As we ramble down memory lane with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, I have a secret to share.

Okay, I will confess, I didn’t do an actual count. But, using the very subjective “hey, didn’t I just read this?” method, the phrase that seemed to come up most as I read through the comments was:

As you can see, I really like this whole “fifth line” thing…. Lines that make perfect sense in context become wonderfully ridiculous out of it.
So here’s the question for today: Of all of yesterday’s fifth lines, which was your favorite and why?
(You can find the list of lines here.)
In honor of Pink Carnation’s impending [...]

Hi, all! The winners of yesterday’s mini-contest, chosen at random, are….

It’s time to celebrate five years of Pink Carnation! Yes, for almost five years the Pink Carnation has been foiling those dastardly French plots. Napoleon never had it so bad.

In honor of Pink’s fifth birthday on February 7th, I’m holding a five day countdown, with a mini-contest every day. Winners of the [...]

Believe it or not, February 7th marks the anniversary of five years of flowery spies. The first of the Pink books, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, made its official debut on February 7th, 2005. Since then, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation has spawned five sequels (with three more in [...]

Alex’s sisters are… Kat and Lizzy. We’ll be seeing Lizzy in the next book, The Mischief of the Mistletoe, where she plays a peripheral but not insignificant role.
The twenty-five winners of the preview of The Mischief of the Mistletoe are listed below. Those whose names are listed here will receive a pdf of [...]

… to be announced later today. Stay tuned!

Hi, all! Just a reminder that the current website contest closes this coming Tuesday, January 26th. So get your answers in now!
In the meantime, elsewhere on the web, The Reader is having a contest for a (now out of print) hardcover copy of the book that started it all, The Secret History of [...]

The line in question–
“No, darling, I don’t mind in the least that you’ve quite ruined my prospects. I always wanted to be made a laughingstock in front of the ton.”
– comes from page 56, line 5 of the paperback edition of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, as part of Mary Alsworthy’s internal monologue. [...]