Signing in Anaheim, CA– Today!
Today, along with hundreds of other authors, I’ll be participating in RWAs “Readers for Life” literacy autographing. Proceeds from the event go to ProLiteracy and other local literacy charities. You can find me from 5:00-8:00 at the Anaheim Convention Center, at Table #405. (There’s a map of the room here.) Other wonderful authors present include…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Why Plumeria?
Last week, I announced the release date of Pink X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (aka Miss Gwen’s book). Over on Facebook, Anya posed an excellent question: why plumeria? Here’s an entirely disorganized list of reasons why: — I needed a flower that began with the letter P. It’s not just because P is…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Happy news! The audio version of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation just came in #4 in All About Romance’s Favorite Romance Audiobook poll. I have to confess, I haven’t listened to an audio book since a friend gave me a Nancy Drew novel on cassette for my birthday back in second grade. I…
Read MoreUpcoming Books
I now have release dates for all this year’s upcoming books! Ready for it? Here we go…. — December 31, 2012: The Garden Intrigue (paperback). Currently available for pre-order from Amazon, B&N, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Powell’s. — April 2, 2013: The Ashford Affair (hardcover). Currently available for pre-order from Amazon, B&N, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, and Powell’s.…
Read MoreDARE ME: Chapter Five
Welcome back to our summer serial, Dare Me! If you’ve missed the previous installments, you can start at the beginning by clicking here. And now, without further ado… Chapter Five!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week’s reading list is a fairly straightforward one for me. I retrieved a bunch of my old Joan Wolf novels from my little sister, and I’ve been reading through them, one after another. They’re all Regency-set, all told in the first person, all feature some sort of underlying mystery sub-plot, and the heroine is…
Read MorePink 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…
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