As I was tidying some of the debris in my apartment recently, I made a fabulous discovery: I still have five ARCs of The Mischief of the Mistletoe! Naturally, the Mistletoe joy must be shared, so, starting tomorrow, I’ll be running a Mistletoe contest every Tuesday.
Check back tomorrow for the first of the contests….
Happy Labor Day!
An early, early copy of the mass market Secret History of the Pink Carnation arrived for me last night, courtesy of my lovely paperback editor.
Here it is, in situ on my desk (with an ARC of Mistletoe behind it):
Only a month and a day until Publication Day!
I’m afraid I don’t have a proper round-up this week (blah, blah, Pink IX, blah, blah), but I do have a new favorite author I’ve just discovered. And by discovered, I mean my ever-brilliant college roommate Claudia put the books in a box and mailed them to me, with a large note saying, “Read these!”
Have I mentioned that Claudia is always right?
The books are Point of Honour and Petty Treason by Madeleine E. Robins. The author describes them as “hardboiled Regencies”. They remind me a great deal of my beloved Kate Ross Regency mysteries, both in content and style, with the difference that in the Robins books, our sleuth is a lady, albeit a fallen one. Highly recommended!
What have you been reading?
Several people have been asking me recently about the fate of Tommy Fluellen, Robert’s best friend from The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. I can’t give you any major news on that front (I’m still working it out), but Tommy did have a brief look-in in The Mischief of the Mistletoe– until he got cut for length reasons.
Oh, well, at least he’s in good company. Sir Percy Blakeney, Baronet, was cut from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation for similar reasons.
In the meantime, here’s Tommy’s brief appearance from The Mischief of the Mistletoe:
Happy September, all! Stay tuned for Secret History of the Pink Carnation trivia and contests coming up as we celebrate a Month of Pink….
In honor of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation’s imminent mass market debut– and to give us something with which to dance in the new month– voila the one, the only, the original Pink Carnation Playlist.
If you ordered a Mischief of the Mistletoe audio CD, you’ve probably received a cancellation notice by now. This is because, although Mistletoe is being recorded (read by the wonderful Kate Reading!), the audio version is only being made available via download, rather than actual, physical CD.
This only affects Mistletoe. The Orchid Affair, also read by Kate Reading, will be available for purchase on CD just like all the earlier books.
My apologies for any inconvenience!
Many apologies for the internet silence recently…. There’s been a lot of off-line writing going on.
In the meantime, save the date for a New York reading of The Mischief of the Mistletoe on December 6th! I’ll be reading at Lady Jane’s Salon, along with Hope Tarr and Jacquie D’Alessandro.
Other tour locations for Mistletoe include Ann Arbor, Houston, Dallas, and Chicago (see the sidebar for details). Boston info coming soon!
As someone who grew up believing that the Beatles’ Paperback Writer was a vocational theme song, I’m counting down the days until The Secret History of the Pink Carnation makes its mass market paperback debut.
Today? After a long stretch of “no image available”, Amazon just posted the new paperback cover of Pink I.
It’s up on B&N and Borders, too. I know it sounds silly, but having the image up there makes it so much more real to me.
Only one month and fourteen days until Pink goes mass market!
After that last minute excursion to the bookstore last week, here’s what wound up in the book pile:
I had never heard of the site Polyvore before, but the talented Tara just sent me a link to her Pink Carnation-inspired collage:
Pretty, no?
