Find That Book!: Dual Timeline
Ever feel like you’re craving a certain type of book but have no idea where to look? Yep, me, too. So I’m starting a weekly Find That Book series! Send in your book needs and I’ll open it up to everyone for suggestions, and we’ll see what we can come up with together. Our first…
Read MoreA Special TWO WARS Gift With Pre-Order!
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve teamed up with my friends at FoxTale BookShoppe to offer you a special gift with pre-order: a Two Wars and a Wedding notepad! If you pre-order your copy of Two Wars and a Wedding from FoxTale, I’ll send you a handwritten card with your very own Two Wars…
Read MoreTwo Wars– and a Book Give Away!
Head over to Goodreads for a chance to win one of 100 shiny new advance review copies of my upcoming book, Two Wars and a Wedding! For those of you who read Band of Sisters, this book is a sort of prequel: the tumultuous youth of the woman who would eventually become the founder of…
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Happy Friday, all! Right now, I am suffering an extended book hangover from Zen Cho’s Black Water Sister. I’m not quite sure how to describe it other than to say it has ghosts, it has family secrets, it has angry gods, it has revenge, and it has a hipster coffee shop. The heroine, a recent…
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Meet me in Maryland! (Okay, it’s not St. Louis, but it is alliterative.) I’m so thrilled to be taking part in A Likely Story Bookstore’s 10th Annual Day for Book Lovers this coming Monday, September 19th. There’ll be lunch; there’ll be books; there’ll be Sarah Horowitz talking about her fascinating new historical non-fiction book The…
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Happy Friday, all! First of all, why did it take me so very long to read The Murder of Mr. Wickham? (Never mind: I know exactly why. I’m always scared reading books where beloved characters are presented by someone other than the original author.) Billed as Jane Austen meets Clue, the idea was sheer brilliance:…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a wonderful grab bag of books this week, with some very old and some very new, but all new to me, starting with Ruth Ware’s latest, The It Girl, about a woman whose roommate at Oxford was murdered during– and who comes to doubt what she thought she knew about…
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Happy Friday, all! I’m just back from a week in the White Mountains with the kids (so much Storyland!) during which it seemed easiest to just continue my epic re-read of Charlotte MacLeod’s Sarah Kelling books– I’m not sure just why I find them so soothing, but I do. This week was what I think…
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Happy Friday, all! Confession: I have been on a ridiculous Patricia Wentworth-a-thon. The one exception has been Chris Bohjalian’s The Lioness, part thriller, part historical fiction, about a 1960s safari for a Hollywood starlet and her husband gone very, very wrong. Otherwise, it’s been all Patricia Wentworth, all the time, at the rate of roughly…
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Happy Friday, all! This week was a bonanza of new books as I caught up on some of my stack of new releases, starting with Megan Miranda’s latest, The Last to Vanish, a small town in the Appalachians with a reputation for mysterious disappearances. Is it coincidence? Natural causes? Or is there something sinister going…
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