Writing 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…
Read MoreWriting Wednesday: If It Ain't Broke….
The French are the masters of contradictory concepts, such as the belle laide: the ugly beauty. Then there’s my personal favorite: the idiot savant, the learned fool. These concepts are always hard to translate, but the idiot savant is someone who manages to perform brilliantly at something without really knowing the how or why. Sometimes,…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Vaughn is Back
Well, sort of. You know how The Ashford Affair is meant to be non-Pink and stand alone and all of those fun things? It is– for the most part. With one notable exception: Vaughn. Or rather, the spawn of Vaughn. (Sorry, I just couldn’t resist the way it rhymed.) In 1926, a particularly decadent set…
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