Weekly Reading Round-Up
It’s Valentine’s Day AND President’s Day weekend all in one! Which hopefully doesn’t mean we need to read romances about past presidents. That would be just a little too weird. In the spirit of the season, though, I did read an excellent romance novel this week: Meredith Duran’s Luck Be a Lady, about a prim…
Read MoreBLACK TULIP: Ten Years Later….
Here it is, our second Black Tulip Anniversary Month contest! It’s been ten years in real time since The Masque of the Black Tulip was first published, but it got me thinking. When we left Henrietta and Miles in Black Tulip, it was summer of 1803 and they were both in their early twenties. What…
Read MoreMost Fun Book Tour: the Video
Throughout the Forgotten Room book tour, we joked that our trip would make a hilarious mockumentary (although it felt a bit more like The Blair Witch Project than This Is Spinal Tap on some of those early morning wake-ups). In any event, a friend of Karen’s decided to take us up on it! Voila a…
Read MoreCookie Contest Winner!
Miles is trying to persuade Cook to make ALL the cookies, so while he’s otherwise occupied (and Hen is busy gloating over STILL being everyone’s favorite heroine), I’m here to tell you that the winner of the first of the Black Tulip Anniversary Month Contests is… Alexandra! (Of Comment #138) Congrats, Alexandra! If you email…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Between the new book (coming summer 2017!), the continuing Forgotten Room buzz, and some books I’m not allowed to talk about because I’m judging them for a contest, it’s been a bit of a slim reading list this week– but I did manage to carve out the time to read Bill Bryson’s latest, The Road…
Read MoreIllinois on Saturday! (2/6)
This Saturday, I’ll be returning to one of my favorite libraries to speak on a panel with three amazing authors: Sonali Dev, Simone Elkeles and Marilyn Brant. We’ll be discussing Love Across Ages and Cultures— and we’d love to have you join us! Come find us this Saturday, 2/6, at 2:00 at the Warren-Newport Public…
Read MoreIn Which We Have a Rather Scrumptious Sort of Contest….
Look what I found when I moved earlier this year? Two original ARCs of The Masque of the Black Tulip! But they looked rather lonely by themselves, so I decided to pair them with a few friends: the section of the Pink series I tend to think of as “Henrietta and Co”, Pink III up…
Read MoreHappy Anniversary, BLACK TULIP!
In all of the Forgotten Room excitement, I completely missed Miles’s and Henrietta’s tenth anniversary! It’s been ten years now since The Masque of the Black Tulip, the second book in the Pink Carnation series, appeared in print. Over the course of those ten years, Miles and Henrietta have won every single popularity contest ever…
Read MoreNew York Reading– Tonight!
The official Forgotten Room book tour may have come to an end, but I’ll be reading from The Forgotten Room tonight, at Lady Jane’s Salon, New York’s only romance reading series. Here’s the official Lady Jane’s announcement: Join us Monday, February 1st, 7-9:00 PM at Madame X (NYC’s “sexiest bar”; loft level) as we celebrate…
Read MoreFORGOTTEN ROOM is a New York Times Bestseller!
Karen, Beatriz, and I were celebrating last night, because… we got the news that The Forgotten Room debuted on the New York Times bestseller list! Thank you so much to everyone who helped put The Forgotten Room on the New York Times list. We are beyond thrilled. We’re still on the road for the next…
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