Weekly Reading Round-Up
The first half of this post was originally meant to go up last week– but the arrival of a small person intervened. So let’s call this fortnightly round-up instead of weekly round-up today? (Also because I just love the word “fortnight”.) I started last week old school, with a murder mystery from the early 80s:…
Read MoreMore Pink on Sale!
It’s the summer of cheap e-Pink! For a limited time, the third book in the Pink Carnation series, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, is available for only $1.99 in e-book. 1803. Ireland. Intrigue. Plots. Spies. And one accidental marriage of inconvenience…. Here’s the official blurb: Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of…
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A large chunk of The English Wife takes place in the unique environment of the Hudson Valley, just about an hour or so out of Manhattan. Having spent a significant portion of my childhood there, I’d always been fascinated by how different upstate New York feels from New England, shaped as it was by the…
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No Gilded Age novel would be complete without a stop in Newport. So, naturally, my characters (and I) had to spend a bit of time there. But when I sat down to make this “If You Like” list, I was surprised by how hard it was to think of books set in Newport in the…
Read MorePink Carnation: $2.99!
They seek him here; they seek him there… and, in e-book, the Pink Carnation is currently $2.99 everywhere! I’m not quite sure how long this price drop will last (the author is always the last to know), but, for the moment, the first book in the Pink Carnation series is $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, Kobo,…
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I’ve been having such a good run of new books recently. On tap for this week was: — Francine Matthews’s Death in Rough Water, the second of her Nantucket-set Merry Folger mysteries. The more I read this series, the more I love it– particularly the developing relationship between the detective and another character, which reminds…
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Because who doesn’t want to be thinking about January in the middle of July? As the sun blazes overhead, let’s get ready for the season of frost and reading snuggled up in a warm blanket by marking your calendars for the English Wife tour, coming to a bookstore (possibly) near you in January. Here’s what’s…
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Maybe it’s all those postcards of the Eiffel Tower, maybe it comes of watching Gigi at a susceptible age, but there’s just something about Belle Epoque Paris. Even though The English Wife is set largely in New York and London, I couldn’t resist sending my characters on a little excursion to Paris, where they got…
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I had a stack of books I was saving for slightly later in the summer, but couldn’t resist digging into them now. So, this week, I treated myself to: — Amy Poeppel’s Small Admissions (which just came out in paperback), a smart and snarky combination of social satire and coming of age story, in which,…
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As I was gathering up my pictures of the various settings in The English Wife to share with you, it occurred to me that it might be fun to do a bunch of If You Likes to cover the various places involved in the book. So, since this is my Gilded Age book, it made…
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