About the Author

A native and current resident of Southern California, Suzanne Enoch loves movies almost as much as she loves books. She once appeared on an E! special, Star Wars Is Back, as an expert on the romance in the Star Wars movies. Other highlights include winning her third grade spelling bee, receiving an E.T. poster and T-shirt in an alien-inspired poetry contest, and submitting a script for The A-Team (which was not why the series was cancelled). When she is not busily working on her next novel, Suzanne likes to contemplate interesting phenomena, like how the three guppies in her aquarium became 161 guppies in five months. Julia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since. The New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels for Avon Books, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. Margaret Ryan has written numerous titles for younger readers including several Jets, several Rockets for A and C Black and The Littlest Dragon series for Collins. Her new longer novel, Hover Boy, is to be published by Hodder shortly. Margaret is a tireless visitor to schools, particularly in Scotland where she is well known. Her lively workships with children in schools are legendary!

Reviews

"A strong and charming encore to The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown, this superb Regency-era novella collection is punctuated by gossip columnist Lady Whistledown's witty comments and penned by the same authors who contributed to the previous book . . . this winsome collection is a cut above most romance anthologies." -- Publishers Weekly"If you've never read romance novels, start here." -- Washington Post"Quinn is . . . a romance master. [She] has created a family so likable and attractive, a community so vibrant and engaging, that we want to crawl into the pages and know them." -- NPR Books"Julia Quinn is truly our contemporary Jane Austen." -- Jill Barnett"Simply delightful, filled with charm, humor, and wit." -- Kirkus Reviews