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cplesley
5 days ago4 min read
A New Year of Interviews
A sneak peek at author interviews planned for January 2025, with Fiona Davis, Joseph Finder, Poppy Kuroki, and Kate Mosse
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cplesley
Dec 20, 20241 min read
New Books Network Interview: Suzanne Allain
New Books Network interview with Suzanne Allain, acclaimed author of Regency-era historical romance
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cplesley
Nov 22, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Monica Chenault-Kilgore
New Books Network interview with Monica Chenault-Kilgore, whose historical novel The Jewel of the Blues just came out from Graydon House
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cplesley
Oct 25, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Vanessa Kelly
New Books Network interview with Vanessa Kelly, whose "Murder in Highbury" came out with Kensington Books in October 2024.
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cplesley
Oct 4, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Christina Dodd
New Books Network interview with Christina Dodd, whose A Daughter of Fair Verona, appeared with Kensington Books in July 2024
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cplesley
Sep 20, 20245 min read
Bookshelf, Fall 2024
Fall 2024 Bookshelf: Suzanne Allain, Monica Chenault-Kilgore, Christina Dodd, Vanessa Kelly, Mimi Matthews, Alyson Richman, and Elif Shafak
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cplesley
Sep 12, 20243 min read
New Books Network Interview: Madeline Martin
New Books Network interview with Madeline Martin, whose latest World War II novel, The Booklover's Library, has come out from Hanover Square
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cplesley
Aug 30, 20246 min read
Interview with Andrew Varga
Interview with Andrew Varga, whose latest Jump in Time novel (YA), set on the Eurasian steppe, has just come out from Imbrifex Books
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cplesley
Aug 23, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Heather Redmond
New Books Network interview with Heather Redmond about her latest historical mystery featuring Mary Shelley and the Godwin family
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cplesley
Jul 12, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Eve J. Chung
New Books Network interview with Eve J. Chung, whose "Daughters of Shandong" explores the escape of three abandoned women from Mao's China
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cplesley
Jun 21, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Joanna Lowell
New Books Network interview with historical romance author Joanna Lowell, whose latest novel, A Shore Thing, has just appeared in print.
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cplesley
May 31, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: A. Engels
New Books Network interview with A. Engels, author of A Fool for an Heir, set during the reign of Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow
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cplesley
Apr 26, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Ruth Reichl
New Books Network interview with Ruth Reichl, about "The Paris Novel"
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cplesley
Apr 5, 20244 min read
Bookshelf, Spring 2024
List of novels on my bookshelf for Spring 2024, by Audrey Burges, Eve J. Chung, Judith Lindbergh, Ruth Reichl, and Shaina Steinberg
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cplesley
Mar 22, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Robin Oliveira
New Books Network interview with Robin Oliveira about her latest novel, set in late 19th-century Scotland and Washington Territory
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cplesley
Mar 1, 20242 min read
New Books Network Interview: Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
New Books Network interview with bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Janie Chang about their co-written novel, The Phoenix Crown
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cplesley
Feb 16, 20243 min read
New Books Network Interview: Teresa H. Janssen
New Books Network interview with Teresa H. Janssen, author of The Ways of Water
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cplesley
Feb 9, 20243 min read
Taking Inventory
Inventory of everything I have been doing to clear the decks, much of it associated with writing, so that I can return to my current novel
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cplesley
Jan 26, 20243 min read
New Books Network: Andrea Penrose
New Books Network interview with Andrea Penrose about The Diamond of London, a novel about Lady Hester Stanhope
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cplesley
Jan 12, 20246 min read
Bookshelf, Winter 2024
My bookshelf, Winter 2024: Stephanie Dray, Laurie R. King, Clare McHugh, Andrea Penrose, Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, Deanna Raybourn
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