Teaser Tuesday: Bussa’s Rebellion

Can you believe we’re down to less than a month until The Summer Country appears in stores? Once the book is out, I’m going to be posting the amazing book club guide the folks at William Morrow and I put together.  (The reason I’m not posting it now is that the discussion questions are absolutely…

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Teaser Tuesday

Three more weeks until The English Wife arrives in stores! Last week, as I worked on the edits for my part of the next WWW book, I was rustling around in my photo files looking for some Lusitania pictures when I stumbled across my picture archive for The English Wife. So, just for fun, here’s…

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Teaser Tuesday: Lusitania!

The three W’s have returned from our retreat! After many drinks… … and a few rewrites… … the manuscript is in the hands of our editor! The Lusitania Book (which will eventually have a title) is currently slated to appear sometime in autumn 2018. So expect to hear more about it soon!

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Teaser Tuesday: Coming Next

Here’s the publication schedule for the next year or so…. — April 18, 2017: That Summer (paperback reissue). — July 4, 2017: A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light, a series of personal essays about Paris by assorted authors (trade paperback). — January 9, 2018: The English Wife, aka…

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Teaser Tuesday: Work in Progress

I’m in the final stretch of the currently untitled next stand alone novel– which is why things have been so quiet here on the website. But, to break up the wait, here’s a small outtake from the work in progress. As you may have noticed, my characters tend to talk. A lot. I absolutely hate…

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Teaser Tuesday: the Work in Progress

Here’s a little sneak snippet from the work in progress– one you’re not going to see in the finished book. One of my biggest problems as a writer is when to make my characters stop talking. They do go on. And on and on. And the on and on flows so naturally that I have…

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Teaser Tuesday: A Funny Thing Happened….

A funny thing happened on the way to the next stand alone novel. Remember that book I was working on, the family saga set in Belle Epoque Paris, World War I Picardy, and World War II Paris? That book is not the book you will be reading in 2017. The research was fascinating, the idea…

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Teaser Tuesday: Gabrielle Jaouen returns….

Into every stand alone novel, a little Pink must fall. I didn’t really set out to put a Pink Carnation descendant into every stand alone. But, somehow, because my world is such an interwoven one, it always seems to turn out that way. There was Val Vaughn in The Ashford Affair, Nicholas Dorrington in That…

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Teaser Tuesday: the Final Pink Book

Look what showed up in my mailbox last night! A final copy of the final Pink book. I’m still grappling with this whole “final” bit…. The Lure of the Moonflower appears in stores– and on Kindles, Nooks, and audio players– on August 4.

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Teaser Tuesday: Simon Montfort

With the release of The Other Daughter only three weeks away, my hero, Simon Montfort, has been conspicuously clearing his throat and adjusting his cuffs, wondering why he hasn’t had his Teaser Tuesday spotlight yet. How to describe Simon? He’s the scion of an old and proud family, but his upbringing has been anything but…

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