The very first review of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine is in. According to Publishers Weekly, Night Jasmine is “an elegant and grandly entertaining book”. Huzzah! For those who are interested, you can read the full text of the review here (just scroll down a bit– Night Jasmine is the ninth book down). They [...]

The winner of the Pink Carnation popularity contest is… Second Runner Up (shocker!): Lord Vaughn, hero of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose. First Runner Up: Letty Alsworthy, heroine of The Deception of the Emerald Ring. And the Winner: Lady Henrietta Selwick, heroine of The Masque of the Black Tulip. Can’t you just hear Henrietta [...]

Little did Lord Richard Selwick realize when he set out to attain fame and glory that, one day, he would become… yarn. A friend of mine just passed on this link from Etsy. It was too, too cool not to share. The Purple Gentian now has his very own shade of merino wool. Isn’t it [...]

over at History Hoydens, where I’m rambling on about the more ridiculous bits of history. You can sort of see where that mindset comes to play in the Pink Carnation books…. For reasons of space, I left out one of my favorite moments of historical slapstick: Napoleon’s wedding night, in which the future master of [...]

Hi, all! For those who are interested (i.e. looking for ways to procrastinate), there is a Q&A up on Good Books, Bright Side, in which I opine on such important topics of the day as which fictional hero I would most like to date and what sort of series I might write once the Pink [...]

First of all, a HUGE thank you to everyone who took the time to put in a vote for your favorite Pink Carnation character. I haven’t tallied the votes yet, but I was touched to see that even the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale got a shout-out. And Turnip Fitzhugh has a small but exceedingly vehement [...]