Lauren Willig

While we’re on Pink Carnation fun facts, here’s one of my favorites: Pink began life with a completely different sort of cover.

As the Pink Carnation birthday countdown continues…. Today’s contest follows logically off yesterday’s: of all those clever Rogue titles, which one is your favorite? Five people will be selected at random to receive an advance excerpt of The Mischief of the Mistletoe— as will the authors of the top three Rogue titles.

I’m still laughing over The Reluctant Rogue’s Rustic Bride! Do you think she’ll take the Rogue to Mandalay? Or just go On the Rogue Again? Today’s winners, chosen at random, are….

As we ramble down memory lane with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, I have a secret to share.

Okay, I will confess, I didn’t do an actual count. But, using the very subjective “hey, didn’t I just read this?” method, the phrase that seemed to come up most as I read through the comments was:

As you can see, I really like this whole “fifth line” thing…. Lines that make perfect sense in context become wonderfully ridiculous out of it. So here’s the question for today: Of all of yesterday’s fifth lines, which was your favorite and why? (You can find the list of lines here.) In honor of Pink…