Kicking off my blog tour today at bookworm2bookworm! Stop by to learn Five Fun Facts about my new release, SWEET DISORDER, and enter to win an e-book. (Among other things, you’ll learn about Regency narrative quilts, the time my grandfather ate a rotten salami during the war, and just how into Gossip Girl I was when I was writing this book…)
Category: blog tour
Unveiling the blog tour prize package!
ETA: Our winner is Elaine. Congratulations!
My blog tour is coming up soon!
3/14 – bookworm2bookworm
3/16 – Risky Regencies
3/19 – Heroes and Heartbreakers
3/21 – Smexybooks
3/24 – Samhain blog
3/26 – History Hoydens
At each stop in the tour, I’ll be giving away a free Sweet Disorder e-book to one lucky commenter (in the format of their choice). Plus, at the end of the tour, I’ll choose one commenter at random from the entire tour to receive a special prize package! The package includes:
– free e-book of Sweet Disorder
– signed promotional postcard
– rosette (in your choice of colors)
– 4 bookmarks
– 5 1″ pinback buttons (to see the rosettes, buttons, etc, look here)
– 4 bacon-scented votive candles from Kittredge Candles (yes, it’s relevant to the book, you’ll see why when you read it!)
– William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
– melt-in-your-mouth coffee caramels (probably these, but Seattle has a lot of great local chocolate companies so I’m keeping my options open), similar to the coffee-cream bonbons Mr. Moon serves Phoebe.
– $10 gift card for B&N or Amazon.com
Yay! 8 days to Sweet Disorder!
Risk is my middle name! Well, okay, actually it's not. But it could be!
I’m over at Risky Regencies talking about what’s risky about Lily and giving away a copy of the book. Stop on by!
BN.com
I did a guest post over at the BN.com romance blog today, and the same post is up for discussion in their romance forum! Check it out.
Les poissons, les poissons, 'ow I love les poissons!
I’m over at Kat Latham’s blog with ten tips on how I write characters with accents. Stop by, let me know what you think, and enter to win a copy of A Lily Among Thorns!
Like therapy but with more sex scenes.
I’m over at Musetracks talking about Rosh Hashanah, personal growth in romance, and why I’m proud to be a romance reader and writer.
“You’re insane!” “No, no, the other thing.” “Superman will never let you—” “WRONG!!!”
I’m over at The Season’s blog today talking about writing well-rounded villains (and, as you can see, my crush on Tom Hiddleston, who played Loki in the Thor movie). I’m giving away a book, so stop by and tell me about your favorite 3D villain!
Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax…
Talking about beta heroes, titles, research, and Avatar: the Last Airbender over at my friend Susanna Fraser’s blog! This was a really fun interview.
Blog tour
My Lily blog tour got off to a great start at History Hoydens last week, where I talked about chemistry during the Regency period.
Coming up, here’s the schedule (I’ll still be adding a couple more dates but this is what I’ve got scheduled at the moment):
10/2: A Q&A at Susanna Fraser’s blog about beta heroes, research, titles, and Avatar: the Last Airbender.
10/7: A post about personal growth in romance novels at Musetracks.
10/12: A post about protagonists who work at Cecilia Grant’s blog.
10/13: A Q&A with Solomon and Serena at Bookworm2bookworm.
10/19: A Q&A at Smexybooks.
10/24: A post about writing accents at Kat Latham’s blog.
11/1: The Book Smugglers.
The Season: Date TBA
I’ll be giving away signed books at all of these, so stop by! Oh, and guess what? The In for a Penny Kindle edition
Her bosom swelled
Penultimate guest blog! I did a Q&A with Gerri Russell over at the Chatelaines blog today. I talk about my writing process, the embarrassing yet hilarious things I wrote in high school, and what I do in my free time. And I’m giving away another book in the comments. Here’s a sample:
GR: What influenced you to write about Regency England?
RL: I’ve always been a fan of romance in the comedy of manners tradition. Which mostly translates to “I love banter,” and Regency romance usually has plenty of that. I imprinted on the era early: my mother read me the complete works of Jane Austen in fifth grade, and a friend loaned me my first Georgette Heyer when I was thirteen. We made dozens of trips to the bookstore to buy Regency romances together over the next four years and even exchanged in-character letters between Regency debutante friends like the ones in Sorcery and Cecelia. (I’m sure they were mostly awful, but we thought they were brilliant and hilarious. I remember in one of our favorite scenes, her character’s hero opened his snuffbox with a delicate flick of his wrist–very common in old-skool Regencies–and accidentally spilled snuff all over her dress.) So it’s probably not surprising that it’s what I started writing. Plus, I think the clothes are sexy.
That “delicate flick of his wrist” thing was a running joke with us, actually. We had a whole series of them, but right now the only other one I can remember was we would say “Her bosom swelled” (another common sentence in old-skool Regency romances) and then make gestures like our breasts were exploding. And then laugh really hard. We were a sophisticated lot.
Tell me about an in-joke you and your friends had when you were a kid. Do you still think it’s funny?