My redoubtable web mistress has just made a number of additions to the website. In addition to the Printable Book List and the Recommended Reading Order, you can now find a Pink Cheat Sheet on the Books page, listing the who, what, where and when of each book. Because, let’s face it, once you get [...]

There are a whole bunch of new books I’ve been wanting to read (Meredith Duran’s A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal, Loretta Chase’s Silk is For Seduction, Tana French’s Faithful Place), but I’m saving them to use as bribery later in the summer, so, instead, I’ve been back to some old comfort reads. – Donna Andrews, [...]

While pulling up my old Ivy & Intrigue files the other day, I stumbled across a file I’d forgotten: the Ivy & Intrigue outtakes. For a hundred page novella, it yielded a surprising number of outtakes. Here, for your amusement, are the cream of the crop.

Among the amusing bits of this and that making their way around the internet today, we have the winners of this year’s Bulwar-Lytton Contest. My favorite? The historical fiction entry, of course: Napoleon’s ship tossed and turned as the emperor, listening while his generals squabbled as they always did, splashed the tepid waters in his [...]

Anyone who says self-pub is easy is clearly more technologically adept than I am. Having just spent most of yesterday afternoon wrestling with Amazon and B&N’s self-publication systems, I have both good news and bad news. The good news is that Ivy and Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas is available for download on Amazon and [...]

Yesterday’s walk down Mistletoe memory lane got me thinking about another Fitzhugh who needs a story. That’s right: Turnip’s little sister Sally. Because we all know, if Turnip has a story, Sally wants one, too. Preferably gold-plated, enameled, and decorated with a cunning little pattern of seed pearls. And, yes, she’ll take the matching earrings [...]

He’s baaaaacck! Today, on Smart Bitches, you can find the full, unexpergated (and did I mention free?) Amorous Addendum to The Mischief of the Mistletoe, “Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night”. Thanks to the magical talents of SB Sarah, Turnip’s missing scene is available as a PDF download, in ePub format (for [...]

What with the sultry summer heat, I’ve been on a huge Gothic/romantic suspense kick. So here’s this week’s “If You Like”. If you like Mary Stewart, you’ll probably also like…. – M.M. Kaye’s Death In series, in particular Death in the Andamans and Death in Kashmir; – Susanna Kearsley’s The Shadowy Horses or Season of [...]

Can’t wait until tomorrow? Want a little dose of Turnip right now? To tide you over those extra few hours, here’s the first page of Turnip’s amorous addendum, “Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night”.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Amorous Addendum to The Mischief of the Mistletoe, “Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night”, will be posted tomorrow (Monday) on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. I’ve tried to come up with a scene worthy of Joyce’s lovely cover. Given Turnip’s proclivity to prolixity (translation: [...]