Welcome back to Weekly Reading Round-Up! As the summer approaches, I’m restocking my TBR pile… so keep those suggestions coming. In the meantime, here’s what I’ve been reading this past week. – Wicked Becomes You, Meredith Duran. I was blown away by Meredith Duran’s writing when I picked up her second book, Bound By Your [...]

Due to the recent flooding, RWA is moving its entire conference lock, stock and barrel to Orlando, Florida. This means that there will be no Nashville signing in July, but there will be a Florida one. Here are the details for the Florida signing: When: Wednesday, July 28, 5:30-7:30 Where: The Walt Disney World Swan [...]

… check out this article in Library Journal, which lists books you might enjoy if you like romance and Napoleonic spies (and Pink Carnation!). There are even some non-fiction suggestions for background reading.

Okay, I haven’t run off and joined the Musketeers, but if you come to my reading at Murder by the Book in Houston on November 12th, you’ll get three writers instead of one. I’ll be reading and signing along with two of my favorite authors: Tasha Alexander, who writes the Lady Emily mysteries, and Deanna [...]

Back by popular demand! As we edge into summer beach-reading season, it’s time to start sharing those books recs again. Every Friday, I’ll be posting that week’s reads. Consult your bookshelves, revisit that stack of books next to your couch, and pop back over here this Friday to share your wisdom in the first installment [...]

“‘So Emma,’ said he, ‘you are quite the stranger at home. It must seem odd enough for you to be here. A pretty piece of work your Aunt Turner has made of it! By heaven!… What a blow it must have been upon you! To find yourself, instead of heiress of eight or nine thousand [...]

I can now officially announce that I will be contributing a short story to an Austen-inspired anthology to be published in 2011. The anthology contains contributions from such well known Austenites as Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club), Stephanie Barron (the Jane Austen mysteries) and Elizabeth Aston (Mr. Darcy’s Daughters), among others. I [...]

Happy May! As promised, here’s the first chapter of the next Pink book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, which opens in Bath just before Christmas of 1803. If the name of the heroine sounds familiar, it’s because we very briefly met her in Pink V, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. If the name of [...]