Read A Romance Month Holiday Extravaganza
Over on Facebook, the Read A Romance Month page is holding a holiday give away extravaganza, with a different package of books up for grabs every day. Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and I are joining in the fun over there by offering up three copies of The Forgotten Room plus one copy each of our…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
My find for this week? Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, brought to you courtesy of a wet day, a conveniently located bookstore, and ten minutes to kill before school pick-up. Set in Singapore, New York, London, and Paris, it’s a deftly written social satire focusing on Singapore’s old money set– which, like old money sets…
Read MoreMISTLETOE Winner
The winner of the signed copy of The Mischief of the Mistletoe is… … Heather! (Of Comment #4.) Congrats, Heather! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. More fun coming up soon!
Read MoreMonday Give Away: MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE!
Happy December! In honor of the season, today’s give away will be… a signed copy of The Mischief of the Mistletoe! Here’s the official blurb: Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Coming Next
I don’t have exact dates yet, but here’s the rough schedule for my upcoming book releases: — July, 2017: a personal essay in A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light, a non-fiction anthology about Paris, edited by the lovely Eleanor Brown. — January, 2018: THE ENGLISH WIFE, hardcover. —…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Thanksgiving! (Or really, Happy Black Friday!) I was in an epic mood this week, so I revisited a very old favorite: Joan Wolf’s Born of the Sun, about a sixth century Saxon king of Wessex and his British wife, Niniane. There are court intrigues, family strife, battles– and, of course, a wonderful love story,…
Read MoreTHE CHILDREN Winner
The winner of Ann Leary’s The Children is… … Maria! (Of Comment #14.) Congrats, Maria! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll put your book in the mail to you. Wishing everyone a wonderful, safe, happy Thanksgiving!
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: A Paris All Your Own!
If you can’t go to Paris, Paris will be coming to you this summer, in the anthology A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light. I’m so thrilled to get to revisit one of my favorite cities in such wonderful company! Here is the tres snazzy cover: Et voila! The…
Read MoreMonday Give Away
There’s been a bit of a give away gap– apologies! To make it up to you, I have a particularly good one for you today: a hardcover copy of Ann Leary’s The Children. Here’s the official blurb: From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, in between working on the outline for the new Team W book with Beatriz Williams and Karen White, I treated myself to two new books: Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Sherry Thomas’s A Study In Scarlet Women. Although very different, both are takes on earlier stories: Uprooted builds off previous generations of fairy tales…
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