Lauren Willig

Happy Friday, all! I’ve been deep in revisions for the Manhattan Well Murder book (coming your way, hopefully with title, in January 2025!) so mostly I’ve been reading my own manuscript.  Repeatedly.  But for sanity’s sake, I did carve out some time to read other peoples’ books, starting with Kate Racculia’s Bellweather Rhapsody, a mystery…

Happy Friday, all– and happy October! To try to make it feel more like October, I started this week with one of the books on my Halloween list: Carol Goodman’s The Bones of the Story, in which the alums of a writing program return to their upstate college and find themselves, snowbound, being murdered one…

Happy Saturday, all! Apologies for being a day behind– I’ve been deep in research material for the next book and emerged with surprise to find I was two centuries away and a day late for Reading Round-Up. When I haven’t been living in the 1790s and early 1800s, I had the fun of finishing up…

Happy Friday, all! Once again, I’ve spent the week busy with research for the new book (on which more later).  But when I haven’t been reading monographs with many footnotes, I tumbled back into the familiar old realm of 1990s Sherlock Holmes spin-offs: namely, Carole Nelson Douglas’s Irene Adler and Laurie King’s Mary Russell. I…

Happy Friday, all! I apologize for a very long Reading Round Up hiatus!  What was meant to be just a week or two away from my website turned into… the whole summer.  In that time, I was finishing up the Manhattan Well Murder book (now with my editor!) and huddling with Beatriz and Karen over…

Happy Friday, all! It’s been a mixed reading week for me.  It started off brilliantly with the swashbuckling Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, in which a semi-retired 12th century female pirate must emerge from seclusion, reassemble her crew, and battle the supernatural when her family is threatened.  It’s the best possible mix of Raphael Sabatini, Sinbad…

Happy Friday, all! In between preschool graduation and trying to wrangle Alexander Hamilton into cooperating in my new book, I finally got around to one of the books I’ve been looking forward to: Garth Nix’s The Sinister Booksellers of Bath. In this follow-up to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, our heroine Susan must fight an…

Happy Friday, all! This week has been a blur of January 1800 and my kids’ end of year school activities (I’ve been trying not to confuse the two, but it’s hard sometimes– does Aaron Burr need cupcake mix brought in to school by Wednesday?  Or possibly Alexander Hamilton needs a turquoise shirt for Field Day…

Happy Friday, all! Despite being very immersed in the writing of the new book– and the research that goes with it!  I’ve spent the day wallowing in inventories of all the furniture and kitchen things in Aaron Burr’s Richmond Hill in 1797– I managed to wrangle some time this week to read Grady Hendrix’s How…