10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures. With every Today’s Adventure post between August 1 and August 13, you can register to win the featured book and the grand prize of all 10 books. We’ll announce winners on August 14. You may enter today’s contest at Lauren’s website and enter there OR like her Facebook page. Here’s Lauren: “They really lived, didn’t they?” says my modern heroine...

10 days of giveaways, 10 Great Authors, 10 Unforgettable Adventures Dona??t let your summer end without an adventure! I’m part of a group of ten authors who will be getting together over the next two weeks to post about the topic of adventure! At least ten readers will win the adventure of the day, and our grand prize is a set of all ten books. All you have to do is answer the call to adventure: go to any of the participating authorsa??...

I have a guest post this week on Books a la Mode. Ten things I didn’t know I’d need to know before writing ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE Guess the answers to win a giveaway of my...

I’m on beautiful Cape Cod, and my next event is a talk and signing at Titcomb’s Bookstore. Tuesday, July 9th, at 7:00 PM. For more information visit the bookstore website here. Until then, I’ll be out on my boat...

Maybe you even live there! Well, my next event will be in Warner, New Hampshire Main Street Bookends of Warner Sunday, July 30th at 2:00 Hope to see you there 16 E. Main Street, Warner NH 03278...

I’m looking forward to my event tonight at The Bookmark Shoppe in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Thursday, June 27th at 7:30   8415 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, New...

Tomorrow night I’ll be doing a presentation on the rise of the Department Store — not just a place to shop, the grand emporiums helped usher in a new independence for women at the turn of the 20th century. Hope you can stop by if you’re in the area! Elm Street Books at New Canaan Public Library 151 Main Street New Canaan, Connecticut 06840 7:00 PM

To celebrate the launch of ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE, I’m posting this photograph of opening day outside the Siegel-Cooper department store, which happens to be the store that’s central to the story in my novel. This was 1896, when the El train ran down Sixth Avenue. This photograph from 1897 is inside Siegel-Cooper in the grocery department. These days it’s hard to imagine what a happening place department stores were at the turn...

Today I’m hosting an interview with Joanne Lewis, who will be a speaker at the upcoming (soon!) Historical Novel Society Conference in Florida. She’ll be on the panel Publishing Models: Indie Presses and Self-Publishing Pathways. The Lantern, her novel that won first place in the Royal Palm Literary Award for Historical Fiction, is about a modern-day woman in Miami and a girl from 15th century Florence, Italy who dared to enter the...

Guest of Honor at 2013 Historical Novel Society Conference Today I have a Q & A with Steve Berry, the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of eight Cotton Malone adventures, four stand-alone thrillers, and four short-story originals. His books have been translated into 40 languages with more than 15 million printed copies in 51 countries. And, by the way, he’s going to be speaking at this year’s Historical...

Q & A with Maryka Biaggio, author of PARLOR GAMES. Maryka Biaggio will be at the Historical Novel Conference this June speaking on the panel Writing About Women in History: Animating Their Times and Voices. Her novel PARLOR GAMES, based on the true story of a gilded-age baroness who tangled with the Pinkertons, was published by Doubleday in January 2013. How do you find the people and topics of your books? I stumbled across the subject of...

Interview with author Michelle Cameron I’m looking forward to going to my first Historical Novel Society conference. It’s being held June 21-23 down in St. Petersburg, Florida. Meanwhile, I’ll be hosting some interviews here on my blog with authors who are featured speakers at this year’s conference. I’m posting the first of these today, and my guest is author Michelle Cameron. Her historical novel THE FRUIT OF HER...

The Astor Place Opera House opened in 1847, a year before John Astor’s death…

My novel is named ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE. So what is Astor Place and how did it come to be?