Winner of Mini-Contest #5 & Excerpt
It’s official. Lord Vaughn won by a landslide. His partisans outnumbered those of the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale two to one. One imagines the Duchess will have something to say about that…. In the meantime, our randomly chosen winner, recipient of the UK Black Tulip, is… Natasha! Natasha, if you email me your info, I’ll…
Read MoreA Plethora of Pink
Jessica just totally made my weekend with this picture from the Champaign Borders: No one expects the Pink Invasion….
Read MoreMini-Contest #5– and Turnip Book Excerpt!
Only three days left until BLOOD LILY!!!!! I found it incredibly amusing that the first answer to yesterday’s contest concerned a conjunction of Lord Vaughn and Turnip Fitzhugh, while the second involved Turnip and the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. Because, in fact, both of those occur in Turnip’s book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe (coming…
Read MoreWinner of Mini-Contest #4
Many fictional characters are making indignant noises just about now, seething about the indignities to which they’ve been subjected in the last mini-contest. There were some genius pairings– I, for one, would love to see Lord Vaughn attempt to deal with Amelia Peabody or the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale unleashed on Lady Catherine de Bourgh.…
Read MoreMini-Contest #4 & BLOOD LILY Out-Take
Happy Friday! THE BETRAYAL OF THE BLOOD LILY comes out next week!!!!!! Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system…. Below, I’ve posted what is probably my favorite out-take from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. It hurt to cut this scene. Without giving too much away, I can tell you that Robert…
Read MoreWinner of Mini-Contest #3
Thanks, all, for weighing in on the Henrietta/Charlotte/Penelope trichotomy! For once, it looks like Henrietta got a run for her money. And, as some of you pointed out, it wasn’t quite fair to Penelope, since we don’t know her as well yet. At least, not until next week! (Evil laughter here.) Our randomly chosen winner…
Read MoreCalling All Librarians
It has been borne in on me recently that my closet is very full. Full of books. (Nothing bears this in on one like an avalanche of hardcovers hurtling towards your head as you try to conduct the simple action of extracting a coat from a hanger.) In particular, I have ten extra copies of…
Read MoreMini-Contest #3
Only five days until The Betrayal of the Blood Lily!! Blood Lily features the third in a triumvirate of three very different friends, Henrietta (The Masque of the Black Tulip), Charlotte (The Temptation of the Night Jasmine) and Penelope. If one had to type them in a broad-brush way, Henrietta is the one who holds…
Read MoreWinner of Mini-Contest #2
Thank you all for your amazing actor suggestions for Robert! As your answers came in, I spent way too much time yesterday on IMDB, going “Ahhhhh….” (and occasionally, “Oooh!”). Since there’s really no way to pick among the Roberts (unless they’d all like to come audition for us? Pretty please?), the winner, chosen at random,…
Read MoreBooklist calls BLOOD LILY "best entry to date"….
There’s another super review for The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, this time from Booklist. Booklist writes, “Willig brings colonial India to vibrant life through Penelope’s eyes, and the sparks flying between Penelope and Alex generate plenty of heat. By taking the story to India, Willig injects a new energy in her already thriving, thrilling…
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