C. P. Lesley, Novelist

Interview with the writer Clara McKenna, author of the Stella and Lyndy historical mysteries and other novels

New Books Network interview with author Stephanie Cowell about her latest historical novel, The Boy in the Rain

Interview with Karen Swan, author of The Wild Isle series and many other novels, most recently "Christmas by Candlelight"

List of novels on my Fall 2023 Bookshelf, all recent historical fiction or historical mystery, set in the 19th and 20th centuries

Interview with Heather Redmond, author of numerous mystery novels, most recently "Death of the Sisters"

New Books Network interview with Louise Hare, author of the Canary Club mysteries and other novels

Interview with Kerri Maher about her latest novel, All You Have to Do Is Call

New Books Network interview with Andrew Varga, author of the YA series A Jump in Time

Author interview with Alix Christie, whose "The Shining Mountains" explores family & racial conflict in the 19th-century US Northwest

New Books Network interview with Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, author of "The Witch and the Tsar," a historical fantasy set in 1500s Russia

Interview with author Nan Fischer about her latest novel, The Book of Silver Linings (Berkley, August 2023)

Discussion of how I connect with my characters at the start of a new novel

Author interview with Anika Scott, author of The German Heiress, The Soviet Sisters, and, most recently, Sinners of Starlight City.

Revisiting the question of historical invention with a specific example from my own work in progress, Song of the Steadfast

New Books Network interview with author Jennifer Savran Kelly about her novel Endpapers

Books I have read that are due out in the summer of 2023, as well as those on my bookshelf for reading before September.

Recap of my New Books Network interview with Ginny Kubitz Moyer, whose debut novel "The Seeing Garden" appeared in May 2023.

This post marks the full transition of my blog to the Wix site, with an overview of reasons for the change.

More information about my New Books Network interview with Anna Lee Huber, author of historical fiction featuring Lady Darby & Verity Kent

On the challenges of telling a story when real life offers more drama than making stuff up