Hi, all! Only one month and five days to go until the release of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily! In honor of that benchmark, here, as promised, is the first Eloise and Colin chapter of Betrayal of the Blood Lily (otherwise known as the Prologue):

Check out Miss Eliza’s blog, where she makes a very convincing argument for casting Felicity Jones (Catherine Morland in the recent BBC adaptation of Northanger Abbey) as Amy Balcourt.

I’ve been deep in Pink VII, so this will be a somewhat scanter list than usual. Here’s what I’ve read this week:

Happy December! Just one more month to go until Blood Lily.
In the meantime, to help beguile the time, we have… the Two Minute Regency! I don’t know who wrote it, but it is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. It’s even more amusing since I’m currently working on [...]

As we struggle out of our turkey comas, here’s the Emerald Ring playlist to get you up and dancing– or running off to Ireland with a group of spies in knee breeches. Take your pick.

For the best French Revolutionary spoof since Blackadder’s Pimpernel skit, check out this cartoon on Hark! A Vagrant.

Since I’m not fit for much except sprawling on a couch today anyway, it seemed a good time to catalog books. This week’s reads have been:

Between traveling and everything else, I’m having a very hard time remembering what I read two or three days ago.

For those Jane-ites in New York or passing through, the Morgan Library has an excellent exhibit up right now on Jane Austen

I love Halloween. I tend to live in other centuries in my head most of the time, but only once a year do I get to model them as a fashion statement.