If you’re in New Jersey, stop by the Renaissance Woodbridge in Iselin between 4:00 and 5:30, where about seventy authors will be signing (including me) as part of NJRW’s Literacy Book Fair. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Literacy Volunteers of America– so come and help spread the love of reading! What: Signing [...]

I’ve been reading The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson (yep, the same one who wrote the Mapp & Lucia novels– who knew?). They are excellent. They remind me a lot of one of my old favorites,

May I just say again how much I loved these contest entries? Forget Augustus, the Pink Carnation should have put all of you on the payroll. In fact, I loved them so much that, as Queen of this site, I arrived at an arbitrary decision: everyone who entered deserves a prize. Unfortunately, I don’t have [...]

There is a lot of roaming around in my future. Mistletoe comes out in paperback on November 1 and The Garden Intrigue makes its debut on February 16th. I’ll be taking to the road for both of these. For Mistletoe, you can find me in NYC (with Tasha Alexander and Deanna Raybourn!) on November 1; [...]

If you like ghost stories, you’ll probably like…. – those old Hitchcock-branded anthologies of classic ghost stories, like Haunted Houseful, Ghostly Gallery, Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense, and so on (anyone else remember those?); – The Uninvited, possibly my favorite haunted house movie (Cornwall, cliff, ghost– how can you go wrong?); – pretty much [...]

It seems a bit late to change the rules for this contest, but, in the future, we’ll be adhering to a strict “if you vote, you must vote for three items” rule. The reason for this? To try to make sure that those who vote look at all the entries and give everyone a fair [...]

On my pile for this weekend? Jane Austen Made Me Do It! I’m very excited to finally have the chance to read all the other stories. Previously read this week: – Jennifer Crusie, Don’t Look Down. I’ve been hoarding this one for a while, saving it for a rainy day. Cruisie’s snappy humor and delightfully [...]

Huge thanks to everyone who rushed to Augustus’ assistance in crafting a verse or two! Gentle reader, you have a veritable garden of verse awaiting you, ranging from odes to limericks to haiku (in Japanese! sadly, I couldn’t get the kanji into the post, so we have it in translation). As you can imagine, Augustus [...]

Jane Austen Made Me Do It, an Austen-inspired short story anthology, arrives in stores today! In honor of the JAMMDI release, I’ve posted some Q&A I did for the JAMMDI “extra” portions below. Q. How did Jane Austen make you do it? What inspired you to join this anthology? Really, Laurel Ann Nattress made me [...]

In honor of the release of Jane Austen Made Me Do It tomorrow, I decree this a special Jane Austen-themed “if you like”. If you like modernizations of Austen stories, you’ll probably like: – Melissa Nathan’s Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field and Persuading Annie; – the movie, Clueless (aka Emma in LA); – Shannon Hale’s [...]