Weekly Reading Round-Up
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…
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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…
Read MoreSpread the word! It's Author Confidential.
Spreading the word about Author Confidential seems like it ought to be a contradiction in terms. But not when it’s the Bacon Free Library’s annual fundraiser! What it is: a chance to ask your favorite author three questions– and receive a hand-written answer in return! Here’s the official press release: Bacon Free Library Announces ‘Author…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
The final edits on the next novel are IN! So I’ve been rewarding myself with two books I’ve saved for just such an occasion: — Susan Elizabeth Philips’s latest, First Star I See Tonight, which returns us to the world of the Chicago Stars with a former quarterback turned nightclub owner and a scrappy private…
Read More"Yesternight" Winner
The winner of my copy of Yesternight is… … Jessie Clever! (Of Comment #5.) Congrats, Jessie! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Stay tuned for another give away next Monday!
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