Book of the Month!
I am so thrilled to announce that The English Wife is a Book of the Month Club selection for December! It makes me so happy to see The English Wife there in such good company. And check out this fun infographic the Book of the Month Club people made! The English Wife will be making…
Read MoreMonday Give Away Returns!
I’ve been cleaning out my bookshelves, which means… it’s time to bring back Monday Give Away! For this Monday, I give you Michelle Moran’s Madame Tussaud, a look at the French Revolution through the eyes of the famed worker in wax. Here’s the official blurb: The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy December! There’s something about that post-Thanksgiving lull (and working on revisions) that just calls for comfort reading. For me, that means mysteries and British chick lit. I dipped into Laurie King’s Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series with A Monstrous Regiment of Women and A Letter of Mary, in the latter of which one of my…
Read MoreENGLISH WIFE Holiday Pre-Order
Small Business Saturday may be over, but it’s always time to be grateful to the independent bookstores in our lives! I owe special thanks to FoxTale Book Shoppe, which has made it possible to give the gift of The English Wife these holidays. If you order from FoxTale now, your giftee will be sent a…
Read MoreTHE OTHER DAUGHTER– On Sale Now!
Need a break from turkey prep? Come join me in the nightclubs of Jazz Age London with Rachel Woodley and the enigmatic gossip columnist Simon Montfort. For a limited time, the e-version of The Other Daughter is $1.99! The best bit? In the back of the new e-book of The Other Daughter is a preview…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
There’s something about crisp fall weather and new (or new to me) books that just go together. This week, I’ve dipped into: — Laurie King’s Pirate King. I leapt over several intervening books to get to this one, but how could any lifelong Pirates of Penzance fan resist the lure of Pirates AND Mary Russell?…
Read MoreHistorical Fiction Panel, December 13th, NYC
Will you be in New York on December 13th? Come join the Historical Dream Team at Shakespeare & Co! I’m so excited to be joining Fiona Davis, Camille Di Maio, Lynda Loigman, Alyson Richman, and Sally Koslow to discuss history, fiction, inspiration, and why historical fiction matters so much today. (Because I always wanted to…
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When the weather gets crisp and the sky begins to go gray at four, it makes me think– well, yes, of London, but also of the New York of twenty-odd years ago, the scarred dark woodwork and nubby blue chairs of my school’s library, and the books I read in those chairs: Mary Stewart, Victoria…
Read MoreGive the Gift of THE ENGLISH WIFE
The English Wife may not come out until January, but it still makes an excellent present for the holidays! Here’s how… If you pre-order it from FoxTale Book Shoppe, a card will be sent to the recipient in December telling them that a signed copy of The English Wife has been reserved in their name.…
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My Halloween treat this year was re-reading Simone St. James’s The Broken Girls, which was, impossibly, even better on a second read. I never thought I’d love anything as much as Simone St. James’s 1920s ghost stories (Because, 1920s. And ghost stories. Enough said.), but this modern/1950s dual timeline story is even better. It comes…
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