If You Like….
Since I have The Ashford Affair very much on the brain right now, if you like books set in Kenya, you’ll probably like…. — M.M. Kaye’s Death in Kenya, a 1950s set murder mystery; — Along similar lines, Elpeth Huxley’s Murder on Safari and Murder at Government House, classic 1930s mysteries by the Kenya-bred British…
Read MoreDARE ME: Chapter Three
Welcome to Chapter Three of our summer serial, Dare Me! If you’re just coming in in the middle, you can find Chapters One and Two by clicking here. Happy reading!
Read MorePink Carnation Casting Call
Carole Rae just shared with me her post casting the characters from The Garden Intrigue and The Orchid Affair. You can find her casting picks here. For more casting picks, check out Storycasting, which has a collection of casts for all the Pink books. Once The Ashford Affair is out, we’ll have to start the…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Apologies for the long weekly reading round-up hiatus! I was off in Scotland with limited internet access– and weekly reading round-up is particularly resistant to pre-programming since I never do know what I’m going to read until I read it. This week, I’ve been reading through all my old Angela Thirkell novels. For those who…
Read MoreASHFORD on B&N
The roll call of major retailers is complete! The Ashford Affair popped up on B&N this morning. Ashford is now up for pre-order on B&N, Amazon, Books-A-Million, and Indiebound. Have I left anyone out? For those who missed it, you can find the first chapter of The Ashford Affair here.
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: ASHFORD has a cover!
I am ridiculously in love with the cover of The Ashford Affair. Here’s the official blurb: From the NYT bestselling Pink Carnation author comes a new novel that is by turns epic and intimate, transporting and page-turning – spanning from WWI England to present day New York…. As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm,…
Read MoreIf You Like….
I was recently taken on a tour of the New York Yacht Club, one of the great, Gilded Age clubhouses of New York. There are more of those than one would think left in the city, tucked away. It got me thinking about the era they represent– and, of course, books depicting that era. If…
Read MoreDARE ME: Chapter Two
For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing the first seven chapters of a novel I began, just for fun, last summer. If you didn’t catch Chapter One last week, you can find it here. And now… Chapter Two! In which we meet the hero of the piece….
Read MoreGARDEN INTRIGUE on NPR
Check out this wonderful summer reading list by Eloisa James on NPR! She calls The Garden Intrigue “perfect for reading on a lawn chair in a flowery back garden with a glass of Pimm’s”– which rather makes me want Pimms Cup right now. Garden Intrigue is in good company. Also on the list you can…
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Last week, I listed some of my favorite Scottish-set historical novels. This week we’re going modern. (Well, modern as in post World War II.) If you like novels set in modern Scotland, you’ll probably like…. — Elizabeth Peter’s Legend in Green Velvet, in which a Scotland-obsessed American gets drawn into a rather bizarre intrigue involving…
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