Pinkorama #2: THE ASHPEEP AFFAIR
It’s 1926 and a train is chugging its way into the station in Nairobi. For our second Pinkorama, Carla brings us… The Ashpeep Affair. In this scene, Addie has just traveled from England to Kenya to visit her cousin Bea, and, after coming all that way, she’s not quite sure she actually wants to be…
Read MorePinkorama #1: THAT SUMMER
Or perhaps Peep Summer? For our very first 2017 Pinkorama, Randy brings us a scene from That Summer. It’s the summer of 2009, and Julia, jobless thanks to the recession, has just flown out to London to inspect the house she unexpectedly inherited from a great-aunt she can’t remember. The house holds many surprises for…
Read MoreLast Call for Pinkoramae!
I’ll be accepting submissions for the 7th Annual Pink Carnation Peep Diorama Contest up through midnight tonight! So if you have a last minute Peep inspiration, now’s your chance. You can find the contest description and rules here. The really fun part starts tomorrow! I’ll post each Pinkorama in the order in which I received…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: THE SISTERS OF ALAMEDA STREET
Happy first of May! One of the aspects of historical fiction I love best is getting to experience a place and culture I might never have encountered. In the case of The Sisters of Alameda Street, Ecuador in the 1960s. Here’s the official blurb: A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and…
Read MoreWarwick, NY Literary Festival– Today!
Do you need something to do on a gray Sunday afternoon? Come join me at the first ever Warwick Literary Festival at the Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick, NY! I’ll speaking from 1:00-1:45, followed by a book signing from 2:00-2:45. So if you can’t make the talk, you can still catch me at the…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
The beginning of the week was dark and grim, which, of course, called for dark and grim reading: psychological thrillers with murky covers. I started with Megan Miranda’s All the Missing Girls, a murder mystery written backwards (which shouldn’t work, but somehow does), moved on to Megan Abbott’s You Will Know Me, in which a…
Read MoreTHE FIRE BY NIGHT Winner
The winner of my advance copy of The Fire by Night is… …Christine! (Of Comment #18.) Congrats, Christine! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Stay tuned for a brand new give away coming up on Monday!
Read MoreWarwick Literary Festival– this Sunday, 4/30!
Come one, come all, to the very first ever Warwick Literary Festival at the Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick, NY! Here’s the official description: The Warwick Literary Festival is a celebration of books, authors and reading. It is presented by the Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick, NY, which was named Best Small Library…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: THE FIRE BY NIGHT
I tend to be a rather picky reader, but every now and again, a book just grabs me. Teresa Messineo’s The Fire by Night was one of those books. Here’s the official blurb: A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It’s been a mystery/suspense/thriller week for me, starting with Megan Miranda’s The Perfect Stranger, a psychological thriller set in Western Pennsylvania, where a journalist takes refuge as a schoolteacher after being disgraced and discredited back in Boston. But where has her roommate gone? And why has someone attacked a woman with (almost) her face? So…
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