Team W Book V: Coming Your Way November 2024!
Team W’s fifth (!!) collaborative novel, THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER, is headed your way on November 5th, 2024! We call this our “Monarch of the Glen meets Murder She Wrote” book. It’s a madcap mystery set in a castle on a remote Scottish island where a male author is found murdered multiple ways. Suspicion…
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Happy Friday, all! What with finishing proofs for the Manhattan Well Murder book (now officially titled THE WOMAN IN THE WELL, coming your way January 2025!) and a cover reveal for the latest Team W book (THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER, coming to a bookstore near you November 5, 2024!), it’s been a bit of…
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Happy Friday, all! One of the best things historical fiction does is to bring back the stories of people who should be remembered, but aren’t. This week, I read Allison Pataki’s latest, Finding Margaret Fuller, and marveled at the way this woman– whose story reads like fiction even though it all happened!– has been forgotten.…
Read MoreReady… Set… Peep!
Welcome the to 14th Annual Pinkorama! Can you believe it’s been almost twenty years (next January!) since the first Pink Carnation book came out and fourteen years of Peep dioramas? I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that a random impulse fourteen years ago– “Hey! Does anyone feel like making a Pink…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve been bouncing all over as a reader recently (including bouncing off some books, but I never include those!). This week, I’ve gone from 1990’s set ghost story to contemporary small town romance to an old (but new to me) cozy mystery. Of course, I had to read the new Simone St.…
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Happy Friday, all! I’m so in arrears on my reading round-ups that it’s hard to know where to begin! Thanks to my small people, we’ve had a few rounds of norovirus and a bunch of unspecified sinus infections, so there’s been a lot of comfort reading going on: vintage Elizabeth Peters (the stand alone mysteries),…
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I’m headed to California for the first time since 2011! If you’re in the San Diego area, come join me and an amazing line up of authors (including the other two-thirds of Team W, Beatriz Williams and Karen White) for Adventures by the Book’s SuperBook Weekend! You can find more details and tickets here. See…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s a rainy, tea-drinking sort of Friday here in New York. We’ve been a household of plague, with my overachieving kindergartner bringing home both flu and strep (viral and bacterial all in one adorable, germy package!), so it’s been a week heavy on comfort reads for me, starting with the madcap joys…
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Happy Friday, all! I fell down a reading rabbit hole this week. A BookBub sale reminded me that it’s been some years since I’ve reread Mary Stewart’s This Rough Magic, which has never been my favorite Mary Stewart (that would be Nine Coaches Waiting or Thornyhold) but has always been well up there in my…
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Happy Friday– and happy New Year! I know I read a great deal during the what-day-is-it-again blur of the holidays, but only two books stood out: Charlotte Vassell’s The Other Half and Emily Lloyd-Jones’s The Bone Houses. I hadn’t expected to love either of these– the back copy gave me a very different sense of…
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