THE OTHER DAUGHTER– in paperback on Tuesday!
If you’re like me and tend to wait for the paperback… the paperback of The Other Daughter is heading your way! My author’s copies arrived on the doorstep last week: Don’t they look snazzy? Here’s the official blurb: Raised by her widowed mother in genteel poverty in an isolated English village, for the past six…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Happy July! I’ve mostly been researching the next book– about which I’m staying mum for the moment– so much of what I’ve been reading won’t appear here just yet. On the fiction front, though, I’ve stumbled upon a few new to me books and authors, including: — Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven, a novel…
Read MoreEMERALD RING en Français
On 21 Juillet, The Deception of the Emerald Ring will be making its debut en français! You can find it under the title L’Imposture de l’Alliance Émeraude. When I got the news, I did some counting on my fingers and it dawned on me that, as of a few months from now, it will be…
Read MoreLibrary Donations!
In the middle of a mystery bundle give away post on Facebook the other day, I included a side comment about books for libraries or other charities. The response was overwhelming. (Thanks, all!) So I’m making this post the Official Library Donation Spot. I would be delighted to see all my author copies flutter away…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
When I’m working on the end of a book, I need books like a diver needs his oxygen tank. And not just any books. Series work best. Series entirely unrelated to what I’m currently writing work best of all. I got through the end of That Summer with Laurie King’s Kate Martinelli mysteries, The Other…
Read MoreHappy 10th Anniversary to the Word Wenches!
There’s been one drooping and one auspicious eye over at the Word Wenches…. As some of you may have heard, just as the Word Wenches were kicking off their tenth anniversary celebration last week, one of the Wenches, the incomparable Jo Beverley, shuffled off this mortal coil. Although “shuffle” is absolutely the wrong word here.…
Read MoreIf You Like….
Since I’ve been deep in the writing cave, the wonderful Rachel very kindly offered to take up the slack by writing a brand new “If You Like” post– and may I just say how delighted I was when she offered and how even more delighted I was once I read it? Here, without further preamble,…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Work in Progress
I’m in the final stretch of the currently untitled next stand alone novel– which is why things have been so quiet here on the website. But, to break up the wait, here’s a small outtake from the work in progress. As you may have noticed, my characters tend to talk. A lot. I absolutely hate…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
I’ll be heading back into the writing cave in a moment (send good writing vibes, all!), but it’s been a banner reading week, beginning with Deanne Gist’s Tiffany Girl, which reminds me, in the best possible way, of the young adult historical fiction I used to read back when: a coming of age story and…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Most of my reading this week has been of the contest judging variety, but I did seize the opportunity to read two other books: — Kristan Higgins’s crossover into women’s fiction, If You Only Knew, was the bright spot of an otherwise rainy week. Told from the viewpoints of two sisters whose lives are crumbling…
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