This week, when I haven’t been immersing myself in another century for the next book, I’ve been making my way through Robert Galbraith’s latest Cormoran Strike mystery, Lethal White. (Am I the only one who thinks of poisoned flat whites when she sees that title? No? Just me?) This one picks up where Career of…

I can’t tell you about most of my reading this week, since it’s for the next Work-in-Progress, which is hush hush top secret…. But I did treat myself to the new Robert Galbraith, Lethal White, which I’ve just started.  Somehow, there’s something about those Galbraith books that just says “September” to me.  Maybe it’s because…

Greetings from the last leg of book tour!  Sending thoughts and good wishes to everyone in the path of Florence. I hope you’re tucked up well away from the storm with a pile of good books and that all your loved ones are safe. It’s been a week of planes, trains, and automobiles! (Not always…

Hello from the road!  One of the best things about book tour is all those hours on airplanes– perfect reading time! This week, I dove into Diane Biller’s Harnessed Lightning, in which a disgraced Gilded Age divorcee returns to New York, buys a haunted house upstate, and winds up enlisting the aid of a scatterbrained…

Happy Labor Day weekend!  I’ve been in a bit of a book slump, picking books up, then putting them down.  It’s definitely me, not them. I did finally read Kate Morton’s last book, The Lake House, set in an abandoned house in Cornwall, around a missing baby in the past and a disgraced police officer…

This week, I’ve been reading through the Barbados Book as I put the final tweaks on the manuscript– and I have an announcement to make! The title of the Barbados Book is… THE SUMMER COUNTRY. The Summer Country will be coming your way summer 2019. Although if you find yourself in New York City on…

This week I had the privilege of celebrating book launches with Fiona Davis and M.J. Rose.  Both books delve deep into the history of New York in the twentieth century and both are excellent. The Masterpiece takes us deep into Grand Central Terminal, first in the glory days of the 1920s, then in the gritty grimness…

This week was all England all the time, in books, at least. I read Julia Whelan’s My Oxford Year, about an American abroad at Oxford– which made me want to re-read Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night, arguably the best of all possible Oxford novels in that best of all possible worlds (although you can also put…

It’s been a bit of a week, so I’ll confess I’m having trouble remembering what I’ve read.  (What day is this again?) But two books stand out.  Beatriz Williams’s The Summer Wives, set on fictional Winthrop Island in the 1930’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s, as choices made in one generation shape the lives of those who come…

I’m going to be back to the writing cave shortly with revisions on the Barbados Book, but, in the meantime, it’s such bliss to get to dive into other people’s fiction– new fiction, not books I’ve read a hundred times before.  (I tend to stick to old favorites when I’m writing.) To kick off my…