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cplesley
Nov 222 min read
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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cplesley
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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