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Out of the Omnibus

So, I found this book in the second hand store.

Fifty cents, I kid you not. The intro by the splendid Ms. Sayers alone is worth the price of admission.

I love reading old books. A deep dive into the strange and the obscure is my favorite catnip. Also, as an untrained urbanite, it’s the only kind of archeology I get to do. And as I’m writing madly on my next mysteries and thrillers, I figured getting some deep background on the genre would be useful. But let’s face it, mostly, I just have an...

Sarah Joins Summer Reading Series

Save the date!  June 21, 2018 Arbor Teas Sumer Reading Series presents the first chapter of Sarah’s original, serial novella: “An Exchange of Two Flowers.”

Sarah says:  I’m an unrepentant  history nerd.  This is not a secret. Anybody whose read the Palace of Spies or American Fairy Trilogy will have noticed.  So, I was delighted when the Arbor Teas Summer Reading Series is giving me a chance to leap from Young Adult fiction and dive straight into one of the most controversial and most overlo...

Sarah Chats LIVE with Readers

Heads up! I will be LIVE at the Writer’s Chatroom this Sunday, Feb. 21 from 7pm to 9pm EST. I’ll be talking about pseudonyms (I have lots), genre writing, good books, bad books, more books, and anything else you guys can think to ask. Hope to see you there!

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Did it Really…?

Did somebody really try to kill George II when he was still Prince of Wales?

George II gets overlooked a lot as a do-nothing king, but when he was a prince, he and Princess Caroline were both very popular. With most people. Most of the time. There was this once though…

HISTORICAL SPOILER ALERT!!!!

“Towards the end of September 1716 he made a progress from Hampton Court to Portsmouth, distributing largess copiously all the way, held a review of the troops and inspected the ships at Portsmouth,...

Authors Read Their Mean Reviews

Sarah Zettel and her fellow Open Road authors read from the best of their worst reviews!

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Sarah Zettel Talks Female Protagonists in SF!

Sarah Zettel takes to YouTube to talk about the ups and downs of the SF heroine (with and without the ray gun).

Speaking of SF Heroines:

CHECK OUT RECLAMATION’S NEW STORYBUNDLE!

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Cover Preview!

We are delighted to announce we have an exclusive preview of the cover for Assassin’s Masque, being the latest volume in the wholly true and entirely remarkable adventures of Margaret Preston Fitzroy, maid of honor, card-sharp, house-breaker, forger, thief of private correspondence, sometime conspiariator and confidential agent in the Court of His Majesty George I of England!

IN STORES AND ONLINE JANUARY 2016

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Who’s Real?

Yes, “Careless” Mary Bellenden’s is real too. As annoying as it is to have a Molly and a Mary to keep straight, there wasn’t a lot I could do about it. Mary apparently regularly stole the show with her appearance, and her behavior. She certainly had the eye of the gentlemen poets of the day

THE HON. MARY BELLENDEN

Now to my heart the glance of Howard flies ;

Now Harvey, fair of face, I mark full well.

With thee, youth’s youngest daughter, Sweet Lepell,

I see two lovely sisters hand in hand,

The fai...

Who’s Real?

Who was real resident in the Palace of Spies? Sophy Howe was. I wasn’t able to find art on her, but here’s what historian Lucy Worsely, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces has to say about Sophy in her book Courtiers (a book I highly recommend if you want to know more about what was really going on at Court).

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Who’s Real?

Ever wonder which of the characters in Palace of Spies was a real person? Quite a lot of them were. Starting with Peggy’s BFF at court: Molly Lepell.

WARNING! There’s actually a spoiler in this…

Molly was Maid of Honour to Caroline. She was nicknamed ‘the Schatz’, German for ‘treasure’.

She was renowned for her beauty, her elegant figure, her big grey ‘soft and sprightly’ eyes and her lustrous skin. Sprightly and fun-loving as well as being well educated and intelligent, Molly learnedto carefull...