Teaser Tuesday: "Two L"
As announced last week, I’ll be exhuming my old law school satire, Two L, from the vault of lost novels later this month. Basically, Two L is Measure for Measure meets Evelyn Waugh meets Legally Blonde meets too much free coffee my 3L year. I debated long and hard about putting it out there because,…
Read MoreIf You Like….
If you like L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle, you’ll probably also like: — Colleen McCullough’s The Ladies of Missalonghi, which is basically The Blue Castle with a twist; — Robin McKinley’s Beauty, with its reclusive hero and heroine just learning to come into her own; — Eva Ibbotson’s A Company of Swans, where the heroine…
Read MoreThe Law School Novel– Coming Soon!
As some of you know, around the same time I was writing The Deception of the Emerald Ring, in the winter of 2005/6, I was also writing something else, a satire set at Harvard Law, based on the plot of Measure for Measure. I called it Two L. Two L enjoyed a limited circulation among…
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This week has been a hodge-podge of old and new. I finally got around to Donna Andrews’ The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (for those who haven’t read the series, start with Murder With Peacocks), picked up Mary Balogh’s A Secret Affair (note to self: next time start with Book 1 in the series, not…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Augustus
In the midst of all the Mistletoe mania, poor Augustus and Emma have been entirely shuffled to the side. It’s tough competing with Turnip. So, as an apology to them– and to you, for giving you your Teaser Tuesday on a Wednesday!– here’s one of my very favorite scenes from The Garden Intrigue: the ill-fated…
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If you like Downton Abbey, you’ll probably also like…. — the original Upstairs, Downstairs; — parts I and II of The House of Elliott; — The Duchess of Duke Street; — The Remains of the Day, both book and movie; — Gosford Park; — Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance; — Stella Gibbons’ Cold…
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My redoubtable web mistress has just made a number of additions to the website. In addition to the Printable Book List and the Recommended Reading Order, you can now find a Pink Cheat Sheet on the Books page, listing the who, what, where and when of each book. Because, let’s face it, once you get…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
There are a whole bunch of new books I’ve been wanting to read (Meredith Duran’s A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal, Loretta Chase’s Silk is For Seduction, Tana French’s Faithful Place), but I’m saving them to use as bribery later in the summer, so, instead, I’ve been back to some old comfort reads. — Donna Andrews,…
Read MoreIvy & Intrigue: the Outtakes
While pulling up my old Ivy & Intrigue files the other day, I stumbled across a file I’d forgotten: the Ivy & Intrigue outtakes. For a hundred page novella, it yielded a surprising number of outtakes. Here, for your amusement, are the cream of the crop.
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Among the amusing bits of this and that making their way around the internet today, we have the winners of this year’s Bulwar-Lytton Contest. My favorite? The historical fiction entry, of course: Napoleon’s ship tossed and turned as the emperor, listening while his generals squabbled as they always did, splashed the tepid waters in his…
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