I just wanted to pop in from gingerbread baking (we will ignore the fact that I may have absentmindedly put in an extra cup of flour while thinking about something else– oops) to wish everyone an absolutely splendid holiday.

Procrastinating from starting a new book always means that I suddenly find myself embracing the busywork tasks I’ve been putting off for ages. I haven’t quite gotten around to cleaning my closet yet, but I have seen to some long overdue updates here on the website. Ivy & Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas (aka the [...]

…Hard working novelist no longer has to suffer finger strain from typing out That Still Untitled Selwick Christmas novella every few days. The winner, by a very large margin, was Ivy & Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas. Congrats, Megan!! From now unto the ends of the earth, the Selwick Christmas Novella shall be known as [...]

Did you really have to go and come up with quite so many clever titles? Fie, fie! It was nearly impossible to narrow down the more than a hundred entries, and, boy, it hurt eliminating some of those from the final round. In the end, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, my conscripted helpers [...]

Hi, all! I know, I know. I did say I would post finalists today. May I offer a big fat mea culpa? To give my Board of Advisers time to weigh in on the entries, I’m extending the contest until Monday, at which point– I promise, promise, promise– finalists will be posted and the open [...]

Typing out “That Still Untitled Selwick Christmas Novella” several times a day is the manual equivalent of dealing with Peter Piper and his pickled peppers. Amusing the first few times, but…. Since the plan is to post the entire story permanently on the website, to be made available through the Diversions page, it needs a [...]

Brevity has never been one of my virtues. Even in a so-called short story, I found myself producing far more material than I could actually use and wandering down amusing but unnecessary byways. Below are my two favorite deleted scenes from That Still Untitled Christmas Novella. See you on Monday for the Title That Blasted [...]

Hi, all! Thanks so much for making the launch of Night Jasmine such a success yesterday! I’m dying to get going on discussing it, but to give everyone time to read it first, the inaugural meeting of Night Jasmine Book Club will be held on Tuesday, February 3rd. Thanks to one of Kayse’s comments on [...]

All good things must come to an end– but having epilogues helps one put it off longer. See you back here tomorrow for give aways and gaiety in honor of the birthday (bookstore day?) of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine! Without further ado, I give to you the very last installment of That Selwick [...]

Only one day to go until Night Jasmine! In the meantime, to get you up to speed on Eloise and Colin (who reenter the scene in Night Jasmine in January of 2004), voila the missing link in the Eloise and Colin history, revealed for the first time in the Prologue and Epilogue to That Still [...]