… from the Serendipitous Reader. The review includes a video clip from last year’s reading at Lady Jane’s Salon, which I’ve re-pasted here below. Although it’s a bit of a side note to the rest of the story, this is my favorite snippet from The Temptation of the Night Jasmine: the ice cream flavor discussion.

Jennifer Rummel of Teens Read Too gives The Temptation of the Night Jasmine five stars, declaring, “The fifth book in the PINK CARNATION series flirts with more danger, more suspense, more secrets, more romance, and a whole lot of fun!” Thanks, Jennifer!

An amazing review just came in from Night Owl Reviews for The Temptation of the Night Jasmine. (Now available in paperback!). Danya of Night Owl Reviews writes: “Weaving a modern day love story, with hints of Bridget Jones, with a classic love story, a la Jane Austen, each entry in Lauren Willig’s series continue to [...]

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s ALA award, here’s an excellent review for The Temptation of the Night Jasmine from Fresh Fiction.

Today, the American Library Association came out with their short list for the “outstanding genre literature” of 2010. Here’s the description, straight from the ALA website: “The Reading List annually recognizes the best books in eight genres: adrenaline (which includes suspense, thriller, and adventure), fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, and women’s fiction.” [...]

Happy Friday! THE BETRAYAL OF THE BLOOD LILY comes out next week!!!!!! Okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system…. Below, I’ve posted what is probably my favorite out-take from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. It hurt to cut this scene. Without giving too much away, I can tell you that Robert [...]

Only five days until The Betrayal of the Blood Lily!! Blood Lily features the third in a triumvirate of three very different friends, Henrietta (The Masque of the Black Tulip), Charlotte (The Temptation of the Night Jasmine) and Penelope. If one had to type them in a broad-brush way, Henrietta is the one who holds [...]

Thank you all for your amazing actor suggestions for Robert! As your answers came in, I spent way too much time yesterday on IMDB, going “Ahhhhh….” (and occasionally, “Oooh!”). Since there’s really no way to pick among the Roberts (unless they’d all like to come audition for us? Pretty please?), the winner, chosen at random, [...]

Six days to go until The Betrayal of the Blood Lily…. But while we’re still talking about The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (which came out in paperback yesterday! yay!), the fabulous Miss Eliza has posted her dreamcasting choice for Night Jasmine‘s hero on her website, Strange and Random Happenstance. (You can check out choices [...]

And the winner of mini-contest #1 is… Lauren! The other Lauren, that is. The one who isn’t me. In terms of postage, it would be terribly convenient giving the book to myself, but it would defeat the purpose of clearing out my closet. Lauren, if you email me with your snail mail address, I’ll send [...]