Happy Release Day, JOSEPHINE!

Today marks the release of BECOMING JOSEPHINE, a fabulous debut novel by Heather Webb. BECOMING JOSEPHINE tells the story of Rose Tascher – better known to history as Josephine Bonaparte (Napoleon’s first wife). I loved this book for many reasons. I’ll address them in more depth in my review (look for that a week from Friday) but the book is beautifully paced, tightly plotted, and takes a close, personal look at the life of an extraordinary and complicated woman. People know Josephine as “Napoleon’s wife,” and many books on Josephine focus on her years at Napoleon’s side. Heather’s Josephine starts out as

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An Interview With Beverly Swerling

Please help me welcome Beverly Swerling, author of BRISTOL HOUSE (Viking, April 4, 2013). Born in Boston, I went to school in Kansas City MO (don’t ask).  After college I moved to NYC and took a job as a file clerk in an insurance company so I could support my writing habit.  Eventually I could legitimately call myself a freelance journalist, but it was a good ten years before I managed to write a saleable novel.  In the meantime I got married and not long after moved to England.  Lived there and in France and Spain for nearly a quarter

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