Category: The Harvey Girl

Random Saturday

Okay, so this is fun– The lovely and talented Emily Briggs of HoZ Marketing has created a sticker sheet for The Harvey Girl! One will be included in the first I-don’t-know-how-many-copies yet of the signed first edition sold by the Poisoned Pen, so if you want one (I do) you better put your order in…

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Let’s get this Friday started!

Something different today, brought to you by my publisher. Kinda cool, eh? And of course this is to help promote the first novel in my Harvey Girl series, The Harvey Girl, which launches from the Poisoned Pen on February 28 at 4pm. Reserve your copy of the signed first edition here.Or in e onAmazon.USAmazon.UK

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Random Saturday

So I did extensive research (not) into how Clare does her hair to play her part as a Harvey Girl at the Harvey House in Montaña Roja in the New Mexico Territory in 1890. I have wash-and-wear curly hair that does pretty much whatever it wants to so a Gibson Girl updo was not remotely…

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#thiswritinglife

from the New York Times (gift link): For example: and: and Read all the recs here. Worth it. Oh, and you wanted to know what I learned this year? Okay: That most of the men of the Old West were drunk most of the time, which explains all the gunfights. There was more truth in…

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It never fails.

I mean it never, ever fails. As soon as I finish whatever historical novel I’m working on, the moment it leaves my hands for the last time, I find that one more resource I absolutely, positively should have read before I wrote the book. And behold! Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton…

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Ideas for Christmas gifts

Of course I’m going to start with books. Have you met me? These were two of my favorite novels this year, so much so that I picked both of them for my book club in September. In part I loved them because they feature characters my age or near enough but especially because every one…

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