A Sneak Preview of BAND OF SISTERS
With just a month to go (and a little bit over, as Gilbert & Sullivan would say) until Launch Day, I’m so thrilled to be able to share the first three chapters of Band of Sisters with you! To read, just click here. I hope you love these remarkable women as much as I do. …
Read MoreFind Me at Anderson’s!
Tonight, I have the great privilege of joining Serena Burdick at Anderson’s Bookshop (via Zoom) to discuss her latest novel, FIND ME IN HAVANA! Join us as we discuss the Hollywood actress and Cuban exile, Estelita Rodriguez; writing about forgotten women; and the excitement and pitfalls of recreating the stories of real people. Time: Wednesday,…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday! I have so many piles of new books, but I’ve been having such fun revisiting old ones. Interviewing Marie Benedict at the Strand about The Mystery of Mrs. Christie inspired me to revisit the early Miss Marples. I hadn’t realized what a long time it had been since I read them– or how…
Read MoreVirtual Events!
As we creep towards spring, I have an exciting line-up of virtual events to help up brush away the pandemic winter blues! Here’s a list of what’s going on so far…. — January 27th, 8pm: celebrating Serena Burdick‘s new book, Meet Me in Havana, at Anderson’s Bookshop. Free and open to the public. You can register…
Read MoreSave the Date!
Put March 1st on your calendar! I mean, I know, it’s already on your calendar. What I meant is, save the date! Because on the evening of March 1st, my publisher is throwing a huge, virtual, Launch Day Eve/ Women’s History Month Extravaganza! There will be Women’s History trivia. There will be prizes. There will…
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It’s very rare that I’m more interested in our own century than others, but this week was one of those exceptions. When I wasn’t compulsively refreshing the New York Times home page, I did pop back a hundred years to spend some soothing time in the mid-century Britain of Patricia Wentworth. The Dower House Mystery,…
Read MoreBAND OF SISTERS Goodreads Give Away!
There’s another chance to snap up an early copy of Band of Sisters before it hits the shelves in March! There are seventy-six copies currently up for grabs on Goodreads. Why seventy-six, you may ask? I have no idea. Possibly they meant to give away seventy-five and then found an extra one under the desk? …
Read MoreEvent with Marie Benedict– Tonight!
Have you heard of Agatha Christie’s real life mystery? The famous author disappeared for over a week, with the whole country trying to crack the cast, including an aging Arthur Conan Doyle (who had rather less success than his fictional Sherlock Holmes!). Join me and Marie Benedict tonight as we talk about her new novel,…
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Happy New Year! Here’s wishing everyone a joyful, healthy, happy, book-filled 2021 I’m so looking forward to sharing the journey of the coming year with all of you– and piles of books, of course. Over the past couple of weeks, while I’ve been largely off-line with my family, I’ve discovered a new to me 1970s…
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I have not quite wrapped my head around the fact that we’re just one week away from Christmas– although the snow we had in New York this week certainly set the scene properly! With the snow falling, it seemed like a good time for some comfort reads: Mary Stewart’s Touch Not the Cat, involving telepathy…
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