http://www.laurenwillig.com/news Lauren Willig's News and Events Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:27:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again, I come seeking advice. As the Pink Carnation series continues to grow, it becomes harder and harder to keep track of who's related to whom, who's doing what when, and who that villain was again. My publisher and I have been discussing putting together some sort ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/07/22/a-pink-carnation-companion/ Did you ever have those children's books with illustrations of a beribboned girl opening a mailbox to find happy surprises within? They were always semi-Victorian in nature, sometimes with a few sheep grazing in the background. Well, I have no sheep; for ribbons, replace with sunglasses; and my ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/07/21/trimmings-fancy-goods/ Hi, all! Break out your inner Gidget. This coming Sunday (July 20th) from eight o'clock until eleven o'clock Eastern time, Writerspace will be holding a virtual beach party with oodles of authors, all popping by to chat online and give away prizes. It would take way too long to ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/07/15/writerspace-beach-party/ Hi, all! I hope everyone had a glorious 4th of July weekend, complete with barbecue, sparklers and all the trappings. Two hundred years and an ocean away from July sunshine and backyard barbecues, it's Christmas Eve in 1803, where Lady Charlotte Lansdowne shivers on the frost-bleached marble steps of ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/07/06/a-sneak-preview-of-the-temptation-of-the-night-jasmine/ Lo, the Great Amazon hath spoken. According to amazon.com (which is usually pretty reliable when it comes to these things), the paperback version of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose will be available on January 6th, while the hardcover of The Temptation of the Night Jasmine will be released ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/06/30/release-dates-for-pink-iv-and-v/ Hi, all! As part of an attempt to avoid dealing with several cranky camels in Book VI, I was rooting around in my Book V files looking for the deleted scene where Charlotte waxes nostalgic about her childhood parrot (as you can imagine, the parrot and the Dowager Duchess of Dovedale ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/06/17/from-the-mixed-up-files-of-the-temptation-of-the-night-jasmine/ Hi, all! Sorry to have disappeared for a few days. I've been off in Cloud-Cuckooland with Book VI. For whatever reason, the first fews chapters of a new book are always the hardest for me, probably because I'm still getting to know the characters, their modes of speech, their ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/06/11/bring-out-the-flying-monkeys/ Hello, my bibliophilic friends! Since I'm rather preoccupied with Book VI right now (and for preoccupied, read mildly obsessive), I don't have much of a reading list for this weekend, but I did happen stumble upon Julia Quinn's new release, The Lost Duke of Wyndham, as I was grocery shopping today. ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/06/06/weekend-reading-5/ In other words, Pink V has a cover! Covers are always a game of roulette-- we've all heard the horror story about the three armed maiden on one of Christina Dodd's early covers-- but I've been exceptionally lucky with mine so far. No mullets, no bulging thews, no women busting ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/06/06/introducing-the-temptation-of-the-night-jasmine/ Courtesy of my new favorite quotation, from Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night: "[H]owever realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offense in the world." Indeed! The comment is made in the context of apologizing for having arranged various bits of the historical ... http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/2008/06/03/greetings-from-cloud-cuckooland/