Weekend Links and a Book On Sale

 

Happy last weekend of June, everyone!  I'm not sure how we're here already, it feels like summer just started.  But since I went to opening night at the Santa Fe Opera last night (La Boheme, a favorite!) and festival season is in full swing here, it must be.  (It's also deadline time, eek!  The new wip, a Gilded Age New York romance, is due in 2 weeks).  In the meantime, an older title of mine, Taming of the Rogue, is .99 for a very short time.  (If you love Shakespeare and 16th century theater like I do, I hope you'll enjoy it)

In the meantime, here's a few distractions:

England's first romance-only bookstore

Some real-life inspiration behind the portraits of the "The Gilded Age"

Pompeii's 2000 year old perfume garden

Roses under $20 for your summer wine needs

The history of the Santa Fe Opera

Weekend Links

 Happy almost August!  (ugh, where did the summer go??)  It's been crazy here, with the day job at its busiest and a book launch coming next week (Death Comes to Santa Fe, third in my 1920s mystery series!!!).  Hope you are staying cool and getting your reading in.  

 Speaking of reading, here's a few fun links I've found lately.  Enjoy!

Happy birthday, Emily Bronte!  (July 30, 1818)

Pompeii's ancient fast-food markets

Tudor tapestries returned to their former glory

Barbie and "the cinematic history of weaponized pink"

On setting and society in "Pride and Prejudice"

12 Eiffel Tower facts

Archaeologists unearth foundations of Wolf Hall

Fun Weekend Links

 I hope you've all recovered from the post-holidays!!  It's quiet here (though today is my birthday!), and I've been deep into a new Christmas novella for the 2023 Harlequin Historicals anthology (Gilded Age).  In the meantime, here are a few reads...

The misunderstood Roman Empress who willed her way to the top

Warrior queens of Britain

Unique jobs in cozy mysteries

A 1700-year-old bottle of wine "still drinkable"

Rebranding the Met (opera)

Inside Alva Vanderbilt's party of the century (research for the WIP)

Different styles of thinking

Casa di Vettii in Pompeii reopens

Some of the best afternoon teas in London