This week, I did something I never, ever do. I re-read one of my own books. I don’t usually like reading my own work once it’s in proper book form. There’s too high a likelihood I’ll stumble across words I should have changed or paragraphs I should have chucked. But I had promised to write [...]

It’s your last chance to submit your entry in the Name That Bonus Chapter contest! (Okay, not the catchiest contest name– but now do you see why I need help coming up with the title?) You can find all the rules, regulations, and random commentary here. Just submit your entry in the Comments box in [...]

Given Miles’ and Hen’s landslide victory in the Holiday Bonus Chapter Contest, this seemed like a good time to explore Black Tulip read-alikes. If you like Henrietta and Miles, you’ll probably also like…. – Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me. Hen and Kate would get along like a house on fire. Ditto for Quinn’s [...]

I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed reading through the contest entries. There were some rather interesting candidates, like Vaughn’s mother. (She’s still lording it over that family pile up north.) The Uppingtons had a considerable fan base, as did that undauntable octogenarian, the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale. In the end, though, the winners [...]

An homage to The Masque of the Black Tulip! From Shenandoah, we have the dramatic capture of the Marquise de Montpeep. Lord Vaughn is the blue peep in the silver cravat. Turnip is styling a pink cravat (probably with carnations on it), while Miles and Henrietta are the yellow peeps exchanging soulful glances. The Marquise [...]

Like the White Rabbit, I’m late, I’m late. Apologies! Blame it on the rain (or, more accurately, the flu). Thanks so much to everyone for the quotations for the Masque of the Black Tulip page in the Pink Carnation Quotation Compendium. The winner of the Black Tulip mug, chosen entirely at random, is… Beth G. [...]

The Pink Quotation Compendium continues! This week, I’m collecting quotes from The Masque of the Black Tulip. What are your favorite Black Tulip lines? As a thank you, one person will be chosen at random to receive a Black Tulip mug.

With five days to go until the New Year, let’s go back to 2006 and The Masque of the Black Tulip. I had a really, really hard time picking a favorite passage from this book. There’s just so much about Black Tulip that amuses me, from Turnip Fitzhugh’s appearance as a giant carnation to Geoff’s [...]

Most of my books have retained the same cover as they moved from hardcover to paperback. Two– The Masque of the Black Tulip and The Betrayal of the Blood Lily– have undergone dramatic transformations. For fun, here are the before and after pictures: The Masque of the Black Tulip (2005, 2006): The Betrayal of the [...]

The Masque of the Black Tulip is just popping up all over the place these days! Being reviewed in AAR, on the old cover of The Mischief of the Mistletoe… and now as a staff recommendation in the Barnes & Nobles in St. George, Utah. Thanks to the staff members at B&N and to Natalie [...]