Sunrise in German

This is the cover of the German translation of Sunrise in a Garden of Love and Evil.

Isn't it gorgeous?

New Cover, and the Demon Wisteria

 Tastes of Love and Evil is Book Two of the Bayou Gavotte Series, due out August 24th. Yay!
 (If only I get the ending right. Please let me get the ending right.)

Also, I received a letter from Dorchester Publishing on Friday, saying Sunrise in a Garden of Love and Evil will be translated into German. Yay again!

OK, so I'm not a master photographer,
but this is the Demon Wisteria last week,
in full bloom and looking deceptively pretty (while actually it's choking the life out of some poor hapless tree).

Bwa ha ha! Here it is a week later (after last night's storm --hence all the twigs and sweet gum balls), preparing to strangle my deck chair and anything else it can latch its nasty tendrils onto.

Hard to believe this voracious weed is a cosseted darling in northern climes!

Socks

If I have a fetish, it's for socks. I adore socks, and I seldom resist buying them.

I'll be giving this pair away, along with a signed copy of Sunrise in a Garden of Love & Evil, at Patricia's Vampire Notes on Tuesday, February 23rd.

Please join Patricia and me! I'll be talking about why being irresistible sucks...

Toronto pics

Birch tree hoping for more snow

 

Cat totally fine with no more snow

Rock and Unrock Pics (blog will come later)

Unrock cakes

Henry hoping for cookies or crumbs

Mrs. Beeton's Plum Cake

“A Nice Plum Cake” adapted from Beeton's Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, 1861.

3 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. soda
½ tsp. salt
1-1/2 cups currants
1/3 cup diced candied lemon peel
1 stick butter
1-1/4 cups milk

Bake in a greased loaf pan at 350 degrees F for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out more or less clean. It’s good! There was too much batter for one loaf pan, so I made six muffins with the rest, and they were fine, too.

Chichester Churches mentioned in Notorious Eliza

Chichester Cathedral, where the 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster, a Plantagenet (whoa, how cool is that?) lie buried.

St. Olave's Church in Chichester, a thousand years old and now a bookshop nestled between much newer buildings.