Unfortunately, there’s no way I can convey the chocolate eaten at last night’s event along the electronic aether, but, thanks to the miracles of modern technology, I can bring you the event itself. The webcast of the Poisoned Pen event– unedited and uncut– is up on the Poisoned Pen website. You can find it here. [...]

I wrap up the Orchid Tour today with two events in Arizona: a 3:30 tea party at the Tempe Library and a 7:00 reading at the Poisoned Pen (with chocolate!). Come join me in celebrating Orchid, Valentine’s Day, and my last day on the road. If you can’t make it to the events, but you’d [...]

As the Orchid Tour rushes on, you can find me tonight in New Haven at the Yale Bookstore. This one’s an early reading: 6:00.

Despite the best efforts of the snow, I will be reading at the Borders in Bailey’s Crossroads in Virginia tonight at 7:30. Take that, precipitation! If my train gets in on time, I’ll be hanging around the B&N in Union Station from about 4:30 to 5:30 to sign anything you might like me to sign. [...]

We all have our own things we covet. A promotion, a latte, a word of praise from a specific individual. For me, it was Desert Isle Keeper status on All About Romance. After all, what higher praise could a writer crave than being *that* book, the book chosen above all others for tropical exile? Books [...]

Tonight launches… Orchid Week! I’ll be speaking tonight at Lady Jane’s Salon in New York (7:00), tomorrow night at the Bailey’s Crossroads Borders in Virginia (7:30), Wednesday night at the Yale Bookstore in New Haven (6:00), and Thursday at the Tempe Library in Arizona (3:30) and the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale (7:00). For those who [...]

Hello, fellow New Yorkers! Come join us at Madame X on Houston Street for the second anniversary celebration of Lady Jane’s Salon. I’ll be reading from The Orchid Affair (my fourth time reading at Lady J’s!) along with Caridad Ferrar, Courtney Milan, and guest emcee Andrew Shaffer, who will be reading from his historical non-fiction [...]

But no dwarfs. Stop by Songs and Stories for the inside scoop on The Orchid Affair, Pink IX, and why I write what I write.

Over the past few weeks, The Orchid Affair has made it to all sorts of interesting places, like Yellowstone: and Texarkana: and the Death Star: It’s survived extreme cold: and found some adorable new readers: We have pictures ranging from Alaska to Wisconsin– but we’re still missing sixteen states for the Orchid in the Wild [...]

There was a fabulous review of The Orchid Affair in the latest edition of the Historical Novels Review, saying all sorts of nice things about Orchid. Unfortunately, I don’t have a link to link to, but I had to share my favorite line from the review: “Will [Laura and Andre] fall in love? Was Bonaparte [...]