Well, not exactly. You may have noticed that my fictional worlds tend to intertwine. No matter how hard I try to write something unrelated, it invariably links back to Pink, such as “A Night at Northanger”, which was meant to be a one-off– until I decided I liked the heroine so much that I had [...]

Jane Austen Made Me Do It, an Austen-inspired short story anthology, arrives in stores today! In honor of the JAMMDI release, I’ve posted some Q&A I did for the JAMMDI “extra” portions below. Q. How did Jane Austen make you do it? What inspired you to join this anthology? Really, Laurel Ann Nattress made me [...]

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, there’s an excerpt from my new short story, “A Night at Northanger”, up on Scribd, along with excerpts from the other short stories in the Jane Austen Made Me Do It anthology. “A Night at Northanger” features Cate Kartowsky, a budding young journalist with vast ambitions [...]

There’s rather a lot going on in my world right now, so, instead of the normal Teaser Tuesday, here’s a hodgepodge of recent and upcoming happenings. I’ve just been sent the new UK cover for The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Mistletoe appears in stores over there on 28 November. (We’ll be getting our own paperback [...]

Way back in March and April, some of you canny folks noticed that my Weekly Reading Round-Ups were leaning heavily towards the 1920s, with a high proportion of non-fiction in among the novels. The official announcement came out in Publishers Weekly yesterday, so I’m finally at liberty to say…. You guessed right. I’ve been writing [...]

Since today is Georgette Heyer’s 109th birthday, it seemed a good time to share some of the ways in which Heyer has influenced the Pink books. I’ll confess: I was not initially a fan of Heyer. I picked up my first Heyer back in sixth grade, primarily because there was a quote from Judith McNaught [...]

As announced last week, I’ll be exhuming my old law school satire, Two L, from the vault of lost novels later this month. Basically, Two L is Measure for Measure meets Evelyn Waugh meets Legally Blonde meets too much free coffee my 3L year. I debated long and hard about putting it out there because, [...]

In the midst of all the Mistletoe mania, poor Augustus and Emma have been entirely shuffled to the side. It’s tough competing with Turnip. So, as an apology to them– and to you, for giving you your Teaser Tuesday on a Wednesday!– here’s one of my very favorite scenes from The Garden Intrigue: the ill-fated [...]

Yesterday’s walk down Mistletoe memory lane got me thinking about another Fitzhugh who needs a story. That’s right: Turnip’s little sister Sally. Because we all know, if Turnip has a story, Sally wants one, too. Preferably gold-plated, enameled, and decorated with a cunning little pattern of seed pearls. And, yes, she’ll take the matching earrings [...]

As some of you know, last week, Miss Gwen shamelessly hijacked Pink X. This didn’t come entirely out of the blue. I’d known for a while that Miss Gwen was going to get a story of her own. And by “for a while”, I mean since summer of ’08. In the summer of ’08, I [...]