I am beyond delighted that The Summer Country is Shakespeare & Co‘s August book club pick!  (I feel like the cool kid asked me to prom.) Come join me next Monday, August 10th, 6:30pm EST, to discuss all things Summer Country!  There’s still time to grab your copy and join the discussion.  Just email  [email protected]…

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Happy Friday, all!  This week, I took a break from my Miss Silver marathon (okay, not a total break– I did read Latter’s End, and don’t ask me what number in the series it is, because I’ve lost all track!) with a new release from one of my favorite “I would read a telephone book…

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I am so thrilled to unveil the cover of Band of Sisters (aka the Smith Book) coming your way on March 2nd, 2021! Here’s the official blurb: A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true…

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I’ve been very dull this week and reverted to reading mid-century mysteries again: Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Door, which ranks low on my list of Rineharts for a variety of reasons, and Patricia Wentworth’s Dark Threat (I prefer the older title, Pilgrim’s Rest), which is number 9 or 10 in the Miss Silver mystery series,…

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It’s been an absolutely banner reading week for me with not one but two new books in very different genres. Hearing my bat signals of copy edit distress (copy edits always cause distress), my amazing college roommate e-sent me Alexis Hall’s Boyfriend Material, in which the estranged son of two 80’s rock legends has to…

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Come Zoom with me!  We may not have in person events right now, but the wonders of Zoom bring author talks right to your living room– to anywhere in the world, in real time, which is really kind of amazing. You can find me next Thursday, July 23rd, “at” Mansfield Public Library, talking all things…

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The Miss Silver Mysteries Marathon continues (this time with tersely named) The Key, but I’m so very grateful to the wonderful Kate Moretti for breaking up with Miss Silvers with an advance copy of her compulsively readable upcoming ghost story/mystery/thriller, The Girls of Brackenhill. I finished it in a day– much to the detriment of…

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Sadly, Beatriz, Karen, and I had to cancel the July lap of the All the Ways We Said Goodbye tour due to force majeure in the form of a pandemic– but we’re bringing the show to Zoom! Join us this coming Wednesday, July 8th, at a lunchtime event hosted by M. Judson Booksellers.  The event…

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Happy July 4th weekend everyone!  This may not be the 4th we were all hoping for, but one thing stays the same: there will always be books. This week, I continued my Jodi Taylor and Patricia Wentworth marathons with the St. Mary’s adventure A Second Chance (book #3) and the Miss Silver mystery The Clock…

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Happy Friday, all! So many thanks to everyone who zoomed in with me this week with Cary Memorial Library and Warren Newport Public Library— it was lovely seeing you! In reading news, I’ve been binge-reading Jodi Taylor’s St. Mary’s series about tea-sodden, disaster prone, time traveling historians.  This week has been books two and three,…

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