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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Pink Carnation Contest on Smart Bitches!

Smart Bitches Trashy Books, one of my absolute favorite sites on the web (i.e. where I waste most of my time when I’m supposed to be writing) is hosting a contest today in honor of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine’s hitting the New York Times Bestseller list. The rules? Come up with the most…

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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…

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Novella 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…

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Risky 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…

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Novella 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…

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