A Useful Woman Cover Release
I am so excited to finally be able to unveil the cover of my first Rosalind Thorne mystery: A USEFUL WOMAN The first book in this new series will be in stores and on the shelves May 3, 2016 PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY
Nominated!
LORD OF THE RAKES has been nominated for the RT First Historical Romance award! Go team Philip & Caroline!
Announcing New Books from Darcie Wilde
The contracts are signed, and now it can be told! My next two books will be….MYSTERIES! Set in Regency London, A USEFUL WOMAN will follow the life and struggles of Rosalind Thorne, a gently bred woman of reduced circumstances with the unenviable job of trying to untangle a mystery involving the corpse discovered in that […]
Book Day Never Gets Old
I don’t get much done on Book Day. Oh, I do a lot. I post a lot, I check the various social media a whole lot. I agonize over views and clicks and reviews. I also pace, sometimes literally, sometimes just metaphorically. I have further, I confess, been known to go to bookstores to see […]
Goodreads Giveaway!
There’s still time to win the book Publisher’s Weekly is calling one of the most anticipated of 2014! Sign up to win your free copy of THE ACCIDENTAL ABDUCTION! Contest keeps going until August, 19, 2014.
Maleficent at 47
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS! You read that up there about the spoilers right? Right. Okay. I saw the original Disney Sleeping Beauty in the movie theater. I was 9. Disney was doing one of it’s periodic re-releases of its classic animated features, and Mom took me as a reward for having memorized my multiplication tables […]
That Old Time Feeling
Writing is, by necessity, a profession of emotions. This is not going to come as any kind of surprise to readers, especially Romance readers. Emotions are at the heart of character, and character is at the heart of story. And at the heart of the human brain is a quirk that by describing a feeling, […]
My Romantic Times — Day 4, Most of it Anyway
Got up early enough on Friday that I was able to get out for a walk. Cold was entirely gone and I strolled down Canal, in part so I could find The Ruby Slipper where a bunch of fellow Berkely authors and I were due to have breakfast on Saturday. From there I walked down […]
My Romantic Times — Day 3
Woke up Thursday feeling much, much better. Good enough, in fact, to head back to Cafe Biegnet for, you guessed it, biengets, and strawberries, and some really strong coffee. Life was very, very good. Thursday’s item on the agenda was the “Exorcising Your Writing Demons,” with Patricia Rice, Patricia Burroughs, and Mary Jo Putney. 3 […]
My Romantic Times Day 2 — Antoine’s and What Followed After
So, back there in a previous post, I talked about being a wannabe foodie. I also love grand old restaurants. So, when Jessica Freely suggested lunch at Antoine’s, I said YES. Cold or no cold, I was not missing this. Antoine’s is a genuine New Orleans establishment. It moved to its current location in the […]