Garment of Shadows: Booklist love
A writer with a book on the brink of publication always holds her breath until the first shoe drops: will reviewers like the new book? Or will this be the one that exposes me for a fraud and a...
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Garment of Shadows giveaway
Random House did a fabulous giveaway over at Goodreads last month. (Sorry, everyone who won and is now writing me to say they stayed up until 3 in the morning. And sorry, too, everyone who didn’t win,...
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Lyautey’s Fez
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. In 1924, Morocco was a protectorate, under the administration of France to the south and...
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A very local economy
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings, and you have a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. One of the fascinating things about Fez is the way the crafts of everyday life are created...
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The city gates
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Fez remains a walled city, as it was in 1924 when Russell and Holmes walked its streets, as it was...
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Rome in Africa
Leave a comment on today’s Mutterings for a chance at winning a copy of the Garment of Shadows ARC. Among other oddities of this extraordinary country, Morocco was part of the Roman empire. As...
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Thanks to everyone who sent in a comment over the last ten days—and congratulations to the winners (although Betsy Chamberlin and Elizabeth Copley, you might want to check your email if you’d like an...
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What do I want in a book cover?
First of all, I want it to evoke the book without giving away the plot. (Garment of Shadows: young woman in Western clothes gazes at a vaguely North African landscape: check.) Then, it needs to catch...
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A last group of Garment of Shadows ARCs will go out to ten people on the newsletter mailing list. We’ll do the drawing on Tuesday, so if you’re not signed up for the newsletter, you might like to drop...
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A party!
This Sunday is the annual garden party at the Sussex home of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. But before you get out the car or book tickets, let me tell you that it’s all online, and all in the...
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