Monday Give Away: MIDNIGHT MANZANILLA
With Halloween on the horizon, what more appropriate for this Monday’s give away than my one and only Halloween book, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla? It’s 1807 and a vampire craze has swept the ton thanks to a novel called The Convent of Orsino— by a Lady. (But who are we kidding? We know…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
There’s been more Galbraith over here! This week, I read the second Cormoran Strike mystery, The Silkworm, in which the detective sets out to track down a missing author, only to find he’s been murdered in the same manner described in the author’s controversial manuscript. Next up, I’m heading over to Paris in the 1920’s…
Read MoreCalling all Catalan speakers!
Among the many, many author copies that I discovered in my move were several copies of The Ashford Affair in Catalan. Do you speak Catalan or know someone who does? If you’d like a Catalan copy of The Ashford Affair, just post in the Comments below or email me at willig@post.harvard.edu.
Read MoreUK Pink Winner!
The winner of the UK editions of the first six Pink Carnation books is… Kristy! (Of Comment #74.) Congrats, Kristy! If you email me at willig@post.harvard.edu and let me know where to send them, I’ll put your books in the mail to you. Thanks so much to everyone for participating! Stay tuned for another give…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Gabrielle Jaouen returns….
Into every stand alone novel, a little Pink must fall. I didn’t really set out to put a Pink Carnation descendant into every stand alone. But, somehow, because my world is such an interwoven one, it always seems to turn out that way. There was Val Vaughn in The Ashford Affair, Nicholas Dorrington in That…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: UK Pink Collection
Just when I think I’ve uncovered the last of the author copies… I opened a box that I’d thought was a care package of books from a friend. It turned out to be another stack of UK Pink books, from the first Pink up through The Mischief of the Mistletoe. There are just enough in…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
After a year of mostly re-reads, I’m making a concerted effort to get back in touch with the wider publishing world. This week? Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, a story about a parent trivia night gone very, very wrong… and everything leading up to the crucial evening. Engaging prose, sympathetic characters, and a complexly constructed…
Read MoreReidiad Winners
The winners of the The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, and The Lure of the Moonflower are…. — Jennifer (of Comment #16). — Steph (of Comment #34). — Georgia (of Comment #48). — Kathleen (of Comment #4). Congrats, all! If you email me at willig@post.harvard.edu, I’ll pop your Reids–…
Read MoreThe FORGOTTEN ROOM Tour
In January, Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and I will be hitting the road to celebrate the launch of The Forgotten Room! You can find all three of us…. 1/19: The Corner Bookstore (New York, NY), 6 PM 1/21: Greenwich Public Library (Greenwich, CT), 7 PM 1/22: Darien Community Center (Darien, CT), 11:30 AM -1:30 PM…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: the Reidiad
When I introduced Alex Reid, way back in Pink VI, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, I initially had no idea that the Reid family would take over the Pink series. Then Alex’s father popped up, around about Chapter Two of Blood Lily, and I knew, instantly, that there was the man for Miss Gwen.…
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