Monday Give Away: ACCORDING TO A SOURCE
As we get ready for beach read season, here’s something fun and frothy for your beach bag: Abby Stern’s According to a Source, a Hollywood insider’s novel about a gossip columnist whose life and work begin to collide. Here’s the official blurb: Ella Warren loves her job working for celebrity news magazine, The Life, as…
Read MoreSISTERS OF ALMEDA STREET Winner
With all the Pinkorama excitement, I forgot to announce the winner of this week’s Monday Give Away! The winner of my ARC of The Sisters of Alameda Street is… … Connie Lee! Congratulations, Connie! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll put your book in the mail to you. Stay tuned for…
Read MoreThe 2017 Pinkorama Round-Up
In the order in which I received them, I bring you… the 2017 Pinkoramae! 1) That Summer, by Randy. Fresh off the plane from New York, Julia encounters a mysterious portrait in the house she inherited in a London suburb. Who is that mysterious peep in the portrait? Click here for a full description and…
Read MorePinkorama #5: POET PEEP
For our fifth Pinkorama, Candace and Cassandra bring us… “Oh no! It’s a highway-peep…oh wait it’s worse it’s a poet-peep!” Yes, you guessed it: the one, the only Augustus Whittlesby. And now over to Candace and Cassandra, who write: In this scene from The Garden Intrigue, we visualize a moment detailed from the correspondence from…
Read MorePinkorama #4: THE PASSION OF THE PURPLE PEEPMARIA
For our fourth Pinkorama, Terrie brings us… The Passion of the Purple Peepmaria Or My Life As a Lizard, by Miss Gwendolyn Meadows. It’s spring of 1805. After a close encounter with the Naughty Hellfire Club in the Roman ruins beneath Bath, Miss Gwendolyn Meadows and Colonel Reid share a heated moment in a theatre…
Read MorePinkorama #3: THE EAGLE PEEPS ONLY ONCE
For our third Pinkorama, Laura and Carrie present to us… Rossio Square: The Eagle Peeps Only Once, or, Love at First Peep. It’s the final book of the Pink Carnation series, The Lure of the Moonflower. Or, to get us in scene, it’s Lisbon, 1807. The Portuguese royal family has fled to Brazil just moments…
Read MorePinkorama #2: THE ASHPEEP AFFAIR
It’s 1926 and a train is chugging its way into the station in Nairobi. For our second Pinkorama, Carla brings us… The Ashpeep Affair. In this scene, Addie has just traveled from England to Kenya to visit her cousin Bea, and, after coming all that way, she’s not quite sure she actually wants to be…
Read MorePinkorama #1: THAT SUMMER
Or perhaps Peep Summer? For our very first 2017 Pinkorama, Randy brings us a scene from That Summer. It’s the summer of 2009, and Julia, jobless thanks to the recession, has just flown out to London to inspect the house she unexpectedly inherited from a great-aunt she can’t remember. The house holds many surprises for…
Read MoreLast Call for Pinkoramae!
I’ll be accepting submissions for the 7th Annual Pink Carnation Peep Diorama Contest up through midnight tonight! So if you have a last minute Peep inspiration, now’s your chance. You can find the contest description and rules here. The really fun part starts tomorrow! I’ll post each Pinkorama in the order in which I received…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: THE SISTERS OF ALAMEDA STREET
Happy first of May! One of the aspects of historical fiction I love best is getting to experience a place and culture I might never have encountered. In the case of The Sisters of Alameda Street, Ecuador in the 1960s. Here’s the official blurb: A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and…
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