Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! I just sent the latest round of revisions on Smith Book II, aka the Cuba book– now tentatively titled Two Wars and a Wedding— to my editor, so I’m feeling thoroughly bewildered and bemused and desperately trying to remember all the things I’m meant to be doing but have forgotten about while…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve been back in the revision cave with Smith Book II, aka The Cuba Book, aka the Book That Will Not Die. (At some point, this book will actually have a title! And be done.) I’ve found when I’m deep in the throes of writing or revising I need a very particular…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along Month 11: THE MARK OF THE MIDNIGHT MANZANILLA
Get out your garlic! There’s a vampire among the ton— or possibly not. But Sally Fitzhugh is determined to find out. Which means… It’s time for Pink XI: The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, in which Turnip’s younger sister gets her own book (and an attack stoat), Miss Gwen gets a run away bestseller, and…
Read MoreHappy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day, all! Here’s wishing everyone a day filled with love, in all of its forms. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are two links. (I feel like the Count who Counts: “One! One link! Two! Two links!” And, really, what says love like the Count?) The first is… my traditional Valentine’s Day post,…
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Happy Friday, all! And happy almost Valentine’s Day! This week, the stand out read for me was an advance copy of Piper Huguley’s By Her Own Design, about dress designer Ann Lowe, who designed dresses for Olivia de Havilland and Jacqueline Kennedy among many, many others. Biographical fiction is tough to do well, but this…
Read MoreTHE GLASS OCEAN $2.99! (Plus NEWPORT excerpt.)
From now through Valentine’s Day, you can sail The Glass Ocean with socialite Caroline, con woman Tess, and mysterious Englishman Robert for the low price of $2.99! The Glass Ocean is on sale in e-form until February– now with the first ever sneak peek excerpt from the upcoming Team W book, The Lost Summers of…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve spent another week immersed in the late 18th/early 19th century with the Manhattan Well Murder– but I did sneak away from 1800 New York to 1960s England with the latest in Elly Griffiths’s Brighton Mysteries, The Midnight Hour, in which an aging theatre impressario is murdered with rat poison and the…
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Happy Friday, all! Is it embarrassing to admit that I don’t remember what I read this week? Mostly, I’ve been in a happy research haze, devouring anything I can find about the Manhattan Well Murder of 1799– the topic of the book I’m working on now. The case was New York’s first big sensational murder…
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Happy Friday, all! Do you ever have those weeks where you just can’t settle to a book? I started the week with an Agatha Christie anthology, Midwinter Murder, which suited my lack of attention span perfectly since the stories were short enough to read one by one in little snippets, and included a few Poirots…
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Happy Friday from the frozen Hudson Valley where I’ve been working on Cuba book revisions and supervising Zoom school! Between revisions and remote school, I’ve been going in heavily for comfort reads this week. I kicked off the New Year with a theme read of Patricia Wentworth’s The Clock Strikes Twelve, in which Miss Silver…
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