Hello, Tucson!!
There’s nothing like the joy of mingling with fellow authors and readers at a big, bustling book festival! I’m so happy to be here in Tucson for the Tucson Festival of Books! You can find me tomorrow, Saturday, March 4th at 11:30am, with the other two thirds of Team W, Karen White and Beatriz Williams,…
Read MoreChatting with Robin!
Join me on @robinkallink’s Instagram Live at 3pm ET this afternoon as we chat about my upcoming Two Wars and a Wedding! I’m in Tucson on retreat with the rest of Team W right now– we’re polishing up Team W Book 5!– but I’ll be popping out to babble about 19th century Greece and Cuba…
Read MoreTWO WARS AND A WEDDING: Betsy in Greece
With three weeks to go until Two Wars and a Wedding appears in stores, it’s time to explore Greece– 1896 Greece, that is! In 1896, Smith College grad Betsy Hayes arrives in Athens to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, one of two female students among a bunch of Harvard guys. …
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Welcome the to 13th Annual Pinkorama! Some claim that thirteen is an unlucky number– but I think thirteen could just be our lucky Peep! I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that a random impulse thirteen years ago– “Hey! Does anyone feel like making a Pink Carnation-themed diorama out of Peeps?”– has…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! I’ve been hopping around from genre to genre this week, starting with old school British chick lit: Trisha Ashley’s Chocolate Wishes, set in the small village of Sticklepond in Lancashire. Our heroine’s mother abandoned the family for places unknown (possibly Goa), leaving our heroine to raise her brother, Jake, while also running…
Read MoreSee you on the screen and on the road!
It just dawned on my that March is next week. And with March comes… events! Lots and lots of events. Instagram live events. Zoom events. In person events. An event for everyone! (Hopefully.) Are you ready? Here we go….. (I have linked to the events that are linkable, so if there’s one you want to…
Read MoreTWO WARS AND A WEDDING: Betsy at Smith
With only one month (!!) to go until Two Wars and a Wedding appears in the world, I’ve been digging through some of the images I came upon while researching. Want to join me on a whirlwind tour through the various worlds of Betsy Hayes, Smith grad, would-be archaeologist, and accidental war nurse? As those…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! My kids have gotten me sick– again– so hello from the fever haze! In honor of Valentine’s Day, I dug into my old Jo Beverley collection and re-read her Forbidden Magic, which contains some of my favorite tropes (we all have our favorite tropes): the heroine of good family fallen on hard…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Hi, all! Apologies for being a day late with this week’s reading round up! It’s been a bit of a discombobulating week (long story involving pub dates for future books moving around, and also trying to figure out what’s going on with my March book tour for Two Wars and a Wedding), so I turned…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS: $1.99 today!
What a fun surprise to learn that Band of Sisters, my lightly fictionalized story about the women of the Smith College Relief Unit, is on sale across e-book platforms today for $1.99! It was just about four years ago that I stumbled on the story of a group of amazing Smith College alumnae who went…
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