I have been receiving a lot of great news recently, so I thought I would share it here. Gefährliche in Diamonds made the New York Times print list at #15 its first week out. It was also on Publishers Weekly’s list, and was #41 auf USAToday! These are my strongest bestseller rankings ever, so I am very excited. I even broke onto The Washington Post list at #8, which is a first for me.

I received the good news while I was out of town. I took a trip with my sisters, to show them my favorite haunts in Italy. We spent some days in Rome and some others in Florence. It was a special time for us, when we could just be together for a week. Two of my sisters had never been to either city, so I enjoyed taking them around and being the tour guide. It was exhausting too, but in the best kind of way.

News about the lists starts trickling to publishers and agents on Wednesdays of each week, and that is when the phone calls began. I was six hours ahead, so it was late at night, but I had not gone to sleep because I was hopeful. The next day at dinner we all shared some champagne to celebrate.

I sincerely thank the readers who supported me with this book and the booksellers who did too! It has been a wonderful two weeks as a result, and I am very grateful.

Madeline

Here I am, a week before the release of Gefährliche in Diamonds, all excited that this book will be in the hands of readers soon! I love this book. My editor loves this book. My publisher loves this book. Will every reader love it? Probably not, because that never happens. Jedoch, I had a wonderful time writing this story and bringing two of my most distinctive characters together.

Readers of Die seltensten Blooms stories have met both Daphne Joyes and Tristan, Duke of Castleford throughout the series. Daphne is composed, collected, and a bit hard to read as a personality. The other women defer to her and depend on her, but there have also been hints regarding the mysteries that she has been hiding.

And Castleford—well, what can I say? He arrived in Hinreißend in Red the way many of my favorite characters do, unexpectedly. He was a bad boy from the start, bad enough that I received a few emails complaining about his behavior. As the series continued, we came to know more about him. He may be an unrepentant hedonist, but, as one reader told me, he has a surprising heart of gold, and he rises out of his perpetual ennui to meddle in friends’ lives for the best of reasons. That he is arrogant in assuming everyone won’t mind when he does, and that his motivations also include relief at having something not bore him—well, that is what makes Castleford who he is.

Of course I had to put these two together! Castleford delights in finding ways to shatter Daphne’s ice queen composure, and Daphne inevitably will bring Castleford to his knees. Along the way there will be discoveries about both of them, humor and action. I promise readers that Castleford remains Castleford through it all. Does he reform? Gut, partly, but a man partly reformed is a man still half bad.

I am busy starting my next series, but as April 26 approaches, my mind is much on Die seltensten Blooms and all these characters with whom I have been living for several years. I firmly believe that as a writer I need to keep moving on, but in this case I am taking a few days to fondly look back too. I hope that you will give the series, und Dangerous in Diamond a try.

Madeline

Die große Neuigkeit ist, dass Sinful in Satin blieb auf der NYTimes Liste für 4 Woche. Das ist eine Premiere für mich, so war es sehr spannend. Ich schätze wirklich alle Notizen und E-Mails, die Leser und Buchhändler haben mir über das Buch geschickt, und die Reihe.

Ich habe jetzt abgeschlossen Gefährliche in Diamonds, das vierte Buch in Die seltensten Blooms Serie, und einen Auszug, sobald es wird das letzte Gütesiegel von meinem Verlag zu bekommen. Der Herzog von Castleford war eine Menge Spaß, darüber zu schreiben, und ich denke, dass die Geschichte spiegelt den gleichen Mann, der Leser haben in den vorherigen Geschichten erfüllt. Selbst wenn wir in den Kopf, in diesem einen, er hat immer noch, dass sehr individuelle Sichtweise auf die Welt, und die Geschichte endete mit viel Humor als Ergebnis. Ich hatte schon ein paar Leser äußern einige bedauert, dass Castle müssen reformieren, um für sein Buch, um Glück für die Heldin am Ende in Ever After, das ist etwas, wie viel einige Leser haben seine unverbesserliche Verhalten genossen, sagt. Ich verspreche Ihnen, dass, während er langsam erkennt, Daphne ist lohnt sich ein paar Opfer, er beabsichtigt, mindestens halb so schlimm sein für immer.

So, jetzt plane ich das nächste Buch (s). Das ist immer wieder spannend für mich zu. Es ist ein Weltgebäude Zeit, weil ich wohl anfangen werden eine neue Serie. Ich verspreche, dass ich nicht Zeichen vom letzten hängen lassen. Zu der Zeit, Gefährliche in Diamonds endet, wir wissen, was mit Katherine und dem Marquis passiert (nicht zusammen, obwohl). So sehr ich geliebt Die seltensten Blooms Serie, und alle diese Zeichen, es ist Zeit, ein paar neue zu treffen. Sie bilden sogar während ich dies schreibe, und ich werde eine andere Note zu schreiben, wenn alles in Platz gefallen. In der Zwischenzeit werde ich mit Ideen zu spielen, und auch mein Büro sauber die, während dieser Serie, mit seiner relativ schnelle Abfolge von Fristen, hat sich zu einer Katastrophe. Ich kann sogar etwas Zeit, um wieder auf Twitter zu finden!

Madeline