I'm on TV at Barnes & Nobles!

Barnes & Nobles has a great new feature called Tagged where they pick favorite books and interview authors. I had a ridiculous amount of fun at the interview– which partly accounts for my constantly forgetting that I was supposed to be, er, looking at the camera instead of just chatting with super-entertaining Tagged host Molly…

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New York Reading and Signing

Hi, all! If you’re in the Manhattan area on March 2nd, please do stop by Madame X for the second ever meeting of Lady Jane’s Salon (wonderful name, no?) where I’ll be reading from and signing The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. Lady Jane’s is a new group that features readings from two romance novelists…

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If you liked the Bastille, you'll love…

… the other great prisons of the French Revolution, about which I posted today on History Hoydens. It does seem unfair that the Bastille gets all the attention, when there are so many lovely dungeons to be had.

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Night Jasmine Book Club: Charlotte

Given the long weekend, I’d nearly forgotten that this was a Tuesday! I still mean to chime in about Penelope, but it’s well past time to move on to our patiently waiting Charlotte, who is, after all, the heroine.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day, all! I hope you’re wallowing in lace-edged Valentines and heart-shaped boxes full of gooey chocolaty substances. Earlier this week, in honor of Valentine’s Day, my little sister’s debate society postponed their usual policy debate in favor of a poetry reading. I thought that was an excellent idea, so I’ve decided to, er,…

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Winners up on SBTB!

The winners of the title contest have been posted on Smart Bitches Trashy Books! There were so many hysterically clever options that it was nearly impossible to choose. Grand Prize Winner: Elizabeth Wadsworth, The Sheep in the Phlox Runners-Up: Charmaine Ong, Daring Deeds of the Devious Daffodil Midknyt, The Alliteration of the Asian Alocasia amazonica…

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Night Jasmine Book Club: Penelope

Okay, I had meant to talk about Charlotte this week. It is her book, after all. But I have no discipline. I’m dying to know what you thought of Penelope, and I didn’t want to wait another week to ask. Charlotte, being a patient sort, will have no problem waiting until next week to be…

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This Just In: Untitled Novella Finds Title!

…Hard working novelist no longer has to suffer finger strain from typing out That Still Untitled Selwick Christmas novella every few days. The winner, by a very large margin, was Ivy & Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas. Congrats, Megan!! From now unto the ends of the earth, the Selwick Christmas Novella shall be known as…

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