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A video trailer for A Slant of Light

A video trailer for GLASS

"Kathryn Lasky embellishes and burnishes the time-honored tropes of the Cinderella tale with her customary clarity of storytelling and novelty of invention. GLASS sparkles."

Gregory McGuire, author of Wicked

Glass is published August 20

Sometimes stories come from the weirdest places.

For years I have always wondered about the Fairy Godmother in the Cinderella story. Where did she come from? What was she like as a kid? Well, here is one answer the the story of Glass. I turned the traditional tale inside out.Bess Wickham is the daughter of famous glassmakers. But behind the stunning beauty of the glass are the sinister shadows. Yes dark magic and unspeakable evil.

Coming out August 20.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!

I did an interview as if I was Georgia O’Keeffe

You can read it here

Georgia sits down for a question-and-answer session with dru’s book musings so that we can learn more about what makes her tick. Let’s see what she has to say.

First Interview with me about Mortal Radiance

You can watch it since it was recorded

Video teaser for Mortal Radiance

Take a look, the book is coming July 2

I just got the first copy of Mortal Radiance

It will be in bookstores July 2

My new Georgia O’Keeffe mystery is coming July 2

You can preorder it now!

I'm so excited. This book finds Georgia in Taos at the home of Mabel Dodge Luhan with a cast of eccentrics that range from Wallis Simpson, soon to be the Duchess of Windsor, to Ansel Adams and a shocking murder on her hands of a beautiful Navajo potter.Why do I love writing these books? It’s pretty simple really. I love Georgia O’Keeffe. I love the 1930’s and I love New Mexico.

Perhaps the era was truly the prime motivator. My mother was a product of the 1930’s . She worked during the depression for an orphanage in Indiana. She drove around in, yes A Model A , like Georgia did in the desert searching for landscape, but  my mother was picking up abandoned children. She was living through dangerous times. A time when women dared to do the unexpected.

Georgia was one of those women.

New Georgia O’Keeffe mysteries coming!

The second book will come out in July 2024

I am so happy that Georgia will continue solving mysteries in two more books after her debut in Light on Bone. Mortal Radiance is the title of book 2 in the series. I have already finished writing it, and am working on book 3, A Slant of Light. Mortal Radiance is set in 1935 in Taos, New Mexico where a beautiful young woman is murdered and Georgia must unravel a complex tangle of international espionage, Nazis, and undeworld thugs to see justice done. Severn House will publish these in the UK and US.

I was on a panel at the Maine Crime Wave convention

We talked about mystery series

It was helpful because I am working on a second Georgia O'Keeffe book!