For those of you who like seeing the downstairs as well as the upstairs, check out Tracy Grant’s interesting post on servant/master relationships in historical fiction. For me, the first to come to mind are Jeeves and Wooster and Bunter and Lord Peter Wimsey. It struck me that both are (a) 1920s and 30s, and [...]

Do you ever go through book or television fads? Ones that you feel rather silly about but can’t stop reading/watching anyway? My latest is a British TV show called Doc Martin. No, nothing to do with the iconic 90s footwear. It’s about a doctor in a small Cornish town. What I find fascinating about this [...]

Happy almost December! As we edge ever closer to the holiday season, I bring you a very special Pink contest, a contest so special we’re doing it on the Contest page instead of the News page. As my gift to you this year, I’m giving you an entirely new Pink Carnation bonus chapter– and the [...]

Christmas came early for me. Ivy & Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas is #1 on Amazon’s Regency bestseller list! Thanks so much to everyone who put it there!

Today is the official launch day of the UK version of The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Happy launch day, Mistletoe UK! Mistletoe UK is available in both traditional paper-y form (as seen above) and on Kindle.

If you like lighthearted Regency romances, you’ll probably like…. – Julia Quinn’s novels. I know people swear by the Bridgertons (start with The Duke and I), but don’t neglect the pre-Bridgerton Everything and the Moon and To Catch an Heiress. To Catch an Heiress was one of the inspirations for the original Pink book. – [...]

What with the food coma factor, I’m having a hard time remembering what I read yesterday, much less earlier in the week, but here’s an attempted recreation…. – Lori Wilde, The First Love Cookie Club I was given this at RWA this summer, but it was July and this book looked decidedly Christmassy, so I [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, all! Here’s hoping everyone has a wonderful, turkey-filled holiday. Now back to The March of the Wooden Soldiers….

For me, most holidays have some association with books. Christmas is Little Women and Debbie Macomber’s Angel books; Halloween is The Haunting of Hill House and assorted ghost stories; even the Fourth of July has Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside (I’m not sure why I’m reading about Canada on the Fourth of July, but [...]

Remember that old Contest page where I used to have contests? The one that was abandoned for the convenience of holding contests right here on the News page? Well, I’m reviving it for a very special holiday contest. Starting at some point next week (I’ll let you know once it’s up), I’ll be opening the [...]