One week until Massachusetts!
Next week, I’ll be back in my old Cambridge haunts, signing books at Porter Square Books, the Coop, and Wellesley. — Monday, November 9, 7pm Reading and signing at the Harvard Coop Free and open to the public — Tuesday, November 10, 9:45am Coffee and panel at the Wellesley College Club $27 admission fee, call…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
Sometimes, books pop up just when you’re ready for them: in this case, an ARC of Megan Abbott’s The Fever that I’d forgotten I had and had never quite gotten around to reading. Think The Crucible set in a modern high school, rumors and hysteria and teenagers foaming at the mouth. It’s beautifully done, alternating…
Read MoreMidnight Manzanilla Winners
The winners of the copies of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla are… — Lynda (of Comment #11) — Kari (of Comment #1) — Bernadette (Goodreads Comment #2) Congrats, all! If you email me at willig@post.harvard.edu, I’ll put your books in the mail to you. Happy Halloween!
Read MoreMonday Give Away: MIDNIGHT MANZANILLA
With Halloween on the horizon, what more appropriate for this Monday’s give away than my one and only Halloween book, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla? It’s 1807 and a vampire craze has swept the ton thanks to a novel called The Convent of Orsino— by a Lady. (But who are we kidding? We know…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
There’s been more Galbraith over here! This week, I read the second Cormoran Strike mystery, The Silkworm, in which the detective sets out to track down a missing author, only to find he’s been murdered in the same manner described in the author’s controversial manuscript. Next up, I’m heading over to Paris in the 1920’s…
Read MoreCalling all Catalan speakers!
Among the many, many author copies that I discovered in my move were several copies of The Ashford Affair in Catalan. Do you speak Catalan or know someone who does? If you’d like a Catalan copy of The Ashford Affair, just post in the Comments below or email me at willig@post.harvard.edu.
Read MoreUK Pink Winner!
The winner of the UK editions of the first six Pink Carnation books is… Kristy! (Of Comment #74.) Congrats, Kristy! If you email me at willig@post.harvard.edu and let me know where to send them, I’ll put your books in the mail to you. Thanks so much to everyone for participating! Stay tuned for another give…
Read MoreTeaser Tuesday: Gabrielle Jaouen returns….
Into every stand alone novel, a little Pink must fall. I didn’t really set out to put a Pink Carnation descendant into every stand alone. But, somehow, because my world is such an interwoven one, it always seems to turn out that way. There was Val Vaughn in The Ashford Affair, Nicholas Dorrington in That…
Read MoreMonday Give Away: UK Pink Collection
Just when I think I’ve uncovered the last of the author copies… I opened a box that I’d thought was a care package of books from a friend. It turned out to be another stack of UK Pink books, from the first Pink up through The Mischief of the Mistletoe. There are just enough in…
Read MoreWeekly Reading Round-Up
After a year of mostly re-reads, I’m making a concerted effort to get back in touch with the wider publishing world. This week? Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies, a story about a parent trivia night gone very, very wrong… and everything leading up to the crucial evening. Engaging prose, sympathetic characters, and a complexly constructed…
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