Bring 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…
Read MoreWeekend Reading
Now that I’ve gotten over my Elizabeth George kick, I can finally dig into that pile of books my amazing college roommate gave me last week. There have also been a few shopping indiscretions since last I posted (also known as Why I Should Not Be Allowed into Bookstores). Despite the fact that I now…
Read MoreCasting Call for Lord Vaughn
Despite the fact that he has no flowery title to call his own, Lord Vaughn has proved one of the most elusive of my heroes– at least in the looks department. Ironically, I’ve probably described him in more detail than any of my other heroes (when you’ve hung around for three books, you tend to…
Read MoreWeekend Reading
Are you a re-reader? Every so often, despite the presence of new books just begging to be read, I go on re-reading kicks. Sometimes, these are seasonal, even if the books themselves have nothing to do with a particular season (Barbara Michaels’ Ammie Come Home and Here I Stay are autumn books for me, while…
Read MoreTasha Alexander on History Hoydens!
Hello, my fellow procrastinators! I’d like to invite you over to History Hoydens, where one of my favorite authors, Tasha Alexander, kindly consented to take over my blog for the day. Tasha is an author of many talents. (And I’m not just saying this because she relieved me of having to do my post for…
Read MoreWhile I'm having fun with covers…
… here’s a real Pink Carnation artifact: the Lost Cover of Pink I. Doesn’t that have a nice ring to it? Having a lost anything imparts such a lovely air of antiquity and myth-making, like the lost city of Atlantis or the lost subway stations hidden among the tunnels beneath the city of New York.…
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