Thanks to my friend Vicki (hi, Vicki!), I had a pile of new books to read this week. They were all very different and all excellent. First up? The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders. Those of you who are frequent readers of this site will know that Kate Saunders’s The Marrying Game and Bachelor…

Perhaps it’s something about fall, but I’ve been on an old school Gothic kick this past week. I started with Anna Lee Huber‘s upcoming book, Secrets in the Mist, a Regency set Gothic involving misty marshes, a mysterious creature named “The Lantern Man”, and, of course, smugglers. From there, I moved on to some old…

As I finish up the revisions on the Gilded Age book (more about that soon, I promise!), I’ve been doing my best to read outside of my comfort zone, to try new genres and authors– or, at least, books I wouldn’t have picked up on my own. This week? — Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker, involving a…

Happy Labor Day weekend! This week I belatedly discovered Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook, in which a high ranking official in a top top secret organization finds herself plunging back into her old life after being stripped of her memories by a traitor. It’s a little bit Rivers of London and a little bit James Bond…

Happy Friday, all! In between ripping up bits of my manuscript this week (oh, revisions), I indulged in Helen Simonson’s The Summer Before the War, in which World War I comes to the inhabits of a Thirkell-esque village, and Liane Moriarty’s Truly Madly Guilty, in which something goes very wrong at a barbecue and you…

There’s something about summer and brand new books that just goes together. In between gnashing my teeth over revisions (revisions always entail tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth– or, at least, lots of wine and chocolate), I’ve been indulging in some new to me books. This week’s haul: — Laurie King’s The Bones of…

I’ve finally gotten around to reading some new (and new-ish) releases that I’ve had on my pile for a while. At the top of the pile? Eleanor Brown’s The Light of Paris, a lovely book about a grandmother and a granddaughter, one in the 1920s, the other in the 1990s, trying to find their true…

Now that the draft of the next stand alone is in the hands of my editor, I’ve been catching up on reading the large pile of ARCs (advance review copies) that accumulated next to my desk over the past few months. It’s been an eclectic and fascinating mix of reads, including: —The Fire by Night…

Happy July! I’ve mostly been researching the next book– about which I’m staying mum for the moment– so much of what I’ve been reading won’t appear here just yet. On the fiction front, though, I’ve stumbled upon a few new to me books and authors, including: — Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven, a novel…

When I’m working on the end of a book, I need books like a diver needs his oxygen tank. And not just any books. Series work best. Series entirely unrelated to what I’m currently writing work best of all. I got through the end of That Summer with Laurie King’s Kate Martinelli mysteries, The Other…