THE SEDUCTION OF THE CRIMSON ROSE Read Along: Tonight!
Practice your triple entendres, grab a crimson cocktail, and get ready for tonight’s Pink Carnation Read Along Zoom discussion of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose with super special guest co-host Sarah Wendell of Smart B*tches! The Zoom link has been sent out to registrants, which means the registration form is now closed. If you…
Read MoreThe Winner of the Eleventh Annual Pinkorama Contest Is….
Congratulations to all of this year’s Pinkorama entrants! You are all winners– or, rather, the rest of us are the winners for getting to see all the loveliness you’ve created. I am, as always, in utter awe of the scenes you’ve spun from marshmallow and sugar. This year’s entries brought us everything from dancing penguins…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! I need to get back to the Team W chapter I’m working on, but wanted to pop in for just a moment to talk about this week’s books! I started the week with Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s Dance Away With Me, in which a grieving widow moves to a remote rural cabin– but finds…
Read MoreThe 2021 Pinkorama Round-Up
Calling all 2021 Pinkorama participants to take a bow! Or curtsy. Or, like my first grader, a twirl followed by a full split. (I have no idea how she does that.) After several days of superlative sugary creations, it’s time for the 2020 Pinkorama Round Up! This year, we’ve got secret meetings in bookshops, Colin as…
Read MoreBook Club Bundle!
Who wants to be the book club hostess with the mostest? I’m thrilled to announce that Red Jacket Books is offering a Band of Sisters book club bundle! Everyone who orders between three and six copies for their book club (or just for themselves, I suppose?), gets a 15% discount on their order, a set…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! There’s been so much going on this week– the Team W book, my next book, the Pinkorama, an art exhibit in which I got to take part– that I’m having trouble remembering what I’ve read. Do you ever have those weeks where Monday feels an awfully long way away from Friday? Or…
Read MorePinkorama #4: “The Peepwedding of Emmie and Captain DeWitt”
For our fourth and final Pinkorama of 2021, Debbi Olson brings us… “The Peepwedding of Emmie and Captain DeWitt” from Band of Sisters! WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ BAND OF SISTERS YET, STOP HERE! SPOILERS AHEAD! (Unless you’re one of those people who likes to flip to the end of the book, in which…
Read MorePinkorama #3: “The Slaughter of the Peepocents”
For our third Pinkorama, the sister team of Candace and Cassandra bring us “The Slaughter of the Peepocents” from The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla! Candace and Cassandra write: In this scene from Chapter 9 of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, while Lucien Caldicott , the Duke of Belliston, is trying to figure out…
Read MorePinkorama #2: “The Peepduction of the Crimson Rose”
For our second Pinkorama of 2021, the mother and daughter team of Carla and Rowan whisk us away to London in 2003– with a side of Mary Poppins!– in this scene drawn from The Seduction of the Crimson Rose. That Eloise. She’s always daydreaming and going off into somewhat disorganized flights of fancy when she…
Read MorePinkorama #1: “Peeping on the Princess of the Peepchritudinous Toes”
I am delighted to present to you the 2021 Pinkoramae! Thank you so much to everyone for making this the tradition it has become, where every spring, as surely as the rains and the flowers, we find a magnificent rainbow of Peep dioramae. Every year, I look forward to seeing what you’ll create– and it’s…
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