What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Happy October, Friends, October is my hands-down favorite month of the year and not only because it hosts my favorite holiday, Halloween, my wedding anniversary (four years!), the one-month anniversary of adopting these little nuggets (meet five-month-old sibs Ernie and Rosebud) AND my birthday -- tomorrow, October 2nd, a natal date I proudly share with Mahatma Gandhi as well as Sting, Groucho Marx, and Annie Leibovitz. Good company! An early...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Whitehead, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Dia daoibh Friends, I'm just back from Ireland, my creative well overflowing from the Historical Novel Society Conference at Maynooth University (headliners included John Banville and Martina Devlin), followed by glorious days touring Dublin (Guinness Storehouse, Trinity College and the Book of Kells, Oscar Wilde House), Belfast (Titanic Museum, Belfast Castle, Game of Thrones Studio Tour, the Ulster...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Reenactment of the 1778 Battle of Monmouth at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Manalapan, New Jersey. Hi Friends, June sped by, my free time spent packing in as many New Jersey state parks as possible and powering through Ken Burns' The American Revolution. And yet somehow July sneaked up on me, hence this newsletter going out later in the day. As we're all ramping up to ring in America's 250th birthday, I'll keep things brief. On Thursday,...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. From left to right, Raj Moorjani, Yours Truly, Finola Austin and Richard Huddleson. Hi Friends, May was mostly a writing month for me punctuated by reading and Netflix. I absolutely adored The Widows of Malabar Hill, the launch of Sujata Massey's "Perveen Mistry" mystery series set in 1920s Bombay and centered on a lady lawyer-cum-sleuth. Further to female lawyers in history, I binged all three seasons of "The Law According to Lydia PoΓ«t," a...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Stoop sitting at the New York Botanical Garden's annual Orchid Show. Photo by Raj Moorjani; all other photos by Yours Truly. Hi Friends, April here on the east coast saw winter holding on with a vengeance though we did have one week of beautiful, sunshiny reprieve during which the Hubs and I seized our chance to check out the annual orchid show at the New York Botanical Garden. This year's program was Mr. Flower Fantasticβs Concrete Jungle β...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Hi Friends, Today is the audio book birthday for IRISH EYES! Narrated by Galway born Jade Yourell, the audiobook is available for purchase on Apple, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Google, Libro.fm and Spotify. For the full list of buy links, click here. Book Club Love One of the adorable rescue cats available for adoption at Catsbury Park in Asbury, NJ. When you bring book lovers and cat lovers together in the same room, it's bound to be a...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Happy March! March being the host month for Saint Patrick's Day (aka my second Christmas), it's one of my favorite times of year. Shamrock Shakes, corned beef and cabbage, creamy pints o' Guinness, re-watching "Leap Year" -- what's not to love?! Not surprisingly, I have lots of fun doings this month but first... Mark your calendars! The IRISH EYES audiobook releases on March 31st!!! Galway native, Jade Yourell, doesn't only voice Rose, she...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Hi Again Friends, As you long-term subscribers know, this is a monthly newsletter. But when there's SO MUCH goodness going on in a single month, and that month happens to include Valentine's Day, sometimes I can't help myself. First off, my publisher surprised me with a flash sale for IRISH EYES! For a limited time, you can get the IRISH EYES ebook on Kindle for just 99 cents. Then, this happened... The book is an Amazon bestseller, ranked...
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What's On... View this newsletter in your browser. Happy Month o' Hearts and Flowers! January was a jam-packed month including a trip to Florida where I spent a delightful evening with a book club in Floral Parke that chose IRISH EYES as its January read! Bonus, I got to catch up with my high school bestie, Kelly, who took me to see the manatees at Blue Spring State Park, then to lunch in historic Sanford. We saw real manatees, too! Selfie by Kelly Martin. Blue Spring State Park, Florida....
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