Yeah, I know, I’ve shared this before, but I just saw it again on a “Best Super Bowl tv ads” list (which list included none of this year’s) and this was on it and I was limp in the hands of fate. Enjoy! I always do. (I love how the wife looks at the husband…
Photos from my October 2024 research trip in northwestern New Mexico. The Harvey House in Belen, New Mexico, which was the model for the Montaña Roja Harvey House in The Harvey Girl. The restoration has been beautifully done and they’re still serving Fred Harvey recipes in a little cafe in the back. One of the…
Written at the request of Zoe, She Who Must Be Obeyed at Head of Zeus’ promotional department. For one thing, the parallels between that time and this are inescapable. I just read a book by a Stanford professor named Richard White who posits that the robber barons then weren’t all that smart or attractive and…
ICYMI, HoZ/Bloomsbury gave The Harvey Girl her own video. *squee* Launching at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale onSaturday, February 28th, at 4pm. Available also in e:Kindle.USKindle.UK
Two thousand year-old druid Atticus O’Sullivan has relocated to present day Tempe, Arizona, in an attempt to avoid a centuries-in-the-making throw-down with his ancient enemy, Aenghus Óg, who wants Atticus’ sword and Atticus’ head, pretty much in that order. Smart dialogue, good action scenes, a series made for Jim Butcher fans. Of which I am…
Love this story. (h/t my feed, mirabile dictu–something good showed up there for a change!) Man, it just goes on forever, with miraculously no deaths. (And the writer in me cannot resist a shoutout to John D. MacDonald’s Cry Hard, Cry Fast) What really happened at Davos. Quote: “First, the Europeans were finally pushed to…
What’s wrong with this picture? A question I asked my editor, but only after I had made a thermal mug on Zazzle with it. Sigh…However, FYI, I will be giving that away to some lucky fan at the Poisoned Pen on February 28, 2026. It is definitely and will forever be unique. The promotional “asset”…
