The beloved voice of the Pink characters, Kate Reading, will be joining us again for the audio versions of The Mischief of the Mistletoe and The Orchid Affair. Huzzah!

Hi, all! Sorry for the weekly reading hiatus last week. I was, in the truest sense of the term, getting my beach reading in. Since I was staying at a place with a book swap shelf (I love book swaps), it’s a rather long and varied list. Among the books I read were:

A lovely, lovely review of the first Pink Carnation book from Jessica Pope at the Allentown Examiner.

Thanks so much to everyone for sharing your favorite heroes! Many of my own favorites got a mention in there. What would the world be without Darcy and Rhett? Although I doubt anyone would want to seat them at the same dinner table. But I digress. We have winners! Two winners, in fact. The recipients [...]

As you may have noticed, I’m really very fond of the hero of the next book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe. I hadn’t expected to be. Turnip isn’t your typical hero. He rambles; he blunders; he trips over protruding surfaces and his own tongue. He’s Bertie Wooster with a dash of d’Artagnan. But there’s no [...]

It’s less than a month now until the Poisoned Pen conference in Arizona! Running from June 24th-26th, the conference– which is free and open to the public– features workshops, readings and signings with authors ranging from Diana Gabaldon to Jacqueline Winspear. (And me). There’s even a Georgette Heyer tea party. For the full schedule and [...]

Since I’m a bit disorganized this morning, this will be less of a round-up and more of a ramble. Having been on a mystery kick for a while, I’ve swung back around to historical romance. I’m just finishing up Julia Quinn’s latest, Ten Things I Love About You. Next up? Laura Lee Guhrke’s Secret Desires [...]

Hi, all! I’ll be posting the next Mini-Contest for an advance copy of The Mischief of the Mistletoe on Tuesday, June 8th. In the meantime, you can find the first chapter here and the second chapter here.

This just in. I’ll be having two events in the Chicago area in November to celebrate the launch of Turnip’s book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe: November 15, 7:00 Wheaton, IL Borders 101 Rice Lake Square November 16, 6:00 Chicago, IL Newberry Library Bookstore 60 West Walton Street Since I’ll be there a couple of [...]

Happy June! In celebration of summer, I present to you the second chapter of The Mischief of the Mistletoe (coming to a bookstore near you on October 28th!). In Chapter One (available here), we met our heroine, Miss Arabella Dempsey, ignoring the sage advice of her old family friend, Miss Jane Austen. Chapter Two brings [...]