For those of you in the New York area, please do come join us tonight (Monday, March 1st) at Lady Jane’s Salon as my wonderful co-professor, Cara Elliott, reads from her latest release, To Sin With a Scoundrel.
We’ll be convening at 7:00 at Madame X on 94 West Houston Street. Hope to [...]

Carole just emailed to let me know about her new reader site: K&C’s Booklist. It looks like a great place to share recommendations about books and discuss the ones you might be reading. There’s even a forum section (something I’ve been meaning to add to this site for a while) for book discussion.

A wardrobe malfunction about to happen!

Poor Night Jasmine the Paperback! It keeps getting neglected in the build-up to the release of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. (Considering Penelope’s and Charlotte’s respective characters, that does seem rather par for the course.) Still, it’s only fair that Charlotte should get at least some time in the spotlight as [...]

As the old year draws to a close, I’ve been seeing “best of” lists popping up all over the place. It made me stop and think about what I’ve been reading this year. Some of the books that caught my fancy were new releases, like Gail Carriger’s Soulless or Meredith Duran’s Bound by [...]

My family has a holiday tradition of giving each other movies– almost always BBC comedies or costume dramas– and then watching them all in great, multi-hour marathons. One of this year’s BBC haul was Lark Rise to Candleford, from which my little sister chose this actress to play Letty from Deception of the Emerald [...]

Hi, all!
I was just beginning to pack for the holidays and realized I’d run through most of my traditional seasonally themed reads already.
I tend to read them in subcategories. I have British chick lit Christmas books (Kate Saunder’s “The Marrying Game”, Liz Young’s “Fair Game”, Harriet Evans’ “Going Home”), mysteries [...]

I’ll be posting the Night Jasmine playlist in January, just in time for the release of the paperback. In the meantime, though, we have a very different set of songs for Mary and Vaughn:

… from Miss Eliza! What do you think of her choice for Henrietta? (Who, by the way, once again absolutely swept the character popularity contest, beating out Amy, Letty, Mary, and all the guys.)

For more fun with casting, you can also check out other peoples’ picks on Storycasting.

Sorry! I’m a bit behind today on my posting. It’s been one of those weeks. However, I have read some good books this week, starting with: