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What's On...View this newsletter in your browser. Happy New Year, Friends! December was a delicious, decadent whirlwind of treats, including a Christmas lunch at historic Pete's Tavern with writer pals, Kate Braithwaite and Nancy Bilyeau; the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall celebrating a centennial of sisterhood; and drinks with the Hubs at The Plaza Hotel's elegant Palm Court. You can read more about the Rockettes and The Plaza on my History With Hope newsletter on Substack. Bidding goodbye to the holidays always feels a bit bittersweet, but I'm also super stoked to welcome another New Year, starting with terrific news: I have a pub date! The IRISH EYES audiobook will release March 31, 2026 !!! The audiobook will be available across 60+ retail and library digital distributors, including Audible, Apple, Spotify, audiobooks.com and Google Play! Pre-order links here. Contest WinnerWhat's better than one contest winner? Two! Congratulations to K. Grover, the winner of a signed copy of The Versailles Formula, the latest installment of the Genvieve Planché historical mystery series by Nancy Bilyeau. And to our runner up, Lianne K, I have an unsigned print copy for you! Reach out with your snail mail addys, and I'll get your prizes out ASAP. Don't miss a thing! Sign up for my free newsletters.
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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,...
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 Poët," a...
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 Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle —...