Making New Friends

The signing at the Book Cellar was a lot of fun. Met a couple of really interesting authors, most notably Geoffrey Edwards, author of FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT. I started reading it last night and it grabbed me, despite being far from my usual time and place –...

Notes to the Sun-Times piece

I just put up the Sun-Times piece, and I didn’t want to clutter it with my notes, so this is a brief follow-up. Firstly, I was pleasantly shocked to see how much space the story was given – nearly a full page in their Books section (9B if you want to find...

Sun-Times Interview

From the Chicago Sun-Times – Sunday, 11/4/07’MASTER’ CLASS Chicago actor gives readers a delightful romp through the backstory of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ BY MARY WISNIEWSKISo what really caused the Montague-Capulet feud that made so much...

Backstory

MJ Rose is an astonishingly successful and prolific author. Her latest novel, The Reincarnationist, is garnering her huge kudos from all over the place. But even as busy as she must be, she’s also interested in promoting other authors. She has a couple of sites...

Armchair Review

Yesterday when I listed the upcoming reviews and interviews, I didn’t include the Armchair Reviews – because I didn’t know it was coming! These are folks who only review a book if they like it, so having a review pop up is lovely. Clearly the...

Enduring Romance Review, and links, links, links

Kimberley over at Enduring Romance has just posted a lovely review to THE MASTER OF VERONA. Despite a terrible cold, she has a very conversational style that brings up a lot of things often glossed over in reviews. It strikes me that there are a lot of...