Happy Friday, all! Those of you who follow me on Facebook and Instagram will have seen that there’s been Book News this week!  For those who aren’t, I promise, I’ll pull together a proper post about it here soon. When I haven’t been in the new book cave (which is similar to the writing cave…

Happy Friday, all! This has been a multi-book vortex week for me: copy edits on the new Team W book (coming autumn 2024!), editing the massive historical note for the Manhattan Well Murder book (coming January 2025!), and research for my next book after that (coming autumn 2025!), about which I’ll tell you very soon,…

Happy Friday, all! It’s a particularly happy Friday for me because I turned in the revisions for the Manhattan Well Murder book this week!  And Team W finally came up with a name for our latest collaboration.  So it’s been a banner week for upcoming books: the Team W book coming out autumn 2024 and…

Happy Friday, all! I’ve been deep in revisions for the Manhattan Well Murder book (coming your way, hopefully with title, in January 2025!) so mostly I’ve been reading my own manuscript.  Repeatedly.  But for sanity’s sake, I did carve out some time to read other peoples’ books, starting with Kate Racculia’s Bellweather Rhapsody, a mystery…

Happy Friday, all– and happy October! To try to make it feel more like October, I started this week with one of the books on my Halloween list: Carol Goodman’s The Bones of the Story, in which the alums of a writing program return to their upstate college and find themselves, snowbound, being murdered one…

Happy Saturday, all! Apologies for being a day behind– I’ve been deep in research material for the next book and emerged with surprise to find I was two centuries away and a day late for Reading Round-Up. When I haven’t been living in the 1790s and early 1800s, I had the fun of finishing up…

Happy Friday, all! Once again, I’ve spent the week busy with research for the new book (on which more later).  But when I haven’t been reading monographs with many footnotes, I tumbled back into the familiar old realm of 1990s Sherlock Holmes spin-offs: namely, Carole Nelson Douglas’s Irene Adler and Laurie King’s Mary Russell. I…

Happy Friday, all! I apologize for a very long Reading Round Up hiatus!  What was meant to be just a week or two away from my website turned into… the whole summer.  In that time, I was finishing up the Manhattan Well Murder book (now with my editor!) and huddling with Beatriz and Karen over…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a mixed reading week for me.  It started off brilliantly with the swashbuckling Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, in which a semi-retired 12th century female pirate must emerge from seclusion, reassemble her crew, and battle the supernatural when her family is threatened.  It’s the best possible mix of Raphael Sabatini, Sinbad…

Happy Friday, all! In between preschool graduation and trying to wrangle Alexander Hamilton into cooperating in my new book, I finally got around to one of the books I’ve been looking forward to: Garth Nix’s The Sinister Booksellers of Bath. In this follow-up to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, our heroine Susan must fight an…