WORD Bookstore Tonight!
If you’re in the New York area, come join me tonight at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn as WORD inaugurates their new Romance section with a panel moderated by the wonderful Sarah MacLean, featuring me, Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches (if you haven’t heard her speak, you’re missing out), Hope Tarr, Tessa Woodward of Avon Books…
Read MoreToday's ORCHID Cover
One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about the contest submissions is how different they all are from each other. As a governess, Laura, heroine of The Orchid Affair, spends a lot of time standing in the doorway between nursery and schoolroom, listening. Listening for her charges, listening for her employer, listening so she can…
Read MoreLe Cover du Jour
Like the lady in this portrait, Laura Grey, the heroine of The Orchid Affair, is dark-haired and dark-eyed and always, always wears dark clothing. So many entries have come in that I may start displaying two a day!
Read MoreToday's Cover Loveliness
This cover is really rather prescient. Although you can’t tell from Chapter One, there’s a major sub-theme in The Orchid Affair involving the art and the artists of the 1790’s. My heroine grew up in the heart of Europe’s artistic diaspora, while my hero’s (deceased) wife, Julie Jaouen, was a major painter in her own…
Read MoreThe Cover of the Day
The Cover Contest fabulousness has been flooding into my inbox since last week. Once the contest ends, I’ll be posting all the covers at once so that you can vote on your favorites. But August 2nd is such a long way away… and the covers are too pretty to keep to myself until then. So,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Hi, all! Mostly, I’ve been re-reading Heyer this week (along with L.M. Montgomery’s Blue Castle and Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, Heyer is a favorite comfort read), but since I’ve discussed Heyer so much here on the site recently, I won’t go into details. Instead, since I could very much use some new recommendations,…
Read MoreCover Contest!
Ready, set… photoshop! Over the past few days, there has been some debate over the cover of The Orchid Affair. Here’s my challenge to you: to produce your ideal Orchid Affair cover, whether you do it via photoshop, collage, or interpretive dance. (Okay, maybe not interpretive dance.) This idea was brought to me by Pam,…
Read MoreORCHID AFFAIR has a cover!
After going incognito for so long, The Orchid Affair finally has an official public face: I particularly love the writing on the sky. Orchid Affair skedaddles into stores on January 20th, but it’s already available for pre-order at Amazon, B&N, and Borders. You can find the first chapter here.
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Hi, all! I’m deep in Pink IX land, so this will all be a bit more ad hoc than usual. Despite spending most of my time in May of 1804, being regaled with awful poetry by Augustus Whittlesby, I’ve managed to stumble on two new “keeper” authors this week– with a little help from my…
Read MoreMore Happiness for MISTLETOE
One of the most nerve-wracking parts of the long delay between manuscript completion and publication is waiting for those first reviews to start coming in. But, phew! Review #2 has arrived for The Mischief of the Mistletoe and it is as lovely as lovely can be. Allison of Allure of Books writes, “I can promise…
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