The Three Ws Write Again!
If there’s been some radio silence here on the website recently… it’s because Karen White, Beatriz Williams and I were off at our Top Secret Undisclosed Location thrashing out the outline of the new collaborative novel! How Top Secret was it? Let’s just say that every good lair needs a spooky old tunnel. Also someone…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Sometimes, you just need a fairy tale. This week, I revisited one of my all time favorites, Robin McKinley’s Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast. It’s a beautiful re-telling of Beauty and the Beast– with certain elements in common with the Disney version that followed, like Beauty being a bookworm…
Read MoreThe New Book Has a Title! Say hello to THE ENGLISH WIFE.
The English Wife will be coming your way in January or February of 2018. I don’t have an official blurb yet, but here’s a rough description: January 1899: at a grand Twelfth Night ball in a mansion on the Hudson, Knickerbocker patrician Bayard Van Duyvil pushes his English wife into the river and then stabs…
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It has been a banner book week for me. So good, in fact, that I can’t imagine what I’ll read next. First up? Simone St. James’s The Broken Girls. Here’s the unofficial blurb as relayed to me by Simone: In 1950 Vermont, four lonely girls in a remote boarding school protect each other against the…
Read MoreFORGOTTEN ROOM Winners
The winners of the copies of The Forgotten Room are… … Virginia (of Comment #20) and Jacqueline (of Comment #3)! Congrats, ladies! If you let me know where to send them, I’ll pop your books in the mail to you. Happy reading!
Read MoreHappy Halloween! And Monday Give Away.
Happy Halloween, all! Given the holiday, I feel like I should be offering up a copy of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, aka my one and only Halloween book. But I’m down to my last few Manzanillas and I have a whopping great pile of paperback copies of The Forgotten Room, so… in a…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
It struck me recently that I haven’t read any of my “keeper” books in a while. Not the books that I’ve discovered in the past five years or so that I’ve read and re-read, but the books that have come with me from grade school to college to grad school and so on: The Blue…
Read More"The Visitors" Winner
The winner of the ARC of The Visitors is… Carla! (Of Comment #4.) Congrats, Carla! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. More give aways coming up next Monday!
Read MoreTHE FORGOTTEN ROOM goes paperback!
Now in a sleeker, bolder format, we give you the New York Times and USA Today bestseller… The Forgotten Room paperback, out in stores today! As you can imagine, Beatriz, Karen, and I are all lifting virtual glasses of bubbly. Even better, in three weeks, we’ll be lifting real glasses of bubbly together as we…
Read MoreMonday Give Away
With only a week until Halloween, this week’s give away is another rain-lashed tale of the supernatural– or, in this case, the mythical: an ARC of Simon Sylvester’s The Visitors. Here’s the official blurb: In the tradition of Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks, Simon Sylvester brings an ancient myth to life with this lush, atmospheric…
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