Tonight! With Tasha Alexander and Deanna Raybourn!
The old gang is getting back together! I am so excited to be reuniting with two of my favorite people for the first time in a decade! I mean, it’s not like it’s been a decade since we’ve seen each other. We have tea together, we email together, we’ve done events in pairs– but it’s…
Read MoreAsk Me Anything: BAND OF SISTERS Edition!
Despite– or perhaps because of?– my tendency to either cut off bits of my face or record myself sideways, the response to the Wednesday Ask Me Anythings has been so positive that I’ve decided to keep them going! Today, I’ll be doing a Band of Sisters themed Ask Me Anything! Because there are so many…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS Palooza!
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Band of Sisters launch night eve/ Women’s History Month celebration last night! I couldn’t imagine a better way to kick off both a new book and a month-long celebration of women’s history! Speaking of month-long celebrations…. I’ve got a jam-packed month of Band of…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along: Month 2
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in for Month 1 of the Pink Carnation Read Along! I’m thrilled to announce that it’s time for Book II: The Masque of the Black Tulip! I can’t lie. We’re not supposed to have favorite children, but The Masque of the Black Tulip has always been way up…
Read More‘Twas the Night Before Launch…
‘Twas the night before launch/and all through the screen/authors were talking/about the most amazing women of history they’d seen! Okay, I am totally not quitting my day job to write poetry. But I will be on screen tonight with author friends Marie Benedict, Vanessa Riley, and Kristin Harmel discussing our favorite forgotten heroines and celebrating…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’m in that twitchy stage of just-before-book-launch where I can’t quite settle to anything– so even though I have a pile of new books I would usually be raring to read, I finally gave up and resorted to one of my favorite old comfort reads. That comfort read would be Elsie Lee’s The Spy at…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS– Next Week!
I can’t believe there are only three days to go until Band of Sisters appears in the world! When I was typing away at this book, back in the initial lockdown in New York last spring, it gave me hope to know that the women of the Smith College Relief Unit had made it through…
Read MoreTHE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION Discussion Thread
Thanks so much to everyone who joined me tonight at the Pink Zoom meeting! And so many apologies to everyone who tried to join, but whose join now button didn’t work. I’m trying to figure out what happened so it won’t happen again next time! The video did livestream to Facebook, and I’m going to…
Read MorePink Carnation Book Club Tonight!
Is everyone else as excited as I am for tonight’s first Pink Carnation Read Along Book Club Zoom? (Okay, I really have to think of a shorter title for these!! Pink Zoom?) In any event, we’re going to be an intimate group of 500!! And Sarah has told me she “has questions” for me,…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS Reader’s Guide
You may have noticed that I really, really loved researching Band of Sisters. The letters the Smith College Relief Unit sent home from the front were so full of all sorts of details and anecdotes about their daily life in the Somme. And it wasn’t just the letters! There were also photos and maps and…
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