MOONFLOWER Launch– Tonight!
You are cordially invited to join me, Sarah MacLean, and Beatriz Williams tonight at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn to celebrate the launch of the final Pink Carnation book, The Lure of the Moonflower. There will be books. There will be booze. There will be all the flowers. (At least, on my dress. And, presumably, on…
Read MoreOut and About
I’ve been out and about on the internet today! You can find me: — over at USA Today, talking about the various influences that went into writing the Pink books (ahem, Blackadder, ahem); — at Jungle Red Writers, musing about the end of the Pink series and series in general; — at Fresh Fiction, discussing…
Read MorePink XII is Here!
Today is the day! The final Pink book, The Lure of the Moonflower, is in stores. I still can’t quite entirely believe we’re up to Jane’s story. Someone pinch me, please? I’ll be celebrating the release of The Lure of the Moonflower this Thursday, August 6, at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn, with two of my…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday– on Monday
Usually, a few months before the book comes out, I post a Colin and Eloise excerpt on Teaser Tuesday. This time around, I couldn’t. Not because the chapter wasn’t there yet. (It was.) The reason I couldn’t share it with you was because the very first line of that very first chapter contained a major…
Read MoreTHE LURE OF THE MOONFLOWER– Tomorrow!
The twelfth and final Pink book comes out tomorrow! All the feels, all the feels. I started the first Pink Carnation book fourteen years ago, in the spring of 2001, at my rickety desk in a tumbledown house in Somerville that I shared with three other grad students. I took that manuscript with me (on…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up, Ask the Author, and Podcasts, Oh My!
There’s a lot going on right now. You can find me (or, at least, my disembodied voice) over on Smart B*tches Trashy Books today, having a lengthy conversation with the ever fabulous Sarah Wendell about The Other Daughter, the 1920s, shell shock, character construction, Napoleon Bonaparte’s reading habits, The Lure of the Moonflower, Judith McNaught,…
Read MoreNPR's Top 100 Romances
It’s not an easy task whittling the vast field of romance down to one hundred titles– but the specialists over at NPR have done an amazing job of picking some of the stand-outs in the field. Reading this list is like a trip along my bookshelves: M.M. Kaye, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, Susanna Kearsley, Judith…
Read MoreBehind the Scenes with THE OTHER DAUGHTER
They say it takes a thief to catch a thief. (Or was that just Cary Grant?) I don’t know that it takes an author to interview an author, but some of the best interview questions I’ve ever had came from M.J. Rose, author of The Witch of Painted Sorrows, who interviewed me recently for Bookmovement.…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: the Pink Novella That Wasn't
The last time we saw Jane Wooliston, aka The Pink Carnation, was in Pink X, aka The Passion of the Plumeria, as she declared her intention to go deep undercover– alone. That was back in the spring of 1805. Pink XII, aka The Lure of the Moonflower, opens in December of 1807. That’s a pretty…
Read MoreYou Know You're a 1920's Party Girl in London When….
I had way too much fun assembling this list of the ins and outs of the 1920s party girl life for Heroes and Heartbreakers. So many thanks to everyone on my Facebook page who contributed to the discussion! This is my first “gif” list– so I hope you like it. Since we seem to have…
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