Pink X has a title!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Weekly Reading Round-Up for this special announcement: Pink X has a title! Miss Gwen’s book, coming out in summer 2013, will henceforth officially be known as THE PASSION OF THE PURPLE PLUMERIA. Here’s the official description: Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who…
Read MoreASHFORD on Goodreads
As I continue to chart the progress of The Ashford Affair around the web, it’s now up on Goodreads! Please feel free to be the first to start a discussion, add it to the to-read pile, or put it in a list….
Read MoreWriting Wednesday: Time Management
A lot of you have asked me to talk about juggling work and writing or writing and social media. I can’t help feeling a bit like it’s the blind leading the blind here (my time management skills are far from stellar), but, for what it’s worth, here are my two bits, in a do as…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: ASHFORD Origins
The Ashford Affair, my 1920s book, arose out of the confluence of three things: 1) A friend gave me Frances Osborne’s book, The Bolter, about the life of Idina Sackville, the much-married socialite who bounced back and forth between husbands and between London and Kenya. What really struck me about the book was the foreword,…
Read MoreASHFORD All Over!
The Ashford Affair is popping up all over! In addition to Amazon, you can find The Ashford Affair for pre-order on: — Books-A-Million — Indiebound — Powell’s — The Poisoned Pen. It doesn’t seem to be up on Barnes & Noble quite yet, but I’ll keep an eye out and let you know when it…
Read MoreGARDEN INTRIGUE Paperback Update
The date I was given by my publisher for The Garden Intrigue paperback is January 13, 2013. On the other hand, Amazon, B&N and the league of independent bookstores seem to believe it’s December 31, 2012. I’m going with the bookstores on this one. The happy news is that The Garden Intrigue paperback is now…
Read MoreASHFORD: Available for Pre-Order!
If it’s up on Amazon, it must be real, right? As of last night, The Ashford Affair is available for pre-order on Amazon. You can read the first chapter here. Cover and more excerpts coming soon!
Read MoreIf You Like….
In tomorrow’s Teaser Tuesday, I talk about some of the inspiration for The Ashford Affair, my 1920s book. That got me thinking, of course, about my favorite novels of the 1920s and 30s, since I spent a lot of time reading various writers of the period in order to get the tone right for Ashford.…
Read MoreGARDEN INTRIGUE in Paperback!
This just in: The Garden Intrigue comes out in paperback on January 13, 2013. Whoever said that thirteen was an unlucky number? It’s not available for pre-order yet, but as soon as it is, I’ll let you know….
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been continuing the old favorites kick this week, rediscovering more books on the back of the shelves: — Barbara Michaels, Shattered Silk. Okay, I’ll admit it. At one point, this was one of my less-favored Barbara Michaels novels. I adored the previous book in the trilogy, Ammie, Come Home, which has an excellent ghost…
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