Night Jasmine Book Club!
Welcome to the inaugural meeting of Night Jasmine Book Club. Since The Temptation of the Night Jasmine just made its official public appearance a very short while ago, I will try to keep any questions with potential spoilers in them beneath the fold– and save the really spoiler heavy questions for next month. In the…
Read MoreNovella Title Finalists!
Did you really have to go and come up with quite so many clever titles? Fie, fie! It was nearly impossible to narrow down the more than a hundred entries, and, boy, it hurt eliminating some of those from the final round. In the end, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, my conscripted helpers…
Read MoreRisky Regencies
The gracious ladies of Risky Regencies have been kind enough to host me on their website on this sunny Sunday, where I’ve nattered on about the origin of the Pink series, what I liked about researching Night Jasmine, and sundry other topics. Many thanks to Megan Frampton (ace interviewer and Regency writer extraordinaire) and the…
Read MoreNovella Title Contest Extended to Monday!
Hi, all! I know, I know. I did say I would post finalists today. May I offer a big fat mea culpa? To give my Board of Advisers time to weigh in on the entries, I’m extending the contest until Monday, at which point– I promise, promise, promise– finalists will be posted and the open…
Read MoreNight Jasmine Reading Group Guide
Hi, all! The inaugural meeting of Night Jasmine Book Club is coming up this Tuesday. By fortunate happenstance, the wonderful folks at Dutton just sent me a Reading Group Guide that contains a whole slew of model questions. I’m rather intrigued by some of their questions– but the important question is, are you? Below, you…
Read MoreNIGHT JASMINE is a New York Times Bestseller!!!
It’s true! It’s true! Thanks to you! (Honestly, I didn’t mean to make that rhyme. It just happened. As Sir Percy Blakeney would say, “You are a poet, and you did not know it!”). Anyway, thanks to you, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine is #19 on the New York Times Bestseller List for February…
Read MoreNIGHT JASMINE a Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick!
Which means that it gets a snazzy little clickable icon at the upper right hand corner of the Fresh Fiction home page. In other news, the Title That Blasted Novella! Contest is still up and running. I’ll be accepting title suggestions through Saturday morning, at which point various friends and relatives are going to get…
Read MoreCrimson Rose Book Club: Colin
Welcome to the last meeting of Crimson Rose Book Club. Next Tuesday, we’ll kick off our discussion of Night Jasmine. In the meantime, here are today’s opening questions: Colin’s mood swings– intriguing or annoying? If you were Eloise’s best friend, what advice would you give her? If you had to compare Colin to a literary…
Read MoreTitle That Blasted Novella! Contest
Typing out “That Still Untitled Selwick Christmas Novella” several times a day is the manual equivalent of dealing with Peter Piper and his pickled peppers. Amusing the first few times, but…. Since the plan is to post the entire story permanently on the website, to be made available through the Diversions page, it needs a…
Read MoreSelwick Christmas Novella Outtakes
Brevity has never been one of my virtues. Even in a so-called short story, I found myself producing far more material than I could actually use and wandering down amusing but unnecessary byways. Below are my two favorite deleted scenes from That Still Untitled Christmas Novella. See you on Monday for the Title That Blasted…
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