Pinkorama #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.…
Read MoreDABWAHA!
It sounds like evil laughter, doesn’t it? Dabwahahahahah…. Which is not so far from the mark. The DABWAHA is an annual novel face-off determined by reader votes. Right now, The Other Daughter is locked in battle with Susanna Kearsley’s A Desperate Fortune. Voting is open at the DABWAHA site from now until midnight!
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve had a really remarkable run of good books. Hopefully, saying that won’t jinx it! This week, I took a chance on a few new (well, new to me) books: — Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Where has this book been all my life? I was a little surprised to find it set in…
Read MorePutting the "Her" back in History….
… over at Women’s History Month on the RAR website! I’m so grateful to Bobbi Dumas for giving me the chance to orate from my internet soapbox on a topic that means so much to me: giving women in history the credit they deserve, from the monarchs who defeated Armadas (yes, Elizabeth I, I’m looking…
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