Archive for January, 2009

Novella Title Contest Extended to Monday!

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Hi, all!
I know, I know. I did say I would post finalists today. May I offer a big fat mea culpa? To give my Board of Advisers time to weigh in on the entries, I’m extending the contest until Monday, at which point– I promise, promise, promise– finalists will be posted and [...]

Night Jasmine Reading Group Guide

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Hi, all!
The inaugural meeting of Night Jasmine Book Club is coming up this Tuesday. By fortunate happenstance, the wonderful folks at Dutton just sent me a Reading Group Guide that contains a whole slew of model questions. I’m rather intrigued by some of their questions– but the important question is, are you? [...]

NIGHT JASMINE is a New York Times Bestseller!!!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

It’s true! It’s true! Thanks to you! (Honestly, I didn’t mean to make that rhyme. It just happened. As Sir Percy Blakeney would say, “You are a poet, and you did not know it!”).
Anyway, thanks to you, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine is #19 on the New York [...]

NIGHT JASMINE a Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Which means that it gets a snazzy little clickable icon at the upper right hand corner of the Fresh Fiction home page.

In other news, the Title That Blasted Novella! Contest is still up and running.
I’ll be accepting title suggestions through Saturday morning, at which point various friends and relatives are [...]

Crimson Rose Book Club: Colin

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Welcome to the last meeting of Crimson Rose Book Club. Next Tuesday, we’ll kick off our discussion of Night Jasmine.

In the meantime, here are today’s opening questions:
Colin’s mood swings– intriguing or annoying?
If you were Eloise’s best friend, what advice would you give her?
If you had to compare Colin to a literary [...]

Title That Blasted Novella! Contest

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Typing out “That Still Untitled Selwick Christmas Novella” several times a day is the manual equivalent of dealing with Peter Piper and his pickled peppers. Amusing the first few times, but….
Since the plan is to post the entire story permanently on the website, to be made available through the Diversions page, it needs a [...]

Selwick Christmas Novella Outtakes

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Brevity has never been one of my virtues. Even in a so-called short story, I found myself producing far more material than I could actually use and wandering down amusing but unnecessary byways. Below are my two favorite deleted scenes from That Still Untitled Christmas Novella.
See you on Monday for the Title That [...]

NIGHT JASMINE Book Club Coming Soon!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Hi, all!
Thanks so much for making the launch of Night Jasmine such a success yesterday! I’m dying to get going on discussing it, but to give everyone time to read it first, the inaugural meeting of Night Jasmine Book Club will be held on Tuesday, February 3rd. Thanks to one of Kayse’s comments [...]

Happy Birthday, NIGHT JASMINE!

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Hi, all!
Thanks so much for all your lovely comments over the past few days. Due to a weird technical glitch, I’ve been having trouble getting in to comment back, so I just want to say a big, universal THANK YOU (and here’s hoping the server has now decided to behave itself and won’t [...]

A Very Selwick Christmas: Epilogue

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

All good things must come to an end– but having epilogues helps one put it off longer.
See you back here tomorrow for give aways and gaiety in honor of the birthday (bookstore day?) of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine!
Without further ado, I give to you the very last installment of That Selwick Christmas Novella….

 

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