Weekly Reading Round-Up
Happy Friday, all! I apologize for a very long Reading Round Up hiatus! What was meant to be just a week or two away from my website turned into… the whole summer. In that time, I was finishing up the Manhattan Well Murder book (now with my editor!) and huddling with Beatriz and Karen over…
Read MoreVirtual event 7/19 and live one 7/20!
I’m crawling out of my writing cave to announce that I’ll be (briefly) leaving my writing seclusion to take part in not one but two events this week! On Wednesday, July 19th, you can find me at Fresh Fiction’s virtual book club party, where we’ll be discussing– well, whatever you like, really! The event starts…
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Happy Friday, all! It’s been a mixed reading week for me. It started off brilliantly with the swashbuckling Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, in which a semi-retired 12th century female pirate must emerge from seclusion, reassemble her crew, and battle the supernatural when her family is threatened. It’s the best possible mix of Raphael Sabatini, Sinbad…
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Happy Friday, all! In between preschool graduation and trying to wrangle Alexander Hamilton into cooperating in my new book, I finally got around to one of the books I’ve been looking forward to: Garth Nix’s The Sinister Booksellers of Bath. In this follow-up to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, our heroine Susan must fight an…
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Happy Friday, all! This week has been a blur of January 1800 and my kids’ end of year school activities (I’ve been trying not to confuse the two, but it’s hard sometimes– does Aaron Burr need cupcake mix brought in to school by Wednesday? Or possibly Alexander Hamilton needs a turquoise shirt for Field Day…
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Happy Friday, all! Despite being very immersed in the writing of the new book– and the research that goes with it! I’ve spent the day wallowing in inventories of all the furniture and kitchen things in Aaron Burr’s Richmond Hill in 1797– I managed to wrangle some time this week to read Grady Hendrix’s How…
Read MoreLOST SUMMERS OF NEWPORT– Now in Paperback!
I’ve been so busy with Hamilton and Burr and the Manhattan Well Murder that I nearly forgot– the most recent Team W book, The Lost Summers of Newport, is out in paperback today! As a mansion makeover show peels away the layers of a decaying Newport mansion, generations of secrets emerge…. You can learn more…
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Happy Friday, all! Over the course of the week, we hopped from winter straight into summer in NYC, with no spring in between. During the colder part of the week, I read two atmospheric new books, both of which were wins: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries and The Secrets of Hartwood Hall. I adored Emily…
Read MoreThe Winner of the 13th Annual Pinkorama Contest Is….
So many thanks to this year’s Pinkorama participants! It’s always like Christmas crossed with a birthday when your entries arrive in my inbox: the surprise of seeing what you’ve picked to depict this year and the sheer joy of seeing the beauty you’ve made. I am, as always, in utter awe of your peep-craft. This…
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Happy Friday, all! You’d think I should know by now that when Karen White tells me I have to read something that I should listen…. But, no. I waited months and months before picking up The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone, and I’m so glad I did (pick it up, that is, not the waiting…
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