Pink X: The Purple Plumeria
It’s time for an update on Pink X: The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. We have a release date! If Amazon (Japan) is to be believed, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria will be making its way into bookstores on August 6, 2013. I also have a little announcement to make about it. Unlike the…
Read MoreASHFORD Around the World
I just got word of two new foreign editions of The Ashford Affair! In addition to English, Ashford will be available in Italian, Polish, Spanish, and German. I’m particularly excited because I’ve never had a Polish or Italian edition of any of my books before. I wonder which language we’ll see next?
Read MoreWriting Wednesday: Manuscript Stages
Yesterday, as I went to drop off the marked up proofs of The Ashford Affair at the UPS store down the block, it occurred to me that there might be some interest in the stages a manuscript goes through as it makes its way towards book form. You know that bit where you type in…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Why 1999?
Last week, I posted Chapter One of The Ashford Affair. The book goes back and forth between England in the 1910s and early 1920s, Kenya in the mid to late 1920s, and New York in 1999. If the New York bit is meant to be the modern portion, why 1999? Other than the fact that…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Yes, yes, we’ve all heard of Fifty Shades and the rise of the erotic romance. But what of those love stories that don’t spell it all out in anatomical detail? If you like “closed door” romance, you’ll probably like…. — Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, still the champion after all these years. There’s nothing…
Read MoreDARE ME: Chapter Four
It’s Saturday– and that means Chapter Four of Dare Me! For those coming into the summer serial in the middle, you can start with Chapter One by clicking here. Happy reading!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This has been a very Regency inflected reading week for me. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Joan Wolf, The Arrangement. Very few people can write Regencies in the first person and get away with it– and Joan Wolf does it so very well. The Arrangement, in which an independent single mother finds herself entangled,…
Read MoreASHFORD: The Final Cover!
My publisher just sent me the last, absolutely the last, tweaked to perfection, high resolution version of the cover of The Ashford Affair. So if anyone would like the high res version to share on your blog, post on Facebook, or paste on your bedroom walls, here it is! (Or email me if you need…
Read MoreWin an ARC!
Nope, not one of my books (at least, not yet). One of the perks of authordom is getting an advance crack at reading other peoples’ books. One of my favorites this past year was A Lady Never Lies by debut author Juliana Gray. The book takes the plot of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost , transposing…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Meet Clemmie
Like the Pink books, The Ashford Affair goes back and forth between the historical story and the present day. (Well, almost present day. It’s 1999 in the world of the book, which is longer ago than it should be.) In this instance, my modern heroine is Clemmie, a thirty-four year old associate at a major…
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