Tonight! Georgia with Piper Huguley!

I am so thrilled to get to chat tonight with the brilliant Piper Huguley about the forgotten women of history in one of my favorite places, FoxTale Book Shoppe! When: Tonight! Thursday, March 23, 6:30pm Where: FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E Main Street, Woodstock, GA The event is free and in person! I hope to…

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Tonight! NYC with Lynda Loigman!

Join me at tonight at Shakespeare & Co UWS as I get to chat with one of my favorite people, the witty, warm, and wonderful Lynda Loigman! When: Tonight, March 22, 6:30pm Where: Shakespeare & Co UWS, 2020 Broadway The event is free but you can let the store know you’re coming by clicking here…

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TWO WARS AND A WEDDING Is Here!

Today is pub day for my latest book, Two Wars and a Wedding! You can read an excerpt here! There really are two wars in this book, but they’re not the two wars anyone expects.  (No one expects the Spanish-American War?)  They’re the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Spanish-American War of 1898.  While I’d…

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TWO WARS AND A WEDDING: Read an Excerpt!

It’s Launch Night Eve for Two Wars and a Wedding! I’ll be celebrating tonight by joining Elise Hooper on the Likewise app ay 7pm ET/4pm PT to chat about amazing women of history– and particularly the nurses and journalists of the Spanish-American War.  That event is free, virtual, and open to anyone anywhere. In the…

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Weekly Reading Round-Up

Happy Friday, all! With book launch fast approaching (FOUR DAYS!), I’ve been clutching my comfort reads like a teddy bear.  Which is really thematically appropriate now that I think about it, since teddy bears were named after Teddy Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt is a significant side character in Two Wars and a Wedding. But before…

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TWO WARS AND A WEDDING: Virtual Events!

As much as I’d love to be everywhere to celebrate the launch of Two Wars and a Wedding, that would defy the laws of time and space– and radically exceed the amount of childcare I can rustle up. I so hope I’ll see many of you this coming month in Fairfield, Connecticut with Sarah Penner…

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TWO WARS AND A WEDDING: Betsy and the Red Cross

I was tempted to title this post “Betsy meets Clara Barton”, but that sounded a bit too much like an old Scooby Doo episode…. (Although, really, I’d watch time traveling Scooby Doo.) Forgive me!  Book launch makes me a bit loopy. You may know Clara Barton as the Civil War Angel of the Battlefield, America’s…

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Pin the Sheep on the W Fan!

You know how Beatriz, Karen, and I always wear our sheep pins to events?  Now you, too, can be an official sheep-wearer! Over the next few months, Beatriz, Karen, and I will all be appearing at Litchfield Books’s incredible author luncheons  to talk about our individual books.  Everyone who attends all three luncheons will be…

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Weekly Reading Round-Up

Happy Friday, all! It’s March!  Which means we’re in the final lead up to my kids’ spring break and the launch of Two Wars and a Wedding, which occur at the same time.  Next week is Pajama Day, bring your instrument to school day, Donate a Book Day, talking to my daughter’s class about Women’s…

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Book Tour!

With the release of Two Wars and a Wedding fast approaching, I’m getting ready to go on the road! If you’re in any of these parts of the world, I hope you can join me!  (The Connecticut, Pawleys Island, and Rhode Island events are ticketed, so be sure to grab your ticket before they sell…

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