Women’s History Month Extravaganza
In which Beatriz Williams and I take over the Romance of Reading Facebook page! We’ll be talking women, history, women in history, fiction, and women in historical fiction. (You may notice some overlaps here….) Come join us in discussing your favorite historical women and historical fiction! We’ve got give aways and goodies galore. Beatriz…
Read MoreHistorical Fiction Fan Fest
Whenever my editor and I meet, we wind up having epic discussions about historical fiction. The books we loved, the books we hated, the books that shaped us; what we used to read, what we read now, the way the genre’s changed and where we’d like to see it go. There’s always such joy in…
Read MoreTHE SUMMER COUNTRY Goodreads Give Away!
Thanks to my very generous publisher, there are one hundred shiny advance copies of my upcoming book, The Summer Country, up for grabs on Goodreads! To enter, just head over to Goodreads. Here’s the official description: The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost…
Read MoreFort Myers, FL– Today!
If you’re in Southwest Florida, come join me and Karen White at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival! You can find us– today!– on the Fort Myers Public Library campus. We’ll be doing our full song and dance routine at 2:30 (expect sheep jokes– and possibly a few hints about what we’re writing next), followed by…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
There’s nothing like finding a new (to you) author whose voice you love. This week, I devoured the second book in Lucy Parker’s London Celebrity contemporary romance series, Pretty Face— and immediately ordered Book Three. Now there’s incentive for me to finish the chapter I’m working on, so I can use the rest of my…
Read MoreFlorida, here we come!
Karen White and I are flying south into the sunshine! Come join us at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival this Saturday, March 2nd. You can find us doing our whole song and dance routine at 2:30, with a book signing to follow at 3:30, or you can also pop by for an informal chat in…
Read MoreTonight: NYC! Yorkville Library, 5:30pm
There’s nothing like your childhood library, is there? When I was thirteen or so, I had squash lessons on Monday afternoons. Instead of heading straight home after, I would go to the Yorkville Branch of the New York Public Library and wait for my mother to meet me there on her way home from work. …
Read MoreTHE ENGLISH WIFE– Now in Paperback!
Why, hello there, The English Wife! Now with a new, floppier cover, and a new lower price– but the same prose inside! The English Wife paperback is available wherever books are sold. (I’ve always loved that phrase.) If you happen to see some English Wife paperbacks out and about in the wild, snap a picture and post it…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, I read Lucy Parker’s Act Like It, the first in her London Celebrities contemporary romance series. Where has this book been all my life? Actually, I can tell you the exact answer to that. On my nighttable, in a pile of books sent by my college roommate, the world’s best roommate and book…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I can’t tell you what I’ve been reading, unfortunately, because it’s something I have deeply mixed feelings about– and when I can’t say something positive, or at least neutral, about a book, I’d rather not say anything at all. Because I know someone else (or many someones!) will love that same book that annoys me,…
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