MISTLETOE Winner
The winner of the signed copy of The Mischief of the Mistletoe is… … Heather! (Of Comment #4.) Congrats, Heather! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. More fun coming up soon!
Read MoreMonday Give Away: MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE!
Happy December! In honor of the season, today’s give away will be… a signed copy of The Mischief of the Mistletoe! Here’s the official blurb: Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Coming Next
I don’t have exact dates yet, but here’s the rough schedule for my upcoming book releases: — July, 2017: a personal essay in A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light, a non-fiction anthology about Paris, edited by the lovely Eleanor Brown. — January, 2018: THE ENGLISH WIFE, hardcover. —…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Thanksgiving! (Or really, Happy Black Friday!) I was in an epic mood this week, so I revisited a very old favorite: Joan Wolf’s Born of the Sun, about a sixth century Saxon king of Wessex and his British wife, Niniane. There are court intrigues, family strife, battles– and, of course, a wonderful love story,…
Read MoreTHE CHILDREN Winner
The winner of Ann Leary’s The Children is… … Maria! (Of Comment #14.) Congrats, Maria! If you let me know where to send it, I’ll put your book in the mail to you. Wishing everyone a wonderful, safe, happy Thanksgiving!
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: A Paris All Your Own!
If you can’t go to Paris, Paris will be coming to you this summer, in the anthology A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light. I’m so thrilled to get to revisit one of my favorite cities in such wonderful company! Here is the tres snazzy cover: Et voila! The…
Read MoreMonday Give Away
There’s been a bit of a give away gap– apologies! To make it up to you, I have a particularly good one for you today: a hardcover copy of Ann Leary’s The Children. Here’s the official blurb: From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
This week, in between working on the outline for the new Team W book with Beatriz Williams and Karen White, I treated myself to two new books: Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Sherry Thomas’s A Study In Scarlet Women. Although very different, both are takes on earlier stories: Uprooted builds off previous generations of fairy tales…
Read MoreThe 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…
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