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New Kirkus review for Easter at The Three Coins Inn
In preparing for my next novel’s release on December 6th, I’ve been receiving a lot of editorial reviews. My next novel, Easter at The Three Coins Inn, is a follow-up to the first novel I published, Three Coins, and part of a new series (I’m well into the third installment, which I plan on publishing…
Read MoreHistorical Novel Society 2024 – Don’t make me go home!
This is my second time at the wonderful UK edition of the Historical Novel Society. Held every two years in the UK, this year the conference was held in the spectacular Dartington Hall in Devon, England. I also attended the last UK Conference, Historical Novel Society 2022 in Durham, England. The UK conferences do an…
Read MorePreparing Easter at The Three Coins Inn for early reviews
So exciting … I am writing my first series! I’ve decided to turn my début novel, Three Coins, into a series. In Easter at The Three Coins Inn, I’ve picked up the story four years after my story left off – to follow my three unlikely friends, Emma, Tiffany and Annarita, after they cemented a…
Read MoreNew collection of short stories of Daring Women – benefiting a great cause
On 8 June for Women’s Fiction Day, I joined twenty-two women’s fiction and historical fiction authors to release our new anthology, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. Aside from the excitement of a book launch, this project is even more special to us because all proceeds go to fund the Women’s Fiction Writers Association…
Read MoreTwo new book awards for my short story collection!
So incredibly excited to receive two new book awards for my short story collection, Drink Wine and Be Beautiful. I recently learned that my collection won both the 2024 American Legacy Book Award, Finalist – Short Stories and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2024, Finalist. This means that my short story collection has now…
Read MoreMy April 2024 reads
April brought another fabulous – and varied – month month in books. I started the month off with a classic author, Elizabeth Gaskell, a friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens, who published her novels serially in his literary magazines. I had never read her novella of the Salem Witch Trials and enjoyed this interesting recounting…
Read MoreNew BookFest Award for Rome’s Last Noble Palace!
So pleased that my latest novel, Rome’s Last Noble Palace, has just won its sixth literary award! I am very pleased that my dual timeline novel won Third Place in the BookFest 2024 Award in the Women’s Fiction – Historical Fiction category. I had so much fun writing this dual timeline novel (1890s and…
Read MoreBeach reading season 2024 officially begins!
I had a lovely mid-week day off last week and decided to take a hop down to seaside Sperlonga. I love visiting this pretty beach town. Heck, much of my first novel, Three Coins, was set here. In that novel, three women meet and become unlikely friends when they are all in Sperlonga off-season. Some…
Read MoreMy next novel underway…
I’m so excited to be one step closer to publishing my next novel, which I plan to release this fall. I just received feedback from (wonderful) beta readers and prepared my manuscript to send to my editor. When she returns with those edits, I’ll take another crack at it before getting it to my proofreader,…
Read MoreMy March 2024 reads
Another month accompanied by another great stack of books. My stack was – ahem – a little slimmer this month because I had to read my own work. I’m revising my next novel before it goes to my editor, to be released this autumn. As any writer will tell you, reading novels by other authors…
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