The final draft of the map for The Harvey Girl! Courtesy of Cartographers Extraordinaire (yes, that is their official title) Cherie and Thom Northon at mapmakers.com. You will have seen their website on all of the maps in all my books from the Kate Shugak series on. This long-term professional relationship came about by way…
The New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe had a small but choice Fred Harvey exhibit in October 2024, which is where I saw this portrait of Fred Harvey. Since the portrait was painted in 1890, I used it to inspire the way I wrote him in The Harvey Girl. Signed first edition hardcovers available…
My editor had me write a letter to be included with the advanced reading copies he was sending out, and Emily (aka She Who Must Be Obeyed at Bloomsbury Marketing) rewarded the sweat of my fevered brow by gussying it up. Check it out. The obverse: And the reverse: Not too shabby, eh? (channelling my…
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
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”…
From Zoe, Marketing Manager at Head of Zeus– “Attaching some exciting photos of a proof of mailing we did in the office today!” [First of all: “Proof of mailing.” Heh.] That’s the ARC (advanced reading copy) going out to a select few book reviewers and bloggers (“few” because ARCs are even more expensive to print…
