Costa Rica in Pictures
My husband and I went to Costa Rica over the last week. Here are a few pictures to bring you with us! Click to enlarge. Click again for full size. [gallery...
Weekend at the Fair
This past weekend was the annual Rhinebeck sheep and wool festival. If you've never been, it's a grand time. I didn't take a lot of pictures of yarn. It's a bit dark in the barns and you don't get to see how gorgeous the colors are. Plus, the whole point of fiber is...
A Few Good Books
Periodically, I like to recommend a bunch of books without writing reviews. This post focuses primarily on what I'd call mainstream fiction mixed with women's fiction, and all of the recommended titles have a romantic element. They're also overwhelmingly UK-based...
Reissue covers!
I am so excited by these brand new covers for the books I originally released with Penguin. The eBooks should all be out by the end of September and the print books by the end of October. I know the books themselves are old news, but it's so much fun to see them in...
Black Rabbit Hall, a TBR Challenge Read
Okay, so I have completely fallen down on the TBR challenge this year and for that I apologize. On the up side, I have an amazing book to recommend: Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase. (By the way, there are a zillion different covers for this book, so I chose the one I...
The Probable Future, a TBR Challenge Post
I do dearly love a little magical realism with my contemporary romance and women's fiction, so when Alice Hoffman's The Probable Future went on sale a while back I greedily snatched it up. Of course, I have no self control, so I was up until 3am reading it. I...
Notes from the Alpaca Farm
Today I went over to Faraway Farms Alpacas for research. (My current WIP is set on an alpaca farm, but that's all I'm saying because I've only started it.) I met several lovely alpacas and learned a few things I didn't know, so I thought I'd share them here. As one...
The Wind off the Small Isles, a TBR Challenge Read
Anyone who knows me knows my deep and abiding love of Mary Stewart. Every year, I re-read at least two or three of the books. But up until recently, every time I checked for The Wind of the Small Isles, it would show up in the $75 range, which put it at about $1 per...
At The Water’s Edge, a TBR Challenge Read
The theme this month was to read a "new to you" author. I love this cover, and I'd meant to read Water for Elephants when it came out but never got around to it, so I figured it was time. This was a perfectly decent romance novel, but I resent the fact that it was...
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, A TBR Challenge Read
25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past...