A bit about "Blood Lily"
I’d completely forgotten that Penguin (the publishing house, not the Batman villain) had filmed me last year at RWA, talking about The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. Here’s that little snippet:
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Pink IX has a title!!
That sort of counts as a teaser, doesn’t it? Thanks so much to everyone who suggested flowers for the title of Pink IX. It was a tough one. We’d already used roses; lilies weren’t quite right… and so on. The action of Pink IX takes place largely at Josephine’s country house, Malmaison, with its famous…
Read MoreAnd the winner is….
First, may I say how blown away I was by all the entries for the first ever Pink Carnation peep diorama contest? When I posted the contest a little over a month ago, I had no idea that sort of historical accuracy and emotional resonance could be achieved with bits of marshmallow dusted with colored…
Read MoreFor your amusement…
…the “which Regency heroine are you?” quiz! For some strange reason, I wound up as “Bookish’”. Which Regency heroine are you?
Read MoreWeekly Round-Up
As I write in haste while dashing for a train to Boston, this is going to be a short post. Among other things, this week I read Mary Stewart’s Rose Cottage (still not on my short list of favorite Stewart books) and Robert Graves’ surprisingly amusing World War I memoir, Goodbye to All That. This…
Read MoreLive from the MBA
And by the MBA, I mean the Massachusetts Bar Association. Are you a lawyer who’d rather not be? Tomorrow afternoon, from noon until one o’clock, I’ll be teaming up with Gina Walcott of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and Lynne Riquelme to discuss Non-Traditional Uses of a Law Degree in a live webchat. You can view–…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Turnip
There’s been a lot of Mistletoe love recently. Three of the seven Pinkoramas feature scenes from The Mischief of the Mistletoe (go, Turnip!); I got word last week that Mistletoe will be published in a UK edition; and, of course, Turnip– I mean, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, was nominated for RWA’s RITA award. So…
Read MorePinkorama: the Vote!
Here it is, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… the Pinkorama vote! With seven strong candidates, which will take home the prize? In the order in which they arrived in my inbox, here are the Pink Carnation peep dioaramas: 1. “Ivy & Peeptrigue” by Jean. (For more details, click here.) 2. “The Mispeep of…
Read MorePinkorama #7
Otherwise known as “Peck, my peeps! Peck!” In this flashback to The Deception of the Emerald Ring, brought to us by Kate, Christine, Jess, and Yao, it’s 2003 and Eloise is hard at work at her favorite desk in the British Library reading room. (Check out her tiny laptop!) Meanwhile, back in 1803, Miss Gwen…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Books, books, everywhere, and not a thing to read. I’m just about finished with the book I’m currently reading and have no idea what to pick up next. Any thoughts? Here’s what I’ve been reading over the past few days: — Susan Holloway Scott, The Countess and the King. Subtitled “A Novel of the Countess…
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