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Time for another teaser excerpt from True Pretenses! Remember, you can read the first chapter and pre-order the book here. In this scene, Lydia takes Ash to see their greenhouse.   *   Left to himself, Ash would have sat by the fire until dinner, but he had no objection to a tour of the […]

Hi guys! I thought I had already posted about this but I guess I haven’t, and I’ve been getting some questions about it: Paperbacks. Samhain used to put all full-length novels out in paperback one year after their e-release. They’re switching to a new model at the moment so things are moving around. To the […]

I’m on the Smart Bitches/Dear Author podcast this week, interviewed by Sarah Wendell! 121. Talking historicals with Rose Lerner

True Pretenses comes out in just a few weeks! To celebrate, I’m giving away 5 e-books and a lovely gift basket of items, and this time, the basket is included. Only it’s not a literal basket… Yes, the True Pretenses gift basket operates in a long con artist–fiction tradition of briefcases full of cash! Never […]

To celebrate the imminent release of True Pretenses (about a philanthropist heiress who agrees to a marriage of convenience with a Jewish con artist to get her hands on her dowry), here is the traditional free short story about the characters of my last book, Sweet Disorder. For bn100, who asked for “Nick is a […]

So I have a tradition. Every time I release a book, I celebrate by posting a free short story based on a suggestion from a reader about the characters from my previous book. NB: All contain spoilers. For In for a Penny, I wrote “Four Times Percy Garrett Didn’t Kiss [SPOILER REDACTED], and One Time […]

Time for another teaser excerpt from True Pretenses! Remember, you can read the first chapter and pre-order the book here. In this scene, Lydia takes Ash to visit the Lively St. Lemeston workhouse. Ash has a little more experience with workhouses than Lydia suspects.   *   “Here we are,” she said, stopping before a […]

Time for another teaser excerpt from True Pretenses! (Remember, you can read the complete first chapter and pre-order the book here.) In this scene, Ash has just met Lydia’s little brother.   *   It had been a long evening, Ash thought as he walked back into Lively St. Lemeston. A long evening of swindling […]

Time for another teaser excerpt from True Pretenses! Remember, you can read the complete first chapter and pre-order the book here. (And an exciting annoucement: the first Lively St. Lemeston book, Sweet Disorder, is in the process of going on sale for 99¢ EVERYWHERE and it’s already kicked in at most retailers! Nook should drop […]

Okay, I have discovered something AMAZING. I was reading The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650–1950 by Roy Porter and Lesley Hall, as you do, and I read what may be the greatest phrase of all time: Graham was, perhaps, a wizard showman flourishing in the lubricious twilight world of […]