Happy birthday to the paperback edition of The Orchid Affair! For those of you who have the hardcover, I’ve attached the Q&A from the paperback. Enjoy!

The Orchid Affair twines very closely to some actual historical events and figures. Here are some musings on Orchid Affair and the intersection of fiction and history that I scribbled for The Muse in the Fog. Only five more days until The Orchid Affair comes out in paperback!

The Orchid Affair comes out in paperback one week from today! In honor of Orchid‘s upcoming paperback publication, here are some Fun Facts about The Orchid Affair. – The Orchid Affair was inspired by a Susan Isaacs novel called Shining Through. Okay, if I’m being honest, it was inspired by the moviebased on the novel [...]

It suddenly dawned on me that fast away the old year passes– which means that we have Pink books coming out in the very near future. First up, we have the trade paperback edition of The Orchid Affair, coming out January 3rd. And then… drum roll!… The Garden Intrigue appears in stores in hardcover on [...]

I just received this hot-off-the-presses advance copy of the paperback edition of The Orchid Affair. Isn’t it gorgeous? Here it is hanging out with the RITA, a pile of UK Mistletoe, some promotional postcards for Jane Austen Made Me Do It that I keep meaning to do something with, the manuscript of the Kenya book, [...]

It’s your last chance to vote in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards! Orchid is up in the Romance category. Voting in the Semifinals ends today….

Orchid Affair is a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards! To help The Orchid Affair make it to the finals, just click here to vote. Thanks so much to everyone who nominated Orchid!

Hot on the heels of the Golden Leaf award, I’ve just discovered that The Orchid Affair has been nominated for RT’s Reviewers Choice Award! Orchid is up in the Historical Romantic Adventure category. It’s been a good autumn for The Orchid Affair….

On Friday night, The Orchid Affair won the Golden Leaf award for best historical romance! (That’s me with my very unleaf-like Leaf, below.) To make it an even better weekend for Orchid, it was also yesterday’s Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick. Huzzah!

With so many books out over the next few months, I keep forgetting what’s happening when. Here’s a little Pink publication refresher for me and for you: – September 27: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, special “Read Pink” edition in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. – October 11: “A Night at [...]