See you in Albany on April 4th!
Upstate New York, I’m heading your way! Come join me on the campus of beautiful Siena College in Loudonville, NY, where I’ll be speaking at the Yates Gallery of Standish Library in discussion with Professor Stacey Dearing at 6pm on Tuesday night. The event is in person, free, and open to the public. Books will…
Read MoreTonight! 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…
Read MoreTonight! 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…
Read MoreTWO 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…
Read MoreTWO 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…
Read MoreWeekly 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…
Read MoreTWO 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…
Read MoreTWO 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…
Read MorePin 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…
Read MoreWeekly 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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