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: Lauren Willig
July 25, 2011 | Monday | 49 Comments
You Photoshopped covers, you invoked your wishes for Hot Turnip Action, and lo, Lauren Willig was not afraid of the Joy-ous cover efforts. Lauren Willig has written the “missing scene,” the love scene of Turnip and Arabella on their wedding night. Seriously, y’all, this is the most charming and adorable sexual interlude I’ve read in a long time. You can download your choice of formats - right-click-and-save-as, please! PDF Format (480k) ePub format (106k) (suitable for nook and Kobo devices) mobi format (123k) (suitable for emailing to Yon Kindle) I hope you enjoy. Thank you to Lauren Willig for writing…
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July 19, 2011 | Tuesday | 6 Comments
You came, you saw, you voted, and you celebrated the possibility of Sexytimes for Turnip - now it’s time to proclaim Teh Winnah! With over 600 votes, the winner of the contest is The Mischief of the Mistletoe - Pudding Edition: This cover was, if I understand the email correctly, hand-drawn by Joyce, who has mad talent. Congratulations, Joyce! How excellent is that cover? I’d totally read that—and we all will, soon enough. I have heard tell that Lauren Willig sequestered herself in the Chamber of Turniptemptation, and will be gifting us and readers everywhere with Turnip’s missing scene. We…
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July 16, 2011 | Saturday | 27 Comments
We’ve got quite a selection of covers here. Some satirical, some terrifying, some stunning, and some stunning for other reasons than the first one that was stunning. You ready to pick a winner, and implore Lauren Willig to Write Turnip’s Missing Sexytimes? Here we go! Voting takes place right here, so vote early, vote often (or once, as your IP address allows). Note: the poll might jump around - sorry about that. Tricky poll.
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July 11, 2011 | Monday | 15 Comments
At RWA, I have a lot of silly conversations in the bar. What follows is the result of one of those silly bar conversations. It’s been awhile since we’ve done a Photoshop contest, but IT IS TIME. First, some backstory: Both of the RITA® Reader Challenge reviews for Lauren Willig’s Mischief of the Mistletoe referenced that the hero, one Turnip Fitzhugh, didn’t get a sex scene! Emily wrote, “I love Willig’s light-hearted style. That being said her books work better for me when they are darker. Missing is the steamy sex from the first three Pink books. She writes loves…
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June 26, 2011 | Sunday | 7 Comments
Abby reviewed this book for the RITA® Reader Challenge, and she had nearly the same reaction as Emily. Plot Summary: Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby. Just before Christmas, she accepts a position at the quiet girls’ school in Bath, expecting to face nothing more exciting than conducting the annual Christmas recital. She hardly imagines coming face to face with French aristocrats and international spies… Reginald “Turnip” Fitzhugh-often mistaken…
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June 08, 2011 | Wednesday | 20 Comments
Emily also reviewed this book for the RITA® Reader Challenge, and like a reviewer who I’ll publish soon, wished for a little more steam. Plot Summary: Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby. Just before Christmas, she accepts a position at the quiet girls’ school in Bath, expecting to face nothing more exciting than conducting the annual Christmas recital. She hardly imagines coming face to face with French aristocrats and…
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January 28, 2010 | Thursday | 24 Comments
Grab your lasso and your chaps, because we’re going back to college to round up some romance in academia links. First: on 23 February at 12:30 pm at Brandeis University, documentary filmmaker Laurie Kahn, who directed Tupperware!, a documentary about Tupperware and the women behind it, for PBS’ American Experience, will be talking about her new work-in-progress, “Creating the Popular Romance.” From the press release, sent to me by awesome reader Michael: The world of romance novels (who writes them? who reads them? who publishes them? why are they so popular? and what do they say about our culture?) is…
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March 03, 2009 | Tuesday | 3 Comments
I have three videos from last night’s Lady Jane’s Salon, starting with Lauren Willig reading from The Temptation of the Night Jasmine.
Note: sound quality is not the most majestic thing in the world. I found it best to lower the volume on the YouTube player, but then adjust the tone and volume of my computer speakers. Sorry for the quality.
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February 12, 2009 | Thursday | 4 Comments
Author Lauren Willig writes: Agh, so hard to pick! There are so many wonderful howlers that it was practically impossible to choose between them! Grand Prize Winner: Elizabeth Wadsworth, “The Sheep in the Phlox” Runners-Up: Charmaine Ong, “Daring Deeds of the Devious Daffodil” Midknyt, “The Alliteration of the Asian Alocasia amazonica” KatherineB, “The Insalubrious Emanation of the Skunk Cabbage” Lady T, “The Cuckolding of the Cuckoo Flower” Way to go, winners! Please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with your mailing address so I can make sure you receive your winnings! Congrats and thanks to Lauren and Dutton publishing for the prize and…
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February 04, 2009 | Wednesday | 105 Comments
No, I’m not actually giving away a corpse flower, though I’ve got four cats and an elderly dog, not to mention two boys under 4, so I’ve got no shortage of stanky options, should you desire odoriferous prizes.
But this here is not at ALL a stinky giveaway. Lauren Willig’s new book, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine debuted at #19 on the New York Times Bestseller list this week, and she and her publisher have offered a rather spiffy prize to celebrate.
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