Trimmings & Fancy Goods
Did you ever have those children’s books with illustrations of a beribboned girl opening a mailbox to find happy surprises within? They were always semi-Victorian in nature, sometimes with a few sheep grazing in the background. Well, I have no sheep; for ribbons, replace with sunglasses; and my mailbox is of the metal sort set…
Read MoreWriterspace Beach Party
Hi, all! Break out your inner Gidget. This coming Sunday (July 20th) from eight o’clock until eleven o’clock Eastern time, Writerspace will be holding a virtual beach party with oodles of authors, all popping by to chat online and give away prizes. It would take way too long to list them all (for oodles, read…
Read MoreA Sneak Preview of THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE
Hi, all! I hope everyone had a glorious 4th of July weekend, complete with barbecue, sparklers and all the trappings. Two hundred years and an ocean away from July sunshine and backyard barbecues, it’s Christmas Eve in 1803, where Lady Charlotte Lansdowne shivers on the frost-bleached marble steps of Girdings House as an unexpected addition…
Read MoreRelease Dates for Pink IV and V!
Lo, the Great Amazon hath spoken. According to amazon.com (which is usually pretty reliable when it comes to these things), the paperback version of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose will be available on January 6th, while the hardcover of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine will be released just two weeks later, on January…
Read MoreFrom the Mixed-Up Files of THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE
Hi, all! As part of an attempt to avoid dealing with several cranky camels in Book VI, I was rooting around in my Book V files looking for the deleted scene where Charlotte waxes nostalgic about her childhood parrot (as you can imagine, the parrot and the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale did not enjoy a…
Read MoreBring Out the Flying Monkeys
Hi, all! Sorry to have disappeared for a few days. I’ve been off in Cloud-Cuckooland with Book VI. For whatever reason, the first fews chapters of a new book are always the hardest for me, probably because I’m still getting to know the characters, their modes of speech, their motivations. At least, that’s my excuse…
Read MoreWeekend Reading
Hello, my bibliophilic friends! Since I’m rather preoccupied with Book VI right now (and for preoccupied, read mildly obsessive), I don’t have much of a reading list for this weekend, but I did happen stumble upon Julia Quinn’s new release, The Lost Duke of Wyndham, as I was grocery shopping today. Since it never does…
Read MoreIntroducing THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE
In other words, Pink V has a cover! Covers are always a game of roulette– we’ve all heard the horror story about the three armed maiden on one of Christina Dodd’s early covers– but I’ve been exceptionally lucky with mine so far. No mullets, no bulging thews, no women busting out of their bodices, no…
Read MoreGreetings from Cloud-Cuckooland
Courtesy of my new favorite quotation, from Dorothy Sayers’ Gaudy Night: “[H]owever realistic the background, the novelist’s only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offense in the world.” Indeed! The comment is made in the context of apologizing for having arranged various bits of the historical record to…
Read MoreInquiring Minds
Right now, I’m supposed to be writing a Q&A with myself for the back of the paperback edition of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (due out in January of ’09!). The fundamental problem with this exercise is that I already know the answer to any question I might think to ask myself. This somewhat…
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