a little bit like Lost in Austen, but instead of a modern refugee in Austen-land, this is the P&P story transposed to the modern day, related in video diary…
Read MoreAnthology Give-Away #3
For those who missed it last week, Austenprose is running weekly give aways of the anthology, Jane Austen Made Me Do It, featuring a different question from the author Q&A each week. Just pop on over to Austenprose for a chance to win a copy– and to read how the various authors came up with…
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