Weekly Reading Round-Up
Digging out from the book pile, I finally read Susanna Kearsley’s Bellewether, which goes back and forth between a historic house on Long Island in the present day and the same house during the French and Indian Wars. It reminded me a great deal of her The Shadowy Horses (anyone else a Shadowy Horses fan…
Read MorePinkorama #4: “Showdown at Peep’s Tomb”
Last, but not least, for our fourth and last Pinkorama, Candace and Cassandra bring us “Showdown at Peep’s Tomb”, from The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. This year we present Chapter 31 of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. The scene is Peep’s Tomb in Hyderabad, a great spot with a hidey-hole filled with truth, treason,…
Read MorePinkorama #3: “So Many Peeps Lost”
Our third Pinkorama comes to you from the team of Colleen and Nick White, who bring us “So Many Peeps Lost”, from The Peep Ocean. It’s that fatal day in May, 1915. The Lusitania, struck by a torpedo, sinks just off the coast of Ireland. Caroline Hochstetter and Tessa Fairweather cling to a ripped lifeboat…
Read MorePinkorama #2: the Peep Wars Bedroom
For our second Pinkorama of the season, the mother-daughter team, Carla and Rowan, bring us… John Langford’s Peep Wars Bedroom from The Glass Ocean! It’s 2013 and non-fiction writer Sarah Blake is desperate for a story– so desperate she crosses the Pond to England to interrogate John Langford, the descendant of Lusitania survivor, Robert Langford.…
Read MorePinkorama #1: “The Passion of the Peeple Plumeria”
I am delighted to present the 2019 Pinkoramae! The first of this year’s amazing Peep creations comes from the sister team of Laura Parker and Carrie Morrell, who are proud to present The Passion of the Peeple Plumeria, or, Billiard Balls on Cue, from Pink Carnation Book X, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria. In this…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
You know how it is, when you recommend a book to a friend and then just have to re-read it yourself? Well, that was me this week. My best friend was looking for something like Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series or Laura Resnick’s Esther Diamond: smart and snarky and supernatural. And it belatedly occurred…
Read MorePinkorama Deadline Extended to Sunday
Do you have Peeps and an empty weekend? There’s still a chance to enter this year’s Pinkorama! Since it belatedly dawned on me that I will be at a book festival all weekend, and thus unable to put up pictures of Peep creations on the website, I’m extending the deadline to midnight on Sunday. You…
Read MoreHere’s a bit of THE SUMMER COUNTRY….
One of the hardest parts of authordom is waiting the months and months (and sometimes years) to share what you’ve written. Which is why I’m so excited to share with you the first two chapters of my upcoming book, The Summer Country! You can find the first two chapters, beautifully formatted by my publisher, here.…
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To whoever recommended Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions companions to me, I don’t know whether to thank you or glower at you. (Freya, that was you, wasn’t it?) I gobbled up The Silent Companions in one night, which seemed like a good idea at the time, because the idea of waiting another day to find…
Read MoreProvidence, RI– Saturday, 4/27
I’m so delighted to be part of the first ever Providence Book Festival next Saturday, April 27th! There’s a jam-packed schedule of author events and talks, featuring everything from the illustrator of the Paddington Bear books to authors dishing on which books/poetry by other people they wish they’d written. From 1:15 to 2:00, I’ll be…
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