Garden Intrigue Fun Facts
With only a week and two days to go until the release of The Garden Intrigue, here are some fun facts…. — The heroine of The Garden Intrigue was originally named Eliza rather than Emma. Her character was based off two real life Elizas, James Monroe’s daughter Eliza Monroe and Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza de…
Read MoreGARDEN INTRIGUE Give-Away– Tonight!
I’ll be giving away my reading copy of The Garden Intrigue at the end of the event tonight to one attendee chosen in a reasonably random way…. Lady Jane’s Salon, 7:00, 94 W. Houston Street. You know you want to be there!
Read MoreNew York Reading Tonight!
Come join me for the third anniversary of Lady Jane’s Salon and the inaugural reading of The Garden Intrigue! Eloisa James will be reading from her new memoir, Paris in Love, and Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches will be guest emcee. I have also heard that there will be drinks involving pink champagne. The fun…
Read MoreReading on Monday!
Late breaking news! I will be doing my inaugural reading from The Garden Intrigue this Monday (February 6) at Lady Jane’s Salon in New York. I’m thrilled to be part of Lady Jane’s third anniversary celebration (how has it been three years already?). Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches will be emcee-ing and the always wonderful…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This has been another exceedingly eclectic reading week, from YA to non-fiction with some romance in between. Here’s the week’s haul: — Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society. I have to admit, it was the cover that caught my eye on this one, a rickety old mansion. A young adult novel, it’s a little…
Read MoreLucky Duck!
Eloisa James and Linda Francis Lee have an adorable club called The Lucky Duck Club. (You can read about how the Lucky Duck Club came to be here— seriously, every author needs friends like these!) Every couple of weeks, they give away an advance copy of a novel and a Swarovski crystal duck. Today, the…
Read MoreBook Tour Updates
I’m thrilled to announce that Sarah MacLean and Maya Rodale will be joining me for the event at the Pawling Book Cove on February 11th! In more mundane news, the event at Cook Library at 12:30 on February 23 has been moved from the Vernon Hills location to Cook Park Library in Libertyville (see the…
Read MoreA Day in the Life
As the Garden Intrigue blog tour begins, you can find a haphazard account of one of my disorganized days on the blog Stitch-Read-Cook. Check out the previous “Day in the Life” posts, including Teresa Medeiros (so entertaining!), Madeline Hunter, and Katie MacAlister. What does your average day look like?
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: "Garden" Fashion
Last week, I posted on History Hoydens about the visual inspiration for The Garden Intrigue, the grounds of Malmaison. On Facebook recently, I was asked to post about a different sort of visual inspiration: my heroine’s clothing. Emma, the heroine of The Garden Intrigue, is at the forefront of the Paris fashion scene. Like her…
Read MoreIf You Like….
If you like Downton Abbey, you’ll probably like…. — Eva Ibbotsen’s A Countess Below Stairs, about a Russian noblewoman who becomes a downstairs maid in an English manor house; — Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance, about a woman who rises from maid in an Edwardian house to mistress of a financial empire; —…
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