C. P. Lesley, Novelist

New Books Network interview with Katie Tietjen, whose second historical mystery featuring Maple Bishop has just been published by Crooked Lane Books

New Books Network interview with Lucy Pick, whose historical novel The Queen's Companion, about Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Holy Land, has just come out with Cuidono Press

New Books Network interview with Kathleen Kaufman, whose latest historical/fantasy novel just came out with Kensington Books

New Books Network interview with Karen Swan about her historical novel The Midnight Secret, which concludes her Wild Isle series, set in Scotland between 1925 and 1935

New Books Network interview with Joanna Miller, whose debut historical fiction novel has just come out with G. P. Putnam

New Books Network interview with Alka Joshi, whose latest historical novel, Six Days in Bombay, just came out with MIRA Books

New Books Network interview with the historical novelist Victoria Christopher Murray, whose Harlem Rhapsody just came out with Berkley

New Books Network interview with Elyse Durham, whose Maya and Natasha, a novel about Soviet ballet, will soon be out from Mariner Books

C. P. Lesley's annual overview of tasks attempted, accomplished, and not yet attained in 2024

New Books Network interview with Monica Chenault-Kilgore, whose historical novel The Jewel of the Blues just came out from Graydon House

New Books Network interview with Ruth Reichl, about "The Paris Novel"

New Books Network interview with Robin Oliveira about her latest novel, set in late 19th-century Scotland and Washington Territory

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

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

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

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

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