Today marks five whole years of floral escapades. When The Secret History of the Pink Carnation made its debut on February 7, 2005, I never thought that five years down the road Pink would have expanded to such a bouquet of books.

Hi, all! Due to some internet access issues, I’ll be posting the winners of both mini-contest #4 and #5 tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, along with the winning Rogue titles. Sorry about the delay!

While we’re on Pink Carnation fun facts, here’s one of my favorites: Pink began life with a completely different sort of cover.

As the Pink Carnation birthday countdown continues…. Today’s contest follows logically off yesterday’s: of all those clever Rogue titles, which one is your favorite? Five people will be selected at random to receive an advance excerpt of The Mischief of the Mistletoe– as will the authors of the top three Rogue titles.

I’m still laughing over The Reluctant Rogue’s Rustic Bride! Do you think she’ll take the Rogue to Mandalay? Or just go On the Rogue Again? Today’s winners, chosen at random, are….

In all the Pink I birthday excitement, poor Blood Lily has been getting rather short shrift. Not so on the part of the Historical Novels Review. In their latest issue, they write, “Willig masterfully captures India and its allure at the beginning of the 19th century.” Huzzah! Thank you, HNR!

As we ramble down memory lane with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, I have a secret to share.

Okay, I will confess, I didn’t do an actual count. But, using the very subjective “hey, didn’t I just read this?” method, the phrase that seemed to come up most as I read through the comments was:

As you can see, I really like this whole “fifth line” thing…. Lines that make perfect sense in context become wonderfully ridiculous out of it. So here’s the question for today: Of all of yesterday’s fifth lines, which was your favorite and why? (You can find the list of lines here.) In honor of Pink [...]

Hi, all! The winners of yesterday’s mini-contest, chosen at random, are….