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In honor of the B-Fest at Barnes and Noble this weekend (I’m appearing at the Natomas B&N tomorrow at 7 p.m.), Haunted is on a big Nook sale for only $2.99. Sale ends June 13, so grab your copy now. Haunted has beautiful interior cover design (I downloaded onto my e-reader to make sure it was there) with Gothic chapter headers that are a real pleasure to look at and add depth to the story. Here’s a link to the Nook...

I’ll be appearing with several other authors at the Natomas (California) Barnes and Noble. So fun to be part of this B-Fest. I’ll be there Friday, June 10 at 7 p.m. to meet, greet and sign books! This is the awesome picture they’ve been tweeting. By the way, you can find me on Twitter @LynnCarthage. Hopefully see you...

I’m excited something happened that I hoped would happen. A friend is off to Paris…and she asked me how to find the Picpus cemetery that appears in my novel Betrayed. I’m delighted to send someone to a place that is pretty rare for the typical tourist, and yet an incredibly important Revolution site. This is the cemetery where two mass graves hold the victims of the nearby guillotine that once stood at today’s...

A book review blogger just posted about how there’s a secret blacklist of authors who are notoriously hard to work with. She, Erin Davies of Flashlight Commentary, decided she wanted to turn the idea on its head and create a Wall of Fame of authors that were nice to deal with. I’m so proud and touched to be on that list. Taking an extra second to email someone to thank them, being nice in our dealings… there’s...

I have to confess, one of my favorite things to do is sign books. With Haunted, each book got a cute little ghost alongside my signature. With Betrayed, I’ve been working on mini guillotines. At first, I was doing monochrome–and I confess, the pool of blood was very unrealistically rendered. Then I moved on to add color.   And added some clever things to say. If you don’t know about Picpus, read my book or click...

I adore cover art. I love looking at it, thinking about it, and –yes–making judgments about the book based on it, although we’re admonished not to. I used to love this blog for its thoughtful analysis of book jackets; he stopped blogging in 2010, darn it. He’s offered up this blog, The Casual Optimist, as an alternative, and I’ve been enjoying visiting that site now too. I’ve renewed my already-love...