It’s a rainy Tuesday and I needed a boost– so, instead of our regularly scheduled Teaser Tuesday, you’re getting A Few of My Favorite Things. I’m not talking the big things, like birthdays or book launches, but the little things, the small indulgences that can make a grey day seem less grim. Here are a [...]

Only two more days to submit your entries to win an advance copy of The Garden Intrigue! You can find the rules here.

With so many books out over the next few months, I keep forgetting what’s happening when. Here’s a little Pink publication refresher for me and for you: – September 27: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, special “Read Pink” edition in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. – October 11: “A Night at [...]

Thanks so much to everyone for all the Garden Intrigue contest ideas! I only wish I had more ARCs to give away, now that I have so many creative ways to do it. We will quite definitely be having a second contest in which there will be poetry involved. (Given Augustus, how could there not [...]

There’s rather a lot going on in my world right now, so, instead of the normal Teaser Tuesday, here’s a hodgepodge of recent and upcoming happenings. I’ve just been sent the new UK cover for The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Mistletoe appears in stores over there on 28 November. (We’ll be getting our own paperback [...]

If you like The Betrayal of the Blood Lily for its Indian setting, you’ll probably also like…. – Sharpe’s Triumph and Sharpe’s Fortress, set in 1803, at Assaye and at Gawilghur; – Thalassa Ali’s A Singular Hostage, set in the 1830s; – M.M. Kaye’s Shadow of the Moon and The Far Pavilions, one set during, [...]

Among this week’s haul, I’ve read: – Rhys Bowen, Royal Flush The third in the lighthearted, 1930′s-set Lady Georgiana series. – Elspeth Huxley, Murder on Safari Not quite as M.M. Kaye as I’d hoped, but very eye-opening in terms of the mechanics of big game hunting in the 1930s. – Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood I [...]

There’s something of a book pile-up on my kitchen table right now. Not only are there ten copies of the book version of Ivy & Intrigue, just waiting to find a good home, but a surprise package arrived yesterday, containing ARCs (advance review copies) of The Garden Intrigue. What to do? I need an equitable [...]

Way back in March and April, some of you canny folks noticed that my Weekly Reading Round-Ups were leaning heavily towards the 1920s, with a high proportion of non-fiction in among the novels. The official announcement came out in Publishers Weekly yesterday, so I’m finally at liberty to say…. You guessed right. I’ve been writing [...]

I’m having the hardest time remembering what I’ve read this week, since it’s been all over the map. But here’s a selection: – Barbara Michaels, Witch. This used to be one of my favorite Barbara Michaels novels when I was a teenager. Somehow, between college and real life, my ancient copy was misplaced. It only [...]