Newburyport– this Saturday!
I’m so delighted to be attending the legendary Newburyport Literary Festival this weekend with my fellow W, Beatriz Williams! (Sadly, no Karen White this time. Karen has strong feelings about going North in cold months.) Beatriz and I will be speaking at 9am at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 26 Pleasant Street about “Captivating Historical…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! For years, friends have been recommending Louise Penny’s Quebec-set Gamache books to me (some went beyond recommendation and actually mailed them to me). Because so many discerning readers couldn’t be wrong, a few years ago I picked up the first one, Still Life— and bounced off it. Two days ago, I picked…
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Happy Friday, all! This week, after bouncing off a couple of recent releases that were perfectly fine books, but just not for me, I decided it was time to revisit some old favorites: Elizabeth Peters’s Jacqueline Kirby books. The Seventh Sinner is set among artists and archaeologists in Rome; The Murders of Richard III at…
Read MoreTeam W Book V: Coming Your Way November 2024!
Team W’s fifth (!!) collaborative novel, THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER, is headed your way on November 5th, 2024! We call this our “Monarch of the Glen meets Murder She Wrote” book. It’s a madcap mystery set in a castle on a remote Scottish island where a male author is found murdered multiple ways. Suspicion…
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Happy Friday, all! What with finishing proofs for the Manhattan Well Murder book (now officially titled THE WOMAN IN THE WELL, coming your way January 2025!) and a cover reveal for the latest Team W book (THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER, coming to a bookstore near you November 5, 2024!), it’s been a bit of…
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Happy Friday, all! One of the best things historical fiction does is to bring back the stories of people who should be remembered, but aren’t. This week, I read Allison Pataki’s latest, Finding Margaret Fuller, and marveled at the way this woman– whose story reads like fiction even though it all happened!– has been forgotten.…
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Welcome the to 14th Annual Pinkorama! Can you believe it’s been almost twenty years (next January!) since the first Pink Carnation book came out and fourteen years of Peep dioramas? I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that a random impulse fourteen years ago– “Hey! Does anyone feel like making a Pink…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve been bouncing all over as a reader recently (including bouncing off some books, but I never include those!). This week, I’ve gone from 1990’s set ghost story to contemporary small town romance to an old (but new to me) cozy mystery. Of course, I had to read the new Simone St.…
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Happy Friday, all! I’m so in arrears on my reading round-ups that it’s hard to know where to begin! Thanks to my small people, we’ve had a few rounds of norovirus and a bunch of unspecified sinus infections, so there’s been a lot of comfort reading going on: vintage Elizabeth Peters (the stand alone mysteries),…
Read MoreSan Diego– this weekend!
I’m headed to California for the first time since 2011! If you’re in the San Diego area, come join me and an amazing line up of authors (including the other two-thirds of Team W, Beatriz Williams and Karen White) for Adventures by the Book’s SuperBook Weekend! You can find more details and tickets here. See…
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