Turnip Time!
He’s baaaaacck! Today, on Smart Bitches, you can find the full, unexpergated (and did I mention free?) Amorous Addendum to The Mischief of the Mistletoe, “Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night”. Thanks to the magical talents of SB Sarah, Turnip’s missing scene is available as a PDF download, in ePub format (for…
Read MoreIf You Like….
What with the sultry summer heat, I’ve been on a huge Gothic/romantic suspense kick. So here’s this week’s “If You Like”. If you like Mary Stewart, you’ll probably also like…. — M.M. Kaye’s Death In series, in particular Death in the Andamans and Death in Kashmir; — Susanna Kearsley’s The Shadowy Horses or Season of…
Read MoreTurnip: A Teaser….
Can’t wait until tomorrow? Want a little dose of Turnip right now? To tide you over those extra few hours, here’s the first page of Turnip’s amorous addendum, “Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night”.
Read MoreTurnip– Tomorrow!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Amorous Addendum to The Mischief of the Mistletoe, “Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night”, will be posted tomorrow (Monday) on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. I’ve tried to come up with a scene worthy of Joyce’s lovely cover. Given Turnip’s proclivity to prolixity (translation:…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I have to confess, between Turnip’s love scene (sixteen pages and still going… because Turnip just won’t stop talking), Q&A for the expanded e-book version of that Austen anthology, and some other random bits and pieces, there’s been a lot of writing going on here but not a lot of reading. What have you been…
Read MoreA Blast from the Past
On this sweltering hot day (as I sit down to write Turnip’s hot love scene), here’s a little blast from the past for your amusement. Between February of 2006 and January of 2010, I blogged for a group blog called All-a-Blog. All-a-Blog has gone the way of the dodo, but my wonderful webmistress has made…
Read MoreThis and That
The “This” is this week’s Mistletoe magnet calendar winner from the If You Like comments… Amanda L.B.! Congrats Amanda! If you email me with your snail mail address, I’ll send the calendar along to you. The “That” is a post on History Hoydens, in which, inspired by Isobel Carr and the Wall Street Journal article…
Read MoreTurnip: Soon to Have Another Chapter!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Teaser Tuesday to announce… there’s been a winner in the Turnip Cover Contest! Head over to Smart Bitches, Trashy Books to check out the hand drawn cover by Joyce. Yep, you read that right: hand drawn. I am in awe. Huge kudos to Joyce! (They actually look like Turnip and…
Read MoreIf You Like….
I’m one book into the Ice and Fire series and thoroughly hooked. So…. If you like Game of Thrones, you’ll probably also like: — The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold; — The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley; — Arrows of the Queen, by Mercedes Lackey; — Daughter of the Empire, by…
Read MoreTurnip: the Vote!
It’s that time. The entries are in. It’s time to vote in the “Sexytimes for Turnip” cover contest. Just head on over to Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, where the polls are currently open and will be until tomorrow night. If there is sufficient acclaim for any of the covers, I’ll uphold my end of the…
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