Pre-Order WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHTFALL 25% Off!
Pre-order your Spooky Season reading now! What Happens at Nightfall is 25% off for members at Barnes & Noble today through Friday, June 26th! Make sure you get your hands on the book Kristan Higgins calls “[a] delicious mix of humor, horror, Gothic romance and ghosts… an absolute winner.” To learn more about What Happens…
Read MoreJune Newsletter!
For the first time in forever, I have… a newsletter! There’s just one slight problem. It turns out I can’t actually email it out the way I formatted it, so… I’m still working on that. But the plan, assuming I can figure out the technology (bah, humbug) is to send out a Newsletter every month,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round Up
Happy Friday, all! The absolute stand out book of this week for me was a 1990s British cozy mystery, recommended by one of my favorite book gurus, Robin Agnew of Aunt Agatha’s, Hazel Holt’s Gone Away. The heroine is a widow in her fifties in a small English village (also an esteemed literary critic, although…
Read MoreJuly 9 in Litchfield, CT!
It’s been a pretty intense spring book tour season and it’s going to be an even more intense fall book tour season (details coming soon!), so I’m mostly going to be hiding in the writing cave this summer. But! I will be emerging for one event…. Join me at Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield CT…
Read MoreThe Winner of the Sixteenth Annual Pinkorama Contest Is….
First, huge thanks to all of this year’s Pinkorama participants! It’s always like Christmas crossed with a birthday when your entries arrive in my inbox: the surprise of seeing what you’ve chosen to depict this year and the sheer joy of seeing the beauty you’ve made. I am, as always, in utter awe of your…
Read MoreThe 2026 Pinkorama Round Up
Calling all 2026 Pinkorama participants to take a bow! It’s time for the 2026 Pinkorama Round Up! This year, we’ve got Alexander Hamilpeep brandishing a candelabrum in the courtroom, the elephantine excesses of the Naughty Hellfire Club, a family in hiding in Occupied Paris in World War II, and a wild book party at the…
Read MorePinkorama #4: “Valley Peep Celebration”
Last but never least, for our final Pinkorama of 2026, returning champions Candace and Cassandra and new team member Cara bring us the Valley Peep Celebration from the Epilogue of the most recent Team W book, The Peeps’ Guide to Murder! And now I’ll turn you over to Candace and Cassandra to set the scene….…
Read MorePinkorama #3: “All the Ways We Said Goodpeep”
For our third Pinkorama of 2026, Debbi transports us to occupied Paris in World War II with a scene from the third Team W book, All the Ways We Said Goodpeep! In this charming domestic moment, our heroine, Daisy, and her children, Madeleine and Olivier, are in hiding in the tiny quarters of “bookseller” Kit, waiting…
Read MorePinkorama #2: “Lady Charlotte and the Charlatans”
It is with great delight that I welcome back returning champions Laura and Carrie to the Pinkorama! For the second Pinkorama of 2026, Laura and Carrie bring you “Lady Charlotte and the Charlatons,” or, Damsel Among the Damned from Pink Carnation V, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. And now, I’ll turn it over to Laura and…
Read MorePinkorama #1: “Is This the Peep?”
They’re heeeeeere!!! Some people see April showers or bluebirds as harbingers of spring. For me? It’s the Pinkorama. I look forward every year to seeing which scenes you’ll chose, what incredible literary confections you’ll create. This year did not disappoint. It is with great pleasure that I bring you the first of this year’s Pinkoramae!…
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