BLOOD LILY Reading Group Guide

Hi, all! Now that The Betrayal of the Blood Lily is officially out in the world, I can unveil for you the Blood Lily Reading Group Guide. This is a series of discussion questions designed to facilitate reading group meetings (or simply for your own entertainment). Warning: there are spoilers! As always, if you’d like…

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Fabulous BLOOD LILY Review

I didn’t think it could get much better than being compared to a plate of warm chocolate chip cookies, but BookPage may be a contender for favorite review of Blood Lily. The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, says BookPage, “will delight readers with its vivid historical detail, deeply honorable characters fighting against truly wicked villains…

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Mega-Contest!

In celebration of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily‘s publication day (happy publication day, Blood Lily!), I’m launching a new contest on the Contest page. We’ve had the mini-contests… now here’s the mega contest. The prize? An advance copy of the first two chapters of the next Pink book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, starring…

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Contest Winner #7 & Eloise Excerpt!

Here we are! The last of the mini-contest winners and the last of the excerpts! Now that we’ve done all the mini-contests, stay tuned for the announcement of the Mega Contest later today. In the meantime, the winner of the very last Blood Lily Countdown mini-contest prize is… Robin! Congrats, Robin. Email me your info,…

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More Fun!

A new Q&A on Strange & Random Happenstance about BLOOD LILY, et al….

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Welcome, BLOOD LILY!!!!!

It’s here! At last! Today The Betrayal of the Blood Lily officially hits the shelves. I can’t wait to hear what you think of it. Since I was having so much fun with those pictures of book displays people were sending me earlier this week, if you feel inspired to snap a picture of Blood…

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Contest Winner #6 & BLOOD LILY Excerpt!

That was a close-run contest! It was neck and neck between Penelope & Alex and Eloise & Colin. (Sorry, Freddy, old thing.) So, here is my exceedingly cunning plan. Since Penelope and Alex did win, fair and square (at least as of my last count this morning), I’m going to post their excerpt today. BUT,…

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Interview on Word Wenches

Only one more day until BLOOD LILY!!! Check out Word Wenches for an all new Q&A about the writing of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, India in 1804, and just about everything else. It seems particularly appropriate to be appearing on Word Wenches today of all days because today is the day that Cara…

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Mini-Contest #6– the Penultimate Contest!

Only two days left to go until BLOOD LILY!!!!!! Since this whole “pick your own adventure thing” seemed to work rather well yesterday, let’s do it again today. Tomorrow, in honor of Blood Lily‘s imminent release, I’ll be posting a short excerpt from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. What would you most like to…

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