As someone who grew up believing that the Beatles’ Paperback Writer was a vocational theme song, I’m counting down the days until The Secret History of the Pink Carnation makes its mass market paperback debut. Today? After a long stretch of “no image available”, Amazon just posted the new paperback cover of Pink I. It’s [...]

I had never heard of the site Polyvore before, but the talented Tara just sent me a link to her Pink Carnation-inspired collage: Pretty, no?

A lovely, lovely review of the first Pink Carnation book from Jessica Pope at the Allentown Examiner.

Happy Memorial Day, all! I hope you’re all having a splendid time out in the sunshine, enjoying the official start of the summer season. While we’re celebrating, the winners of this week’s mini-contest, for signed cover flats of the new mass market edition of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation are… Tami and Brianna! [...]

With four books coming out this year, even I keep getting confused. Here’s a quick look at the Pinks in the pipeline: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (mass market paperback): October 5, 2010 The Mischief of the Mistletoe (hardcover): October 28, 2010 The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (trade paperback): January 4, 2011 [...]

Courtesy of my paperback publisher, I have two beautiful cover flats of the upcoming mass market edition of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (coming out October 5th!). So here’s the question: Of all the book covers (in any genre and by any author) that you’ve seen recently, which most caught your eye and [...]

YA writer Abby Stevens is giving away a signed copy of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation on her website, The Tabby Catt. The contest closes next Monday, May 31. You can find the rules and the entry form on her site, here.

While we’re having fun with foreign covers, here’s a completely new one… Pink Carnation in Turkish! You can order the Turkish edition here.

… check out this article in Library Journal, which lists books you might enjoy if you like romance and Napoleonic spies (and Pink Carnation!). There are even some non-fiction suggestions for background reading.

No one seems to know quite what to do with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. Over the course of its relatively short life span, it’s been packaged as chick lit, as historical fiction, as suspense, and as romance– sometimes by the same publishers. With the advent of the new mass market cover, this [...]