Hi, all! Just a reminder that there’s less than a week left for the latest Contest. Winners will receive an advance copy (in a pretty PDF package!) of the first three chapters of the next Pink book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, starring Turnip Fitzhugh and Arabella Dempsey, with special guest appearances by one Miss [...]

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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s ALA award, here’s an excellent review for The Temptation of the Night Jasmine from Fresh Fiction.

Today, the American Library Association came out with their short list for the “outstanding genre literature” of 2010. Here’s the description, straight from the ALA website: “The Reading List annually recognizes the best books in eight genres: adrenaline (which includes suspense, thriller, and adventure), fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, and women’s fiction.” [...]

Many of you have noticed that there is, in fact, no Blood Lily in Blood Lily. There’s a Marigold, a Moonflower, even the odd bit of frangipani, but not a single blood lily, of either the floral or pseudonymous variety. I’d like to claim that there’s some deep metaphysical reason for this. But there isn’t. [...]

A fabulous review of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (with some great illustrations) from Merrimon Book Reviews.

The other day, I chatted about books and writing with Stephanie Giancola of the Romance Novel Examiner. Click here for Part I of the interview.

Please do join me tomorrow (Monday the 18th) on the Barnes & Noble Book Club board to discuss The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. The Book Club board will be open all week, and I’ll be popping in and out to answer questions, participate in the discussion, and procrastinate from working on Pink VII. Looking [...]

Yesterday, Cara Elliott and I conducted a class on Austen’s Northanger Abbey as part of the seminar on the Regency Romance Novel we’re teaching together this spring. Re-reading the book in preparation for the class reminded me of how many of my favorite lines are crammed into that one little book. You have Austen on [...]

You know that whole thing about giving away the first two chapters of The Mischief of the Mistletoe to a selection of people who correctly answer the Contest question? Well, my incredibly generous publisher is upping the ante. They’re agreed to release even more Mistletoe: winners will receive the first three chapters. And they’ve made [...]