I was amazed and amused to hear that there’s already a cast for The Orchid Affair up on Storycasting, even though the book won’t be on shelves until January.
For those curious, you can find the first chapter (and the relevant characters) of The Orchid Affair here and the current Storycasting line-up

Words fail to express how impressed I was by the inventive and eye-catching covers that came my way during the Orchid Affair Cover Contest. To everyone who participated, I thank you for your creativity, your talent, and your time.
And now for the part we’ve all been waiting for… the unveiling of the [...]

The winners of the Orchid Affair Cover Contest will be announced in just a couple of hours!
Winners of the secondary and tertiary prizes (aka Emerald Ring and Night Jasmine) will be announced on Thursday, just because it’s more fun to break it up a bit.

… to put in your votes for the Orchid Affair Cover Contest!
You can find all the entries here.
Three people who vote will be chosen at random to receive copies of the British edition of The Deception of the Emerald Ring.

Two people who tweet, blog, or otherwise spread the word about the contest will receive copies [...]

There are several people who are owed Orchid Affair ARCs for their fabulous contributions to the Title That Book contest back in the spring.
I don’t actually have the ARCs yet (I’m hoping they’ll show up sometime this month), but I just wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about you, Liz, [...]

Thanks so much to everyone for your lovely and lively compositions for the cover of The Orchid Affair. I will confess, I was absolutely staggered by the volume and variety of the entries. If asked to predict, I would have guessed that there would be around ten entries. Instead, at [...]

Due to a far, far larger number of entries than expected, it may take me a little longer than previously anticipated to get those contest covers up here on the site for general voting. Stay tuned! I should have them up by tonight or tomorrow morning.

Just one day to go until the Cover Contest closes! With so many entries (over fifty at last count), I will, for once, be closing the contest when I said I would, at midnight on Sunday. So get your entries in now!
In the meantime, here’s a bright and floral cover for Saturday:

Don’t you get the feeling that this is a woman with weighty things on her mind?

Just as a reminder, the Cover Contest officially closes Sunday at midnight, so if you have any last minute inspirations, now’s the time to get out the photoshop….

A pretty and pastoral cover for Thursday….