There has been a minor– a very minor– change in schedule regarding the Dallas reading on The Mischief of the Mistletoe tour. Rather than taking place on Saturday, November 13th, it will now be on Sunday, November 14th. All other details remain the same. Dallas, TX Reading & Signing: November 14, 2:00 Lincoln Park B&N [...]

Hi, all! Just a reminder that now is your last chance to enter Mini-Contest #1, plotting Miss Gwen’s much-anticipated Gothic novel. I’ve been chortling away over the current entries. Oh, Miss Gwen, who knew? While we’re talking about the Gothic, I stumbled upon this post, written for the Access Romance All-a-Blog back in 2006: Where, [...]

In which I discuss The Secret History of the Pink Carnation then versus now, my coffee consumption habits, and the Chair of Death. You can find the interview here. This interview was really supposed to have gone up on October 5th– hence the line about Pink mass market coming out today! Just ignore that bit.

As the weather gets cooler and the smell of pumpkin spice begins to permeate my Starbucks, I find myself turning back to mystery novels and ghost stories, in particular my collection of Barbara Michaels novels: The House of Many Shadows, Someone in the House, Here I Stay, and Stitches in Time. If only Miss Gwen’s [...]

Publishers Weekly calls The Mischief of the Mistletoe “delightful” and “exciting”, commenting, “Guest appearances by… Jane Austen and characters from previous installments of the series round out the laugh-out-loud holiday-themed romance of intrigue. Readers familiar with the series will relish this newest installment and rejoice that Turnip has finally been given his due and a [...]

I’ve just discovered that there is a Pink Carnation group on Goodreads. (Thanks, Dawn!) It’s called “Flowery Friends”. How cool is that? Although we do have the News page here on the website, we have no site message board for you to introduce your own threads and topics. If you’ve been looking for a place [...]

The cover of The Mischief of the Mistletoe has undergone a minor tweaking. Points to anyone who can figure out what’s been changed….

Oooops! What with the long weekend and all, I missed the UK release day of The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Emerald Ring made its official UK debut yesterday, 6 September. Happy belated birthday, Emerald Ring! (It’s no secret that this is one of my very favorite covers.)

A long, long time ago, in a Pink Carnation novel far, far away, Lord Richard Selwick challenged our heroine’s iron-steeled chaperone, Miss Gwendolyn Meadows, to write a horrid novel, a la The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho. Never one to pass up a challenge, Miss Gwen took up the gauntlet– for the [...]

As I was tidying some of the debris in my apartment recently, I made a fabulous discovery: I still have five ARCs of The Mischief of the Mistletoe! Naturally, the Mistletoe joy must be shared, so, starting tomorrow, I’ll be running a Mistletoe contest every Tuesday. Check back tomorrow for the first of the contests…. [...]