Mini-Contest #1!

Hi, all! The seven day countdown to the release of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily begins! While we’re filling in the time before Blood Lily, I have an article up today on Historical Tapestry about Why I Love Men in Black Masks. There’s just one slight hitch. When the article was posted, the title…

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NIGHT JASMINE in Paperback!

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine comes out in paperback today! Despite the chilly weather in New York, I’ll be out and about, visiting it in situ. There’s nothing quite like getting to see the books in the wild… or on the bookstore shelves. I’ll be running daily mini-contests and give-aways between today and the…

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At the Romance Studio

With just two days to go until the release of the paperback edition of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, the lovely people at the Romance Studio invited me over to talk about Night Jasmine and the past, present, and future of the Pink series.

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Casting Call for NIGHT JASMINE

Poor Night Jasmine the Paperback! It keeps getting neglected in the build-up to the release of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. (Considering Penelope’s and Charlotte’s respective characters, that does seem rather par for the course.) Still, it’s only fair that Charlotte should get at least some time in the spotlight as we approach her…

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7 Questions on Writing Raw

The folks at Writing Raw, a literary e-zine, recently interviewed me about writers, writing, and those unpublished manuscripts taking up all the space in my desk drawers. (Aspiring writers might also want to check out the literary agent interview right below my piece.)

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A Bit of BLOOD LILY

Happy New Year, all! 2010 has already started with a bang for the Pink Carnation. In only four days, the paperback of Night Jasmine comes out. In just over a week, on January 12th, we have The Betrayal of the Blood Lily! Between January 5th and January 11th, I’ll be hosting daily mini-contests on the…

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Best Books of 2009

As the old year draws to a close, I’ve been seeing “best of” lists popping up all over the place. It made me stop and think about what I’ve been reading this year. Some of the books that caught my fancy were new releases, like Gail Carriger’s Soulless or Meredith Duran’s Bound by Your Touch;…

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Tuesday: the Official Day of the Pink Series

Consulting a calendar, I just realized that: — the paperback of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine comes out exactly a week from today, on Tuesday, January 5th, while — The Betrayal of the Blood Lily comes out exactly two weeks from today, on Tuesday, January 12th, — and, just to keep up the Tuesday…

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More Casting Fun

My family has a holiday tradition of giving each other movies– almost always BBC comedies or costume dramas– and then watching them all in great, multi-hour marathons. One of this year’s BBC haul was Lark Rise to Candleford, from which my little sister chose this actress to play Letty from Deception of the Emerald Ring:…

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