Much as I love the Eloise and Colin scene, it’s Joanne’s historical drawings that are really the piece de resistance. Without further ado… the Tuileries scene! The final Pink comic scene will be posted on Monday. On Tuesday, in celebration of the publication day of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, check back for [...]

With only one week to go until Pink mass market (eek!), here’s Big Surprise #2. I’ve been having the hardest time staying quiet about this one for the past few months! In honor of the re-release of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, I’ve teamed up with illustrator extraordinaire, Joanne Renaud, to render a [...]

I know, I know, I said that the Pink Top Ten List Challenge was closing on Sunday night, along with the T-shirt contest. But since the mini-contest was overshadowed by the Mini-Contest (and a couple of people emailed me to tell me they hadn’t seen it in time), I’m leaving up the Pink Top Ten [...]

In anticipation of the re-release of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation next month, I’ve been going through my personal Pink Carnation archives. Among the drafts and the outtakes and the Q&A’s, I stumbled upon a document I hadn’t thought about in years and years– the bio my publisher asked me to write right [...]

The reviews are coming in for the new edition of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation– and they really couldn’t be lovelier. “This fantastic story offers a snapshot of history that is sexy, fun, intriguing and, more than anything, undeniably swashbuckling,” opines Quill Book Reviews. The review goes on to call The Secret History [...]

As I was torturing myself at the gym the other day, surreptitiously squinting at the lettering on the T-shirt of the person in front of me, it suddenly occurred to me: the series has no clothes! Correction: the series has no T-shirt. With the publication of mass market Pink fast approaching, this seems like a [...]

In which I discuss The Secret History of the Pink Carnation then versus now, my coffee consumption habits, and the Chair of Death. You can find the interview here. This interview was really supposed to have gone up on October 5th– hence the line about Pink mass market coming out today! Just ignore that bit.

A long, long time ago, in a Pink Carnation novel far, far away, Lord Richard Selwick challenged our heroine’s iron-steeled chaperone, Miss Gwendolyn Meadows, to write a horrid novel, a la The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho. Never one to pass up a challenge, Miss Gwen took up the gauntlet– for the [...]

An early, early copy of the mass market Secret History of the Pink Carnation arrived for me last night, courtesy of my lovely paperback editor. Here it is, in situ on my desk (with an ARC of Mistletoe behind it): Only a month and a day until Publication Day!

Happy September, all! Stay tuned for Secret History of the Pink Carnation trivia and contests coming up as we celebrate a Month of Pink…. In honor of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation‘s imminent mass market debut– and to give us something with which to dance in the new month– voila the one, the [...]