Tonight! With Tasha Alexander and Deanna Raybourn!

The old gang is getting back together! I am so excited to be reuniting with two of my favorite people for the first time in a decade!  I mean, it’s not like it’s been a decade since we’ve seen each other.  We have tea together, we email together, we’ve done events in pairs– but it’s…

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Ask Me Anything: BAND OF SISTERS Edition!

Despite– or perhaps because of?– my tendency to either cut off bits of my face or record myself sideways, the response to the Wednesday Ask Me Anythings has been so positive that I’ve decided to keep them going! Today, I’ll be doing a Band of Sisters themed Ask Me Anything! Because there are so many…

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BAND OF SISTERS Palooza!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Band of Sisters launch night eve/ Women’s History Month celebration last night!  I couldn’t imagine a better way to kick off both a new book and a month-long celebration of women’s history!   Speaking of month-long celebrations….  I’ve got a jam-packed month of Band of…

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‘Twas the Night Before Launch…

‘Twas the night before launch/and all through the screen/authors were talking/about the most amazing women of history they’d seen! Okay, I am totally not quitting my day job to write poetry. But I will be on screen tonight with author friends Marie Benedict, Vanessa Riley, and Kristin Harmel discussing our favorite forgotten heroines and celebrating…

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BAND OF SISTERS– Next Week!

I can’t believe there are only three days to go until Band of Sisters appears in the world! When I was typing away at this book, back in the initial lockdown in New York last spring, it gave me hope to know that the women of the Smith College Relief Unit had made it through…

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BAND OF SISTERS Reader’s Guide

You may have noticed that I really, really loved researching Band of Sisters.  The letters the Smith College Relief Unit sent home from the front were so full of all sorts of details and anecdotes about their daily life in the Somme.  And it wasn’t just the letters!  There were also photos and maps and…

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Ask Me Anything!

For the month of February you can find me live on Facebook and Instagram (@laurenwillig) every Wednesday at noon! Join me tomorrow, February 3rd, as I live-stream from the snowy Hudson Valley to discuss everything from coffee flavors to the Pink Carnation character who almost made it into Band of Sisters. Do you have questions…

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A Sneak Preview of BAND OF SISTERS

With just a month to go (and a little bit over, as Gilbert & Sullivan would say) until Launch Day, I’m so thrilled to be able to share the first three chapters of Band of Sisters with you! To read, just click here. I hope you love these remarkable women as much as I do. …

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Virtual Events!

As we creep towards spring, I have an exciting line-up of virtual events to help up brush away the pandemic winter blues! Here’s a list of what’s going on so far…. — January 27th, 8pm: celebrating Serena Burdick‘s new book, Meet Me in Havana, at Anderson’s Bookshop. Free and open to the public.  You can register…

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Save the Date!

Put March 1st on your calendar!  I mean, I know, it’s already on your calendar.  What I meant is, save the date!  Because on the evening of March 1st, my publisher is throwing a huge, virtual, Launch Day Eve/ Women’s History Month Extravaganza! There will be Women’s History trivia.  There will be prizes.  There will…

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