C. P. Lesley, Novelist

Interview with Stephanie Dray about her latest novel, about the life of Frances Perkins: "Becoming Madam Secretary"

New Books Network interview with bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Janie Chang about their co-written novel, The Phoenix Crown

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

New Books Network interview with Andrea Penrose about The Diamond of London, a novel about Lady Hester Stanhope

A look at my writing plans for 2024, as well as other book and editing news

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

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

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

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

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.