Since today is Georgette Heyer’s 109th birthday, it seemed a good time to share some of the ways in which Heyer has influenced the Pink books. I’ll confess: I was not initially a fan of Heyer. I picked up my first Heyer back in sixth grade, primarily because there was a quote from Judith McNaught [...]

If you like Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, you’ll probably also like…. – Into the Wilderness, by Sara Donati (no time travel, but Claire shows up as part of an interwoven world); – Island of the Swans, by Ciji Ware; – Through a Glass Darkly, by Karleen Koen (again, no time travel, but a very lush, eighteenth [...]

This has been an exceptionally good reading week. Here are my latest finds: – Meredith Duran, A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal I loved this book. As someone who cried over A Little Princess as a small child, I loved this tale of an Edwardian guttersnipe who finds out that she was stolen from her real [...]

From Germany, Jenna sent me these adorable photos of marzipan pigs for Eloise. (If you’ve read Orchid Affair, you know the story.) How cute is that? In other news, if you head over to History Hoydens, you can find a post on the strange alchemy by which contemporary fiction transmutes itself into a historical artifact. [...]

Between August 29th and February 16th, we have Pink-mania, Pink, Pink and more Pink, as far as the bookshelf can stretch. Here’s the Pink publication schedule for the next few months: – August 29: The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, UK edition. – September 27: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, special “Read Pink” [...]

It’s National Book Week! What’s the 5th sentence on page 56 of the book you’re reading right now?

As announced last week, I’ll be exhuming my old law school satire, Two L, from the vault of lost novels later this month. Basically, Two L is Measure for Measure meets Evelyn Waugh meets Legally Blonde meets too much free coffee my 3L year. I debated long and hard about putting it out there because, [...]

If you like L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle, you’ll probably also like: – Colleen McCullough’s The Ladies of Missalonghi, which is basically The Blue Castle with a twist; – Robin McKinley’s Beauty, with its reclusive hero and heroine just learning to come into her own; – Eva Ibbotson’s A Company of Swans, where the heroine [...]

As some of you know, around the same time I was writing The Deception of the Emerald Ring, in the winter of 2005/6, I was also writing something else, a satire set at Harvard Law, based on the plot of Measure for Measure. I called it Two L. Two L enjoyed a limited circulation among [...]

This week has been a hodge-podge of old and new. I finally got around to Donna Andrews’ The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (for those who haven’t read the series, start with Murder With Peacocks), picked up Mary Balogh’s A Secret Affair (note to self: next time start with Book 1 in the series, not [...]