By the blogs: Tour Wrap-Up and Last Chance for Giveaway
The blog tour for the audiobook version of The Typewriter Girl wraps up at the end of August. It’s been a whirlwind of reviews and posts from some really wonderful blogs–I’m really grateful for the readers and bloggers who have participated. And the fact that it went so smoothly while I’ve been sick and sticking to a schedule of sleep-medicate-work-repeat is all to the credit of the lovely Amy Bruno at Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours. Some of the tour links: Explaining why I love grand hotels at Historical Tapestry. My dad told us kids all hotel rooms look alike...
Read MoreToday’s Unforgettable Adventure: The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee
10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures. It’s Betsey the typewriter girl’s turn in the giveaway, and there are two ways to enter to win The Typewriter Girl and the grand prize of all ten book: Subscribe and confirm to my blog (see the sidebar to the right), or like my Facebook page. Enter at both places to double your winning chances; check out all the authors’ links below for even more ways to enter. A little about Betsey’s adventure: “But did you know it is almost the best job in London a girl could hope for?” That question of Betsey Dobson’s turned up...
Read MoreToday’s Unforgettable Adventure: Summerset Abbey: Spring Awakening, by T.J. Brown
The 10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures giveaway continues today with T.J. Brown. With every post between August 1 and August 13, you can register to win this book and the grand prize of all 10 books. We’ll announce winners on August 14. You may enter today’s giveaway and the grand prize at T.J.’s blog, http://teribrownbooks.com/tjblog/. You’ll find links to all the authors below–follow any of them to keep up with the latest adventures. And now, T.J. on WWI Women and Their Flying Machines: Come Josephine in my flying machine Going up she goes! Up she...
Read MoreToday’s Unforgettable Adventure: THE ASHFORD AFFAIR, by Lauren Willig
10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures. With every “Today’s Adventure” post between August 1 and August 13, you can register to win the featured book and the grand prize of all 10 books. We’ll announce winners on August 14. You may enter today’s contest at Lauren’s website, http://www.laurenwillig.com/news/contest.php , OR by liking her Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/LaurenWillig. Find links to all the authors below–follow any of them to keep up with the latest adventures. Here’s Lauren: “They really lived, didn’t they?” says my modern heroine...
Read MoreToday’s Unforgettable Adventure: Let It Be Me, by Kate Noble
It starts today! 10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures. With every “Today’s Adventure” post between August 1 and August 13, you can register to win the featured book and the grand prize of all 10 books. We’ll announce winners on August 14. You may enter today’s contest by going tO Kate’s Facebook page and liking it. Find links to all the authors below–follow any of them to keep up with the latest adventures. Here’s Kate: Everyone needs the chance to be new, at one time or other. The chance to experience different sights and sounds, the ability to be open to...
Read MoreGiveaway: 10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures
This giveaway starts August 1st, so if you’re here early, be sure to come back. We’ve got some fabulous reads to share with you, some from best-selling authors you already know, and some we hope will be new favorites for you. I’ll post updates here on the blog from August 1 to August 14, so if you’ve found this post, you’re in the right place. In the meantime, check out these gorgeous covers to see what’s up for...
Read MoreMrs. Hughes’ Scandalous Toaster and the Unexpected Controversy of Other Commonplace Things
Maggie Smith’s scene-terminating quips aside, the most delightful moments of a Downton Abbey episode occur when a character squints, bewildered and curious, at some mundane object or concept: Carson the butler ranks an electric toaster alongside the ordeal of “sheltering a dangerous revolutionary.” The Dowager Countess wonders, “What is a weekend?” And suddenly, a fourteen-dollar kitchen appliance and two alarm clock-free days become exotic to us, too. New Yorker blogger Alexandra Lange notes that when it comes to technology on Downton Abbey, it’s the female characters who are the...
Read MoreWriters Who Meet Readers
If I really knew the song “People Who Need People,” I’d be humming it right now. However, I only know that the song goes on to say “…are the luckiest people.” And the reason I’m thinking of this song is Pam. And I don’t really know Pam, either, but in a funny way, I feel I know something about her heart. At the booksigning at the RT Booklover’s Convention, I found myself seated near the amazing and legendary Mary Balogh, whose books I have loved and even studied. I came into the signing with plenty of hopes and...
Read MoreIn honor of Julia Quinn: The Bridgerton Ode
Out today: A new Bridgerton epilogue by Julia Quinn (The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After), and in observance, I’m sharing a poem I wrote about the series. Yeah, that’s right. Serious fangirl stuff, writing a poem. When He Was Wicked was one of the first romances-from-the-actual-romance-section that I read. I didn’t know many authors in the genre then, and often chose randomly, not even reading the back cover blurb. I do remember reading the dedication in WHWW (something like, “For Paul, even though he thought it should be called Love in the Time of...
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