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Feisty Deeds II launch – and Editors’ interview
Sooooo excited that tomorrow our new anthology, Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews, will be launched. You can order your copy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple Books. This is a fabulous collection of stories by twenty-five talented authors, with stories spanning centuries and the globe. As one of the…
Read MoreRecycle! What authors can learn from artists
Last weekend, I was in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, France. It was a small but interesting collection, with a few artworks by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) I’d only seen in textbooks, but never in person. The most well known in the collection was La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi (1826), depicting the attempted…
Read MoreNew Prairies book review for Feisty Deeds II
Excited we just received our first editorial review for Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews. Hoping this is the first of many positive editorial reviews. If you want to see what The Prairies Book Review had to say about our collection, read the full review below. A sweeping, intimate, and beautifully told…
Read MoreFeisty Deeds II up on NetGalley – seeking reviewers!
How exciting! Our second edition of the Feisty Deeds anthology is now up on NetGalley for early reviews! Feisty Deeds II : Historical Tales of Batches and Brews is seeking early reviewers. So get on over to NetGalley and request your copy today! I am one of the five co-editors of this collection (and a contributing…
Read MoreA look back at Feisty Deeds : Historical Fictions of Daring Women
As my “Feisty Editors” and I are hard at work preparing our anthology Feisty Deeds II for placement on NetGalley and (lots of!) early reviews, I thought it was a good time to remind readers about Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. A recipient of an impressive six book awards, this historical fiction anthology brings…
Read MoreMy In The Shadow of The Apennines is on sale
For the past few years, my author friend Elaine Aucoin Schroller and I have run sales on our World War I novels. We do this for a week, honoring both Indie Author’s Day on 5 November and Armistice Day on 11 November. You can pick up my In The Shadow of The Apennines and Elaine’s…
Read MoreSeeking a ghostly tale for Halloween? Rome’s Last Noble Palace (on sale)
Happy Halloween! ‘Tis the ghostly season, and I hope you have spooky reading to accompany you this holiday season. My Rome’s Last Noble Palace is on sale: Two women. Two different centuries. One attic room My dual timeline novel set in Rome of 1896 and near present is having a 99 cent BookBub promotion on Sunday…
Read MoreBook launch tour for The Letter from the Island
I’m pleased to be joining the Bookouture launch tour for Rose Alexander’s latest novel, The Letter from the Island. I enjoyed this dual timeline novel set in modern-day and WWII-era Crete, Greece. Dual timeline novels are a genre I love, and especially a novel like this in which an elderly woman is looking back upon…
Read MoreNovel locations for In The Shadow of The Apennines
I don’t need much of an excuse to get out to the mountains near Rome. Years ago, I got a small place out in the mountains of Abruzzo, in the town of Ovindoli, and this is a place I enjoy escaping to for relaxing weekends out in the fresh mountain air. I love it so…
Read MoreJoining the book tour for The Lost Garden launch
Very pleased to join the launch tour for Angela Petch’s newest novel, The Lost Garden. Like me, Petch is an expat who lives in Italy, so I know I’m in good hands for her Italian tales. I enjoyed Petch’s latest novel, a coming of age tale set in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region in the 1930s.…
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