by Kate Quinn | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Whether you’re still socially distancing this holiday season or finally having that family get-together that was cancelled in 2020, you’ve got holiday shopping to do…and nothing fits better in a UPS envelope or a Christmas stocking than a...
by Kate Quinn | Dec 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 may well go down in our nation’s history as the Lost Year, the year an entire nation hit Pause, the year the TV show known as America jumped the shark and the screenwriters really got desperate (whatever happened to the murder hornets sub-plot? Did they...
by Kate Quinn | Aug 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Summer’s here, we’re all still in lock-down, and probably going a little bit stir-crazy. I’m yearning for Europe, but even if I won’t be hopping on an international flight anytime soon, there are books that will take me there! Not a complete...
by Kate Quinn | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Everybody needs some feel-good reading while quarantined. Here are some of my favorites…and yes, there are quite a lot of kids’ books on there. This is both for parents looking for books to share with stir-crazy offspring, and adults who simply want some...
by Kate Quinn | Jan 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
“I’ve been given 112 little princesses; what am I supposed to do with them?” That was a Russian general’s response, at the height of World War II as the Nazis rolled unstoppably into the Soviet Union, when he was presented with what would eventually be...
by Kate Quinn | Dec 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Nothing fits better in a Christmas stocking than a book. Here are my recommendations for your next shopping trip, eleven of the best books I read in 2019, though not all were published this year. Why 11 and not the usual 10? I didn’t want to leave any of these...
by Kate Quinn | Aug 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Readers, It’s finally time to celebrate the release of our novel, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women, releasing October 1. We’re thrilled to be hitting the road to share the book with so many of you in person. Between...
by Kate Quinn | Jun 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
As is now traditional: my recap of the 2019 Historical Novel Society Conference! With four HNS conferences under my belt before jetting off to Washington, D.C., I knew two things going in: 1) There would be much fun and very little sleep, and 2) What happens at the...
by Kate Quinn | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m newly back from the 2019 Historical Novel Society Conference, and I promise I’ll get my recap up soon–but in case you missed the Koffee Klatch I did with the fabulous Beatriz Williams on how to craft a dual-narrative historical novel, here are... by Kate Quinn | Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Nothing fits better in a Christmas stocking than a book. Here are my recommendations for your next shopping trip, ten of the best books I read in 2018 (though not all were published this year.) Some were written by friends or colleagues, some by authors I only hope I...