I apologize for the delay in announcing the winners of The Deception of the Emerald Ring (UK) and The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. Technological gremlins took over the site for a bit. Fortunately, they seem to have been vanquished (i.e. I was able to log in.) The winners of the British edition of The [...]

Words fail to express how impressed I was by the inventive and eye-catching covers that came my way during the Orchid Affair Cover Contest. To everyone who participated, I thank you for your creativity, your talent, and your time. And now for the part we’ve all been waiting for… the unveiling of the winning covers! [...]

The winners of the Orchid Affair Cover Contest will be announced in just a couple of hours! Winners of the secondary and tertiary prizes (aka Emerald Ring and Night Jasmine) will be announced on Thursday, just because it’s more fun to break it up a bit.

… to put in your votes for the Orchid Affair Cover Contest! You can find all the entries here. Three people who vote will be chosen at random to receive copies of the British edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Two people who tweet, blog, or otherwise spread the word about the contest [...]

Lest we forget the books for the covers, here, after a few weeks’ absence–sorry about that!– is our traditional Weekly Reading Round-Up. As many of you know, I was off at the RWA conference all last week. (These are from the Literacy Signing on Wednesday.) I came back with piles and piles of books, through [...]

There are several people who are owed Orchid Affair ARCs for their fabulous contributions to the Title That Book contest back in the spring. I don’t actually have the ARCs yet (I’m hoping they’ll show up sometime this month), but I just wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about you, Liz, Veronica, [...]

Since the more judges we have, the more objective the Cover Contest voting will be (and because I really need to clear out my closet), I’ll be offering signed copies of the paperback of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine to two people chosen at random from among all those who tweet, blog, Facebook post, [...]

Guess what just arrived in the mail today? Gorgeous, hot-off-the-presses copies of the British edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Emerald Ring makes its official UK debut on 6 September, 2010. In the meantime, the books are too pretty not to share. I’ll be giving away three copies to people chosen at random [...]

As the countdown to The Mischief of the Mistletoe begins, Kirkus Reviews weighs in, calling Mistletoe “a fun, fresh installment in a successful series”, “distinguished by its Austen-like wit and historical accuracy”. Huzzah! Best part of the review? The description of Turnip as a “gentlemanly klutz”. So Turnip! You can find Chapter One of Mistletoe [...]

Thanks so much to everyone for your lovely and lively compositions for the cover of The Orchid Affair. I will confess, I was absolutely staggered by the volume and variety of the entries. If asked to predict, I would have guessed that there would be around ten entries. Instead, at last count, there were seventy-two. [...]