Today'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,…
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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…
Read MoreA MISTLETOE Outtake (or Why I Love Turnip)
As the heat wave sweeps the Northeast, with temperatures hitting the triple digits in Central Park, it seemed time for a little something frosty, like a cold carriage ride in an English winter. Below, for your reading amusement, is one of my favorite outtakes from The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Bundle up, put on your…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
One of the fringe benefits of going to conferences is the books. Lots ‘n lots of books. I came back from the Poisoned Pen conference in Arizona with a number of wonderful new friends and an even larger number of new books to read. So here’s the latest list….
Read MoreFour months to MISTLETOE….
In the meantime, here’s a wonderful pre-review review from Miss Eliza of Strange and Random Happenstance. Miss Eliza calls The Mischief of the Mistletoe “the best book… to date [w]ith laugh-out-loud dialogue that leaps off the pages”. Thanks, Miss Eliza! You can find the first chapter here and the second here….
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