Pinkorama #1: “The Passion of the Peeple Plumeria”
I am delighted to present the 2019 Pinkoramae! The first of this year’s amazing Peep creations comes from the sister team of Laura Parker and Carrie Morrell, who are proud to present The Passion of the Peeple Plumeria, or, Billiard Balls on Cue, from Pink Carnation Book X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. In this…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
You know how it is, when you recommend a book to a friend and then just have to re-read it yourself? Well, that was me this week. My best friend was looking for something like Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series or Laura Resnick’s Esther Diamond: smart and snarky and supernatural. And it belatedly occurred…
Read MorePinkorama Deadline Extended to Sunday
Do you have Peeps and an empty weekend? There’s still a chance to enter this year’s Pinkorama! Since it belatedly dawned on me that I will be at a book festival all weekend, and thus unable to put up pictures of Peep creations on the website, I’m extending the deadline to midnight on Sunday. You…
Read MoreHere’s a bit of THE SUMMER COUNTRY….
One of the hardest parts of authordom is waiting the months and months (and sometimes years) to share what you’ve written. Which is why I’m so excited to share with you the first two chapters of my upcoming book, The Summer Country! You can find the first two chapters, beautifully formatted by my publisher, here.…
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To whoever recommended Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions companions to me, I don’t know whether to thank you or glower at you. (Freya, that was you, wasn’t it?) I gobbled up The Silent Companions in one night, which seemed like a good idea at the time, because the idea of waiting another day to find…
Read MoreProvidence, RI– Saturday, 4/27
I’m so delighted to be part of the first ever Providence Book Festival next Saturday, April 27th! There’s a jam-packed schedule of author events and talks, featuring everything from the illustrator of the Paddington Bear books to authors dishing on which books/poetry by other people they wish they’d written. From 1:15 to 2:00, I’ll be…
Read MoreTHE SUMMER COUNTRY Tour!
Mark your calendars for The Summer Country Tour! I’ll be trotting around from place to place this summer to celebrate the release of The Summer Country (and doing some Skype-Ins to book clubs! There’s a sweepstakes going right now where you can win copies for your book club and an author Skype-In). This list is…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve finally begun reading through some of the books that have been on my TBR forever. First it was Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill, a mystery set in 1920s Bombay. Now I’m reading Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown, which my college roommate sent me in a care package lo these many moons…
Read MoreSUMMER COUNTRY Book Club Sweepstakes
Do you have a book club? Do you know someone who does? My wonderful publisher is giving away eight (8!) copies each of The Summer Country to three book clubs– plus an author Skype-in! Here are the official contest rules: We’re giving three lucky book clubs the chance to each win eight copies of The Summer…
Read MoreTHE SUMMER COUNTRY Pre-Order Bonus
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve teamed up with FoxTale Book Shoppe in Georgia to bring you the following pre-order bonus. When you pre-order your copy of The Summer Country from FoxTale, you’ll also receive one of these snazzy palm tree bookmarks! Karen Schwettman of FoxTale says, “living with these characters on Barbados was de…
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