Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday– and happy almost Valentine’s Day! Do you ever have those weeks where you can’t remember for the life of you what you were reading at the beginning of it? That’s me right now. But I can tell you that I rediscovered Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence. I’d forgotten just what fun they were…
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Happy Friday, all! I’ve got brownies baking in the oven, making the whole house smell like chocolate, which seems just about right for a Friday, doesn’t it? I’ve been visiting all sorts of happy comfort reads this week, starting with a re-read of Louise Miller’s The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, about a Boston…
Read MoreAsk Me Anything!
For the month of February you can find me live on Facebook and Instagram (@laurenwillig) every Wednesday at noon! Join me tomorrow, February 3rd, as I live-stream from the snowy Hudson Valley to discuss everything from coffee flavors to the Pink Carnation character who almost made it into Band of Sisters. Do you have questions…
Read MorePink Carnation Read Along: Month 1
It’s time to plunge into the world of the Pink Carnation with a year long Pink Carnation Read Along! Brush off your copy of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, pull out your brightest pink sweater, your Regency garb, or your comfiest sheep slippers (because, you know, Wooliston), or all of the above, make…
Read MoreA 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,…
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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,…
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