Happy New Year!
Happy 2016, everybody! Here’s wishing you all a year filled with love, joy, and all good things. To start off the “all good things” bit, I have a couple of prizes to announce. The winners of the Happy New Year 2016 Mystery Bundle Give Away– chosen by random number generator– are: — Christine (of Comment…
Read MoreYearly Reading Round-Up 2015
There are many things this list isn’t. It’s not a “best of” list. And it’s certainly not comprehensive. It’s an off the top of my head list of some of the books that stuck with me from this past year, many of which were published in other years– in some cases, many years ago– but…
Read MoreMystery Bundle Time!
A few weeks ago, I did an impromptu give away of “mystery” bundles of books on my Facebook page. Because what can be more fun than getting a surprise package? This was such a hit that some bright soul (ahem, Aileen, ahem) suggested that I do a mystery bundle give away to celebrate the New…
Read MoreIvy & Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away (okay, so it was 2008– but it feels like a galaxy far, far away), I decided it would be fun to write a novella as a holiday gift to my readers. So I did. I posted the novella in serial form on the website, chapter by chapter,…
Read MoreThat one last gift….
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is always that one last minute gift you haven’t quite found yet…. How about a copy of The Forgotten Room? If you pre-order today or tomorrow, Fox Tale Book Shoppe will send a snazzy card to the recipient telling her that a signed copy of The Forgotten…
Read MoreTHE MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE: The "Lost" Introduction
It’s that time of year again: time for the annual posting of the Lost Intro to The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Why “lost”, you say? I’d like to claim that Turnip misplaced it somewhere between his carnation-embroidered handkerchiefs and his private stash of Christmas puddings. But that would be unfair to Turnip (and Arabella complained).…
Read MoreName That Root Vegetable Winners
Talk about making spirits bright! Reading through the entries for the Name That Root Vegetable Contest brought joy to the computer screen and all that, don’t you know. Thanks so much to everyone for your incredibly Turnip-spirited suggestions for the Fitzhugh brood, ranging from Pudding to Peppermint. The best part? The thumbnail sketches of their…
Read MoreName those root vegetables! Or: A Very Mistletoe Contest
It just dawned on me that this is an anniversary of sorts for The Mischief of the Mistletoe. As much as it boggles my brain to think of it, it’s been a whole five years since The Mischief of the Mistletoe first appeared on shelves in the winter of 2010. That’s five whole years of…
Read MoreFORGOTTEN ROOM Give Away!
There’s a copy of The Forgotten Room up for grabs over on the three Ws’ Facebook page right now! Recently, Beatriz, Karen and I got together for tea to plot our next book together. There were scones, tea sandwiches, and, of course, tea. So, for a chance to win an advance copy of The Forgotten…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ve been immersed in research books this week for the New Revised Stand Alone, so there hasn’t been as much time as I’d like for fiction, but what I did read was a win: Trisha Ashley’s A Winter’s Tale, about a down on her luck single mom who unexpectedly inherits the no longer quite so…
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