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Book signing July 10 in Maryland

I'll be signing books with authors Nora Roberts/J D Robb, Mary Blayney, Jocelynn Drake, Donna Kauffman, Diane Whiteside, Austin Gisriel,  and Katrina Shelley

Saturday 10 July
Turn The Page Bookstore Cafe
15th Anniversary Event
12-2 PM
18 N. Main St
Boonsboro MD  21713
301-432-4588

I'm told that yes, copies of Last Night's Scandal will be there!

Interview at All About Romance

You might want to stop by All About Romance between now and Thursday.  Sandy Coleman has posted an interview with me, which deals with Last Night's Scandal as well as other topics.  If you comment, you'll have a chance to win an Advanced Reading Copy* of the book, which won't be in stores until 27 July.

*This is a version that goes to reviewers.  It contains the occasional typo and weird

Last Night's Scandal at Salon.com

June is starting out well.

Over at Salon.com, Sarah Wendell of Smart Bitches Trashy Books has included Last Night's Scandal  on her short list of recommendations for summer reading .  Just scroll down to the "Once Upon a Time" part, and you'll find my new Carsington book listed, along with the latest by Joanna Bourne and Lisa Kleypas.

Behold us celebrating.

The Bride in White

In response to a reader comment regarding a previous post, I'm doing connected blogs.  There's more about white wedding dresses at Two Nerdy History Girls.

This is an 1831 white wedding dress, one of several examples I've found of white wedding dresses before Queen Victoria wore white at her wedding (10 February 1840).

The description comes from La Belle assemblée: or, Court and fashionable

Books in France and Japan

One of the thrills of my job is seeing the foreign versions of my books.  Here are some that came in recently.  Here's what Miss Wonderful looks like in Japan:

 In France, here's Not Quite a Lady:
And Your Scandalous Ways:

More Yale

Last class, plus surprise appearance by Fabio.

Romantic Times Award for Don't Tempt Me

Sorry, I have to brag:

Don't Tempt Me, which spent several weeks on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, and went into a third printing, has received the 2009 RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Historical Love & Laughter.

Historical Romance thrives at Yale

Let me commence with with the quotation I swiped from the syllabus for "Reading Historical Romance, " taught by authors Lauren Willig and Andrea DaRif (w/a Cara Elliott):

"Although our [novels:] have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.  From pride, ignorance, or fashion,

Mr. Impossible goes to Yale

Nerdy History Girl Susan Holloway Scott called my attention to this piece by George Eliot. 

I know that for some people, all romance novels are "silly novels by lady novelists." 

But I don't care what they say because I'm on a reading list at Yale.  Authors Lauren Willig and Cara Elliott are teaching a course called "Reading the Historical Romance"— and my very own Mr. Impossible is Required

Last Night's Scandal in glorious purple

Last time I mentioned page proofs.  This is the first pass at the print version, when the book really starts to look like a book, and the author looks for the mistakes she missed, as mentioned in an earlier post, the previous ten thousand times she—not to mention the copy editor and various other editors—went over it.  No matter what, I always find mistakes in the page proofs that can't all be