18th Century Cosmo
Ever wondered how to make your Empire-waisted dress work for you? Or needed some of Lady Henrietta’s Advice for the Lovelorn? Below the fold, you can drool over the (watercolor) centerfold and take the 18th Century Cosmo Quiz as you learn how to entice your rake and freshen up quickly at a ball. As always,…
Read More18th Century Cosmo: Last Call!
It’s your last chance to send in your entry for the 18th Century Cosmo Contest! Submissions end tonight and the voting will start tomorrow. You can’t imagine how hard it’s been to wait to share these entries with you all…. Check back tomorrow for the full panoply of 18th Century Cosmo wisdom!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It’s been a very YA-heavy week for me. Here’s what I’ve been reading: — Meg Cabot, Abandon Book 2: Underworld. This was one of the freebies from the Romantic Times Convention. The plus side of freebies? I get to read books I might not otherwise have stumbled upon. The downside? Sometimes I come into series…
Read MorePinkorama Winners
This year’s Pinkoramas were, in a word, peeptastic. Every single one was amazing, from Richard’s tiny eye mask in Amy Meets the Purple Peeptian to Delaroche’s curled mustache in The Extra Special Inpeepogation Chamber to the hilarious intro to Peep Inception to the candy Axminster carpet in The Ambush on the Peep Aimee. Take a…
Read More"Too Tempting" Winner
The Too Tempting to Resist winner is… … Kylene! (Of Comment 11.) Congrats, Kylene! If you email me with the details, I’ll pop the ARC in the mail to you. In the meantime, stay tuned for: — Pinkorama winners later today; — Cosmo Contest entries revealed on Saturday; — and a give-away of Beatriz Williams’…
Read MoreGrass Huts and Coronets
Come find me on History Hoydens today, talking about the (now re-titled!) 1920’s book….
Read More"Tempting" Give Away
If I’m being accurate, it’s really a “Too Tempting” give away– as in Cara Elliott’s upcoming novel, Too Tempting to Resist, the latest in her Lords of Midnight series. Determined to stop her wayward brother from squandering their dwindling fortune, Lady Eliza Brentford decides to follow him to his favorite den of depravity. There, among…
Read MoreWebinar!
I am thrilled to announce that I am going to be teaching an on-line seminar for Writer’s Digest University. I’m particularly thrilled because… yes, I was that pre-teen with a stack of Writer’s Digest in my bedroom. When other people were buying Seventeen for “Five Tricks to Tighter Abs”, I was reading “Five Tricks to…
Read MoreIf You Like….
If you like gothic tales with a hint of the ghostly and a literary slant, you’ll probably like…. — John Harwood’s The Ghost Writer, which combines turn of the century ghost stories, a creepy inherited house, and a mysterious pen pal; — Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, in which a dark and twisted past is…
Read MoreMore Downton….
Just in case you’re missing your Sunday evening Downton Abbey fix, here’s the latest of the spoofs: Thanks, Miss Eliza, for sending me the link!
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