Happy Valentine's Day!
In honor of Valentine’s Day, below is a post I wrote a few years ago about my favorite declarations of love. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you….” They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. With that as my excuse, I plan to shamelessly imitate…
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Out there on the internet today, you can find: — a lovely review of Garden Intrigue on AAR; — an interview with me in the Legal News; — traveling back to 2005, RT hosts a romance retrospective featuring the original Pink Carnation— and a Garden Intrigue give-away!; — Dear Author picks Garden Intrigue as a…
Read MoreIf You Like….
As part of the countdown to The Garden Intrigue (we’re practically there!), this is going to be a special, Bonaparte-themed If You Like. The Garden Intrigue is set largely at Josephine Bonaparte’s country house, Malmaison. (You can see my pictures of Malmaison by scrolling down a bit here.) Various Bonapartes play an active role in…
Read MoreGARDEN INTRIGUE: Eloise & Colin
There are masques at Malmaison and a film crew at Selwick Hall. As some of you may recall (spoilers for those who haven’t read The Orchid Affair!), Jeremy has rented out Selwick Hall for a Regency-set production of Much Ado About Nothing, starring Micah Stone and– possibly– involving Regency rap. Colin is not thrilled. Without…
Read MoreGARDEN INTRIGUE– Miss Gwen
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon returns in The Garden Intrigue, playing a Pirate Queen in Emma and Augustus’ masque at Malmaison. As you can imagine, Miss Gwen has a little too much fun laying about with that cardboard cutlass…. For your entertainment, here’s my favorite Miss Gwen-related excerpt: the ill-fated first rehearsal of the masque Emma and…
Read MorePawling Book Cove– Today!
Join me, Sarah MacLean and Maya Rodale for a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration today at the Book Cove in Pawling, New York! We’ll be there from 1:00 until about 2:30. You know you want to be there….
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As those of you who follow me on Facebook know, I just heard yesterday that Sandra Gulland, author of the Josephine B. Trilogy, will be writing a YA book about Josephine’s daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais. Which I am particularly excited about since I wrote a YA book about Hortense back in 1994 (when I was…
Read MoreLe Weekend
For those of you in the New York area, come join me at the Book Cove in Pawling at 1:00 on Saturday! For those of you here, there, or anywhere, it’s The Garden Intrigue excerpt weekend here on the website. Tune in tomorrow for a bit of Chapter Fifteen with Miss Gwen as Pirate Queen…
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In keeping with the Friday Night Lights theme, I’ve been re-reading Susan Elizabeth Philips’ Chicago Stars series, starting with It Had To Be You and This Heart of Mine. (I’m still trying to figure out what I did with my copy of Heaven, Texas.) I have no idea how I wound up with a football…
Read MorePawling Valentine's Day Spectacular!
No, no, I promise, really, we won’t be on ice or trying to do a kick-line or anything like that (trust me, you don’t want to see me trying to do a kick-line) but Sarah MacLean, Maya Rodale and I will be at the Book Cove in Pawling, New York this Saturday at 1:00 talking…
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