For those of you who missed last Tuesday’s Zoom with Tina* of the Avon Free Public Library, she, lovely person that she is, sent me an advance peek of her questions. I reproduce them here, with answers. *Tina is an enthusiastic and informed interviewer who actually does read the book. I encourage any author to…
Those lovely folks at the Fresh Fiction blog asked for the answers to twenty questions to accompany their feature on The Harvey Girl. As follows: FRESH FICTION 20 QUESTIONS What is the title of your latest release? The Harvey Girl. What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A Pinkerton detective goes undercover as a…
In case you missed the event last Saturday, it’s up on YouTube. Me and the ‘maniacs and The Harvey Girl. We had a blast. And if you think you’d like to be a member of the Danamaniacs, which is essentially the best online book club there is, click here.
Greg, my editor at HoZ, asked me to write a letter to enclose with the advance reading copies of The Harvey Girl. Here you go, I said. Hi! I’m Dana Stabenow, author of forty-ish novels so you’d think I’d done enough to be going on with but nooooo, as in I just wrote the first…
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This is how research works for writers. Pay attention, writers. (Literally and figuratively.) In preparation for writing The Harvey Girl, I read a bunch of books to do with Gilded Age America and the American Southwest in the 1890s, which must perforce include reading about Mexico during that same time. One very useful book was…
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…
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
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…
