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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Apr 262 min read
New Books Network Interview: Ruth Reichl
New Books Network interview with Ruth Reichl, about "The Paris Novel"
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Mar 222 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
Feb 93 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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Jan 263 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 53 min read
Writing Plans for 2024
A look at my writing plans for 2024, as well as other book and editing news
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cplesley
Dec 15, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Isa Arsén
New Books Network interview with Isa Arsén, whose debut novel Shoot the Moon looks at the Apollo Space Program
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Dec 1, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Alice Sherman Simpson
New Books Network interview with Alice Sherman Simpson, author of The Winthrop Agreement, about a young woman in early 20th century NYC
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Oct 20, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Stephanie Cowell
New Books Network interview with author Stephanie Cowell about her latest historical novel, The Boy in the Rain
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Oct 6, 20235 min read
Fall 2023 Bookshelf
List of novels on my Fall 2023 Bookshelf, all recent historical fiction or historical mystery, set in the 19th and 20th centuries
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cplesley
Sep 22, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Louise Hare
New Books Network interview with Louise Hare, author of the Canary Club mysteries and other novels
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cplesley
Sep 8, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Andrew Varga
New Books Network interview with Andrew Varga, author of the YA series A Jump in Time
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cplesley
Aug 25, 20233 min read
New Books Network Interview: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
New Books Network interview with Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, author of "The Witch and the Tsar," a historical fantasy set in 1500s Russia
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Jul 21, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Jennifer Savran Kelly
New Books Network interview with author Jennifer Savran Kelly about her novel Endpapers
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Jul 14, 20234 min read
Bookshelf, Summer 2023
Books I have read that are due out in the summer of 2023, as well as those on my bookshelf for reading before September.
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cplesley
Jul 7, 20233 min read
New Books Network Interview: Ginny Kubitz Moyer
Recap of my New Books Network interview with Ginny Kubitz Moyer, whose debut novel "The Seeing Garden" appeared in May 2023.
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cplesley
Jun 23, 20233 min read
New Books Network Interview: Anna Lee Huber
More information about my New Books Network interview with Anna Lee Huber, author of historical fiction featuring Lady Darby & Verity Kent
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Jun 14, 20232 min read
New Books Network Interview: Katherine Beutner
New Books Network interview with Katharine Beutner, author of the historical suspense novel Killingly
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