Today I’m at Romance at Random talking about the inspiration for True Pretenses and the difference between a romance and a tragedy.
Month: January 2015
Yay!
All the “best of 2014” lists are popping up, and Sweet Disorder has been showing up on some of them! I’m collecting the mentions here mostly for my personal reference, but I know reading these lists has added to my TBR pile, so if you’re looking for an awesome book to read…
Janga’s Top Ten Romances of 2014, at the Romance Dish.
Janine’s Best of 2014 at Dear Author.
Willaful’s Best of 2014 at Dear Author.
“My Favorite Historical Romance Novels in 2014” at Love Saves the World.
Best of 2014 at Romance Novels for Feminists
And A Lily Among Thorns made a list of favorite historical romances read in 2014 at Reading with Analysis!
I’m so proud, you guys. Thank you to everyone who read one of my books this year.
Welcome Theresa Romain and her awesome books!
Readers, thanks for visiting! Today, Theresa Romain and I are chatting about our January historical romances, which both feature heiress heroines 
(mine: True Pretenses, and hers: Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress). But as we talked, we discovered many more things we wanted to talk about—everything from character casting to mall singers to “manflirting” as an aristocratic cultural marker.
This is part 2 of 2 of the chat. You can find the beginning on Theresa’s blog. And please stick around to comment, because we’re offering a book giveaway on each site!
When last you saw us on Theresa’s blog, Theresa was talking about the silly plans romance heroes make…
Continue reading “Welcome Theresa Romain and her awesome books!”
Blog tour stop #3
Zoe Archer, Elizabeth Boyle, Louisa Edwards and I share our favorite con artist romances of page and screen at the USA Today Happy Ever After blog! My TBR pile grew several inches while writing this column, let me tell you.
Blog tour stop #2
Remember the academic covers meme from a couple years ago?
Well, I made a new one for True Pretenses and I’m unveiling it today at History Hoydens. Plus, I’m taking requests! Comment on the post with a romance you love (or hate, I guess) and I’ll make alternative scholarly covers for my favorite five suggestions.
Final Teaser Tuesday!
True Pretenses releases exactly one week from today! In honor of that, here’s a very special excerpt: the lead-in to Ash and Lydia’s first kiss.
Remember, you can read the complete first chapter and pre-order the book here.
Blog tour stop #1
I kick off the blog tour with an interview over at Smexy Books. Mandi asks me about writing a shleppy hero, writing cross-class and cross-cultural romances, and more. Plus, I’m giving away a book!
Blog tour master post
ETA: The blog tour is complete! All links are below.
Tomorrow kicks off my blog tour for True Pretenses! I’m really excited for this one, guys. Follow along for fun discussions, giveaways, &c. This post will be updated with links as guest posts go live.
1/6/15 – Smexy Books – Interview with Mandi about writing a shleppy hero, cross-class and cross-cultural romance, and more.
1/7 – History Hoydens – Unveiling the academic cover for True Pretenses and taking requests from commenters.
1/8 – Happy Ever After – Zoe Archer, Elizabeth Boyle, Louisa Edwards and I share our favorite con artist romances of page and screen.
1/9 – Theresa Romain and I did a two-part chat/mutual interview in which we talk about everything from character casting to mall singers to “manflirting” as an aristocratic cultural marker – part 1 at her blog – part 2 at mine.
1/12 – Romance at Random – the inspiration for True Pretenses and the difference between a romance and a tragedy.
1/13 – Heroes & Heartbreakers – con artist myth vs. reality. SPOILER: You CAN con an honest man.
1/14 – Angieville – Q&A – favorite fictional heroes, the word association game, and more.
1/15 – Smitten by Books – my favorite marriage of convenience romances.
1/16 – The Romance Dish – Q&A – conflict, time travel bodyswap, lucky New Year’s foods and more.
1/18 – Risky Regencies – Q&A – research, TV, the etymology of “swindler” and more.
1/19 – All About Romance – anti-Semitism and intermarriage in the Regency.
1/20 – bookworm2bookworm – how romance novels model breaking out of entrenched emotional patterns.
Spoiler-friendly "True Pretenses" discussion post
Hi everyone! This is a spoiler-friendly discussion and questions post for True Pretenses. I’d love to hear anything you have to say about the book! And if there’s anything you want to ask me (about the book, about writing the book, about characters in the book, about what happens next, anything really), go for it.