Only one more day until BLOOD LILY!!! Check out Word Wenches for an all new Q&A about the writing of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, India in 1804, and just about everything else. It seems particularly appropriate to be appearing on Word Wenches today of all days because today is the day that Cara [...]

A wardrobe malfunction about to happen!

Only two days left to go until BLOOD LILY!!!!!! Since this whole “pick your own adventure thing” seemed to work rather well yesterday, let’s do it again today. Tomorrow, in honor of Blood Lily‘s imminent release, I’ll be posting a short excerpt from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. What would you most like to [...]

It’s official. Lord Vaughn won by a landslide. His partisans outnumbered those of the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale two to one. One imagines the Duchess will have something to say about that…. In the meantime, our randomly chosen winner, recipient of the UK Black Tulip, is… Natasha! Natasha, if you email me your info, I’ll [...]

Jessica just totally made my weekend with this picture from the Champaign Borders: No one expects the Pink Invasion….

Only three days left until BLOOD LILY!!!!! I found it incredibly amusing that the first answer to yesterday’s contest concerned a conjunction of Lord Vaughn and Turnip Fitzhugh, while the second involved Turnip and the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. Because, in fact, both of those occur in Turnip’s book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe (coming [...]

Many fictional characters are making indignant noises just about now, seething about the indignities to which they’ve been subjected in the last mini-contest. There were some genius pairings– I, for one, would love to see Lord Vaughn attempt to deal with Amelia Peabody or the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale unleashed on Lady Catherine de Bourgh. [...]

Happy Friday! THE BETRAYAL OF THE BLOOD LILY comes out next week!!!!!! Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system…. Below, I’ve posted what is probably my favorite out-take from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. It hurt to cut this scene. Without giving too much away, I can tell you that Robert [...]

Thanks, all, for weighing in on the Henrietta/Charlotte/Penelope trichotomy! For once, it looks like Henrietta got a run for her money. And, as some of you pointed out, it wasn’t quite fair to Penelope, since we don’t know her as well yet. At least, not until next week! (Evil laughter here.) Our randomly chosen winner [...]

It has been borne in on me recently that my closet is very full. Full of books. (Nothing bears this in on one like an avalanche of hardcovers hurtling towards your head as you try to conduct the simple action of extracting a coat from a hanger.) In particular, I have ten extra copies of [...]