It's Alive! And Giveaway Week

I have just woken up from my winter hibernation to see that there are lilacs in my backyard!  And sun, and green grass!  At last!  I have also just realized I have been a terrible blogger, not even visiting here since (gasp!) January.  So much is happening, though, that I have decided to revive this blog and post at least once a week about life and love, chocolatinis, books, Sleepy Hollow--y'know, all the important stuff.

To get started (and because I also just cleaned out my garage and found boxes and boxes full of old copies of my books), I am going to launch a week's worth of giveaways.  Every day a different book.  Today, we'll start with signed copies of my "Muses of Mayfair" trilogy!

The Chase Muses!  Three adventure-loving sisters find dashing rakes to wed!

Meet Calliope (the sensible one), Clio (the intellectual one), and Thalia (the beautiful one--and the one her sisters always underestimate!), three daughters of a famous antiquarian in Regency England, and their three handsome suitors.  I loved writing these books, since I always wanted a sister of my own (and always had a fascination with archaeology!)

I'll be giving away a complete signed set of the Muses trilogy to one commenter today!!!  What have you been doing since spring has finally sprung??  If you could visit any archaeological site, where would it be?  (I have a dream to visit Pompeii--or Sicily, like Clio Chase...).  What have you been reading lately???


Also, a very happy Mother's Day to the best, loveliest, and wisest of moms!   

Happy Mother's Day!

This pic is of me, my mother, my aunt (my mom's oldest sister), and my grandmother--don't we look nice in our Easter clothes??? Every Mother's Day I think of all the wonderful women who influenced my life when I was young and I'm deeply grateful to them. Especially to my mother, who bought me however many books I wanted when I was a kid (Barbies were another story...) and spent hours reading them with me! She gave me the gift of books and all the astounding places they can take us, and the gift of believing I could even write one myself one day. Thank you so much, Mom, I love you!

Mother's Day Weekend!

Happy Mother's Day Weekend, to my mom (I'm so lucky to have you for my mother!) and all the moms I know. Eat chocolate, go to the spa, watch movies, do whatever makes you happy....