Black Tulip Book Club Tonight!
Is everyone as excited as I am for the Month II Zoom of the Pink Carnation Read Along tonight, featuring The Masque of the Black Tulip and special guest host Tasha Alexander? We’re going to be an intimate group of about three hundred tonight! If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so here. There’s…
Read MoreCelebrating the last week of Women’s History Month!
It’s the last week of Women’s History Month– and also the last full week of Band of Sisters tour! Please do come join me this week for a series of events with wonderful fellow historical fiction authors as we talk all things women and history. — On Tuesday night, I’ll be chatting away with Kate…
Read MoreGinger Biscuits: Both Traditional and Passover Edition!
The Masque of the Black Tulip Read Along meeting is coming up this very Thursday, which means… ginger biscuits! I went digging through my recipe folder, trying to find the ginger biscuit recipe, the one I baked back in the day, that I munched as I wrote The Masque of the Black Tulip. All I…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! After an exciting week of bouncing around the internet, talking about Band of Sisters, I’m reading… The Masque of the Black Tulip. I know, it feels a little silly to admit to reading my own book! And I don’t, as a general rule. But for various reasons I needed to re-read the…
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Welcome the to 11th Annual Pinkorama! This year makes eleven– ELEVEN!– years of Pinkorama (aka Pink Carnation Peep Diorama). Over a decade of sugary wonders created by you. Thank you to everyone who so enthusiastically grabbed your Peeps and your cardboard boxes that first year and to all of you who have kept this going…
Read MoreA Special Vassar Event!
Hello to all my Vassar friends! In conjunction with the Vassar Club of Hudson Valley and Split Rock Books (an amazing bookstore owned by a Vassar alumna!), I’m going to be giving a special talk about Band of Sisters— and their compatriots, the women of the Vassar College Relief Unit, who served in France through…
Read MoreOut and About Around the Zoomiverse!
I’ve been very remiss in posting this week’s events! — Come join me tonight (Tuesday) at Avon Free Public Library at 7pm EST for a discussion of Band of Sisters. The event is free and open to anyone anywhere. Just click here to register. — Find me on Wednesday night at 6pm EST at Erlanger…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! It’s been another jam-packed week of Band of Sisters book events for me, some going late into the night, so I’ve been back to vintage mysteries, because they’re so easy to pick up and put down at odd moments. I gobbled up Charlotte MacLeod’s Janet Rhys and Sarah Kelling series growing up,…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS Tour– four new events!
Happy Monday, all! As the book tour like no other book tour continues, I have a whole new crop of free, virtual events coming up this week! — Tonight! Monday, March 15, 8pm: Literature Lovers’ Night Out with Kate Quinn (The Alice Network) & Elizabeth Wetmore (Valentine). Literature Lovers’ Night Out is a legendary book…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! Don’t you love it when you hoard a new book and when you finally decide to break it out, it turns out to be just the right book at the right time? I loved Louise Miller’s The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, so I’ve been hanging on to her second book,…
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