C. P. Lesley, Novelist

New Books Network interview with Isa Arsén, whose debut novel Shoot the Moon looks at the Apollo Space Program

Thoughts on the pluses and minuses of co-writing and what it adds to a novel project

New Books Network interview with Alice Sherman Simpson, author of The Winthrop Agreement, about a young woman in early 20th century NYC

Deeper look at The Merchant's Tale, a historical novel co-written by P.K. Adams and C.P. Lesley and released in mid-November 2023

The latest Uhtred book by Bernard Cornwell: a study of daily life in Saxon England, with recipes

Survey of cats, mysterious and contemplative, in fiction—especially cozy mysteries

Holiday roundup of 2023 books by Rhys Bowen, Bernard Cornwell, Clara McKenna, Erica Neubauer, Anne Perry and Karen Swan

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.