THAT SUMMER in the NYT Book Review!
At an event this past fall, I was asked whether my books had ever been reviewed in the New York Times Review of Books. “No, and they’re never likely to be,” I said. This, after all, was right on the heels of various dust-ups regarding the Times’s coverage of women writers in general and women’s…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I know I read something earlier this week. But I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. I know there was some Georgette Heyer in there, specifically The Convenient Marriage, one of my favorite Heyers, and one I haven’t revisited for a while. This one is 18th century, rather than Regency set,…
Read MoreTEATIME FOR THE FIREFLY Winner
The winner of the signed copy of Shona Patel’s Teatime for the Firefly is… Jeffrey! (Of Comment #3.) Congrats, Jeffrey! If you email me with your info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Up next Monday? An advance copy of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla!
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: THAT SUMMER, the painting
There’s a painting that lies at the heart of That Summer, a painting hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe in a house in the suburbs of London. (And, just because life does imitate art sometimes, a month or so after I handed in the final version of this book, an article appeared…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: TEATIME FOR THE FIREFLY
When I discover a good book, I like nothing better than to hand it on. Although in this case, it’s disingenuous to say I discovered it, when, in fact, it was handed to me. So consider it a reading chain. The book in question? Shona Patel’s Teatime for the Firefly. Here’s the official blurb: Layla…
Read MoreThe Poisoned Pen Event on Livestream
If you couldn’t make it to the Poisoned Pen event, you can still see it– right here! The whole event (minus the first five minutes or so) has been captured on livestream and is available via the Poisoned Pen website. (Confession: my ears popped out on the plane out to Arizona in the morning– and…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I had very good book luck this week. All three of the books I read were winners. — Deanna Raybourn, Night of a Thousand Stars. Have you been missing Lady Julia and the Marches? In this wonderful, 1920s set adventure novel, we meet March the next generation– and revisit a bunch of the older generation.…
Read MoreArizona on Wednesday
Tomorrow, I’m off to the next stop on book tour: Arizona! You can find me and Beatriz Williams at 3:00 at the Tempe Public Library and at 7:00 at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. We hope you’ll come join us and share the fun! For more tour stops, just check the Have Author Will…
Read MoreIf You Like….
What with all the spring give aways, we haven’t had an If You Like for a while. In honor of That Summer, I was going to do an If You Like on novels involving Pre-Raphaelite art or artists, but… I couldn’t think of any! There is A.S. Byatt’s Possession, which features Burne-Jones’ Beguiling of Nimue…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, I finally read one of the Owen Archer mysteries by Candace Robb, The Riddle of St. Leonard’s. I loved it, but I’m going to have to go back and start with The Apothecary Rose, since I felt that I was missing out by coming in at the middle. Right now, I have two…
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