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Autumn is the perfect time to read my In The Shadow of The Apennines
Coming off back-to-back weeekend visits to teh tiny Abruzzo town of Ovindoli, the model for my fictional town of Marsican in my novel In The Shadow of The Apennines, I was struck by all the beautiful autumn colors. Although I love life in Rome, I do miss enjoying the changing leaves and the crispness of…
Read MoreLooking for a spooky read? Try my Rome’s Last Noble Palace
I don’t generally write Halloween-appropriate fiction. My novels are mostly contemporary or historical women’s fiction. But when I wrote my dual timeline novel set it Rome, I chose to have a ghostly presence unite my two protagonists living in a Roman palazzo over a century apart. And I’ve heard from many readers – and read…
Read MoreMy May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn wanted to hang out in a Madrid literary cafe
When I was recently in Madrid, I couldn’t pass over the chance to take my latest novel, May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn, to visit this famed Madrid literary café, the Gran Café de Gijón. This café was opened in 1888, by Gumersindo Gómez, an Austrian-born Spaniard from northern Spain. This café became an…
Read MoreExcited to have a BookBub deal today on my Dark Blue Waves!
My ebook Dark Blue Waves is available on BookBub for $0.99 – 0.99 pence – 0.99 euro cents – 0.99 Canadian cents on Amazon and Kobo for a limited time! Subscribe to BookBub for free to access amazing ebook deals from your favorite authors. Go to the link here to snag Dark Blue Waves before…
Read MoreSelecting short stories from our submissions to Feisty Deeds III
I am very excited to be a co-editor of the Feisty Deeds anthologies dedicated to women’s fiction and historical fiction. We have published Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women and Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews. Both collections are well worth exploring – historical fictions by a wide range of authors…
Read MoreTaking my May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn to visit Todi
My latest release, May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn, is the third in my Three Coins series. While the first in the series took place mostly in Rome, the second and third in the series are set primarily in the lovely hilltown of Todi, in Italy’s Umbria region. The story is centered around an…
Read MoreHave library card, will travel
I’m always thrilled to return to New York, and one of the (many) advantages of my time in New York is whipping out my library card and having the chance to choose between 53 million books spread out across 92 New York Public Libraries across the five burroughs. My husband is an historian, and he’s…
Read MoreJoining the Bookouture Book Tour for The Girl Who Took Flight
I’m excited to join the Bookouture Book Tour for The Girl Who Took Flight, part of The Airline Girls series. I’m pleased to be able to help promote Lizzie Page’s newest novel during its release week. As a devotee of travel myself, it’s fun to read this series set in those early, glamorous days of…
Read MoreSummer is perfect for short stories…
This week, I was finalizing a short story. I am one of five co-editors of the Feisty Deeds anthology – historical fictional tales of women around the world and across centuries. In addition to my editorial duties shaping the collection, I’m also a contributing author. Since submissions open in August, I needed to get that…
Read MoreFeisty Deeds II on the Book Lovers’ Companion podcast
Super exciting to be back on the wonderful Book Lovers’ Companion podcast with my fabulous fellow Feisty Deeds editors and one of my favorite bookish podcast hosts, Edith from Vienna. Suh a treat to appear with my fellow editors Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christy Matheson, Elaine Schroller and Kay Smith-Blum! We discuss with Edith the highs (and…
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