Mr. Jefferson's Birthday Bash– Tonight!
It’s a party and you’re invited! Authors of America’s First Daughter, Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, are hosting an online birthday bash for Thomas Jefferson. There will be games, merriment, historical chit-chat, and, of course, party favors. Allison Pataki, Sarah McCoy, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Lynn Cullen, Erika Robuck, Kate Quinn, Donna Thorland, and I…
Read MoreNew York– Tonight!
If you’re in New York tonight, come join me, Jessica Hagedorn, and Amitava Kumar at Andaz Wall Street at 7:00 for the Pen Parentis literary salon! There will be free food and drink and readings and discussion and general merriment. Here’s the official event description: Pen Parentis Literary Salons include: mingling, networking, wine-drinking, food-noshing, book…
Read MorePinkorama 2016 Round-Up
Hats off to Kayse, Rachel, Candace, Cassandra, and Colleen for this year’s gorgeous Pinkoramas (aka Pink Carnation Peep Dioramas)! They run the gamut from pseudo-medieval books within books to Napoleonic to 1920s to modern. Here, in the order in which they were received, are the Pinkoramas of 2016: 1. The Convent of Peepsino, by Kayse,…
Read MorePinkorama #4: The Unpeepable Truth
I’m so happy that The Other Daughter got a shout-out in this year’s Pinkorama! From Colleen, we have the moment in The Other Daughter when our mild-mannered governess, Rachel, learns that her father isn’t dead and a botanist, but alive and an earl: “It’s the unpeepable truth that her father is alive”. Doesn’t that header…
Read MoreNew York, Las Vegas, Massachusetts– This Month!
I’m going to be flitting hither and yon over the next week or so, so if you’re around, come join the fun! Here are the details: New York, NY Tuesday, April 12, 7:00 Andaz Wall Street 75 Wall Street Come join the Pen Parentis Salon for what has been described in the press as, I…
Read MorePinkorama #3: Eloise & Colin, Happily Peep After…
It’s time for some Happily Peep After (Hapeeply Ever After?) in our third Pinkorama, by Candace and Cassandra! SPOILER ALERT If you haven’t read the later Pink books yet, stop here, or forever hold your Peeps. Or peace. If you have read Pink XII, or don’t mind spoilers, or just like Peep dioramas, scroll on…
Read MoreFALL OF POPPIES Crosses the Pond
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Pinkoramae for this public service announcement: Fall of Poppies debuts in the UK today! On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month… November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers,…
Read MorePinkorama #2: Amy & Richard's Spy School Meets the Phantom Peep
It’s time for a blast from Pinks past: a scene from Pink II, The Masque of the Black Tulip! Rachel writes: My Pinkorama is based on The Masque of the Black Tulip, Chapter 24: Amy and Richard’s Spy School Meets the Phantom Peep! First, the Phantom Peep steals through Richard’s study… With Henrietta hot on…
Read MorePinkorama #1: THE CONVENT OF PEEPSINO
Miss Gwen is having a good gloat. (And no one gloats like Miss Gwen.) Our first Pinkorama of 2016 is her very own Convent of Orsino, brought delightfully to peep by Kayse. Some background: in Pink X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (aka Miss Gwen Explains Everything), each chapter begins with a snippet from…
Read MoreLast Chance to Enter the 6th Annual Pinkorama Contest!
It’s your last chance to enter the 6th Annual Pinkorama contest! Do you have slightly stale Peeps with theatrical tendencies? Have you been itching to render a Pink Carnation scene in sugar form? Now’s your chance! You can find all of the Pinkorama rules and details here. For inspiration, check out the Pinkorama Gallery, here.…
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