busy with bylines!

I promise I've been making progress on my third book. Promise! But as you can tell from yesterday's post, I've also been writing a lot more for online outlets lately, and I've got some great stuff in the works I can't reveal just yet. Listicles and essays and interviews, oh my!

My interview with Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and now The Bedlam Stacks, just went live on Chicago Review of Books. My first byline with them -- but it certainly won't be the last.

Read our conversation here.

making historical fiction fun

Historical fiction is fantastic, but it can be a little, well, depressing. All those wars, plagues, orphans, and thwarted romances. If you need something a bit lighter for your summer reading pleasure, I've rounded up five great choices -- dare I say they're both historical and hysterical? (Maybe not, but they'll definitely make you laugh more than you cry.)

Laughs From the Past up at TheRefresh.co.

answers for authors at Ask Allison

Allison Winn Scotch is a fabulous author with fabulous books, and she recently re-opened her blog for aspiring authors. So awesome. Her latest post is about how you know whether a book is done, and I'm one of the authors who weighed in.

Check out smart thoughts from Allison and others here.

Kate's a shero

Guess who's featured this week at Sheroes of History? That's right, it's our favorite detective/spy/bad-ass Kate Warne. Some fun links here to other Kate-related info, too.

Up, up and away!

One-day e-book deal for GIRL IN DISGUISE!

 

Today only, July 31! 
If you've been waiting for a great deal on the GIRL IN DISGUISE e-book, wait no more! It's $1.99 today only across all platforms.
That means:
Nook: $1.99
Kobo: $1.99
Kindle: $1.99
iBooks: $1.99
Google Books: $1.99

Please spread the word!

Prefer hardcover? Pick that one up for the regular price, today or any day, at your favorite local independent bookstore or through the links below:
Indiebound
Amazon
Barnes & Noble

"A Spunky Spy Saga." — NPR Books

"Macallister is becoming a leading voice in strong, female-driven historical fiction."—Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway's Girl

For the first female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by. Danger, however, is not.

In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a woman mostly danger and ruin—unless that woman is Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton detective and a desperate widow with a knack for manipulation. [more...]

in the pink with Bas Bleu

Earlier this summer I shared how very excited I was to see GIRL IN DISGUISE named to the Summer Reading List at Bas Bleu. As a lifelong fan of their catalog, this was way cool -- even more so when I saw the cover featured on their home page. Yay! Kate! So big!

Then they invited me to do a Q&A on their Bluestocking Blog, and of course I was happy to do so. We talked about everything from women's legacies to The Magician's Lie movie casting to how Allan Pinkerton would feel about how people think of him now. Read it all here!

I'm up at The Millions!

There's writing and then there's writing. I have two published novels and a good handful of published short stories and poems, but it's hard to express how it felt to see my byline on an essay at the highly respected literary website The Millions. I shared my thoughts on whether historical fiction can be feminist (it totally can) as well as some of my favorite recent historical novels that make the case for women as fully realized members of society and pretty awesome individuals to boot.

Read the whole essay here, and I'd love it if you'd share the link around. It's been wonderful to see the positive reactions so far. I'm thrilled to have this one out in the world.

giveaway + interview at The Debutante Ball!

Another interview to show off -- in this one, I not only reveal Kate Warne's secret theme song, I also got to chat with the fantastic Jenni L. Walsh, whose BECOMING BONNIE you absolutely need to pick up. Plus, there's a giveaway! What better way to brighten your weekend?

This way to the interview.

a totes cool tote giveaway!

GIRL IN DISGUISE is getting close to some major review milestones on Amazon and Goodreads, and I need your help to cross the threshold! So I'm giving away a cool tote printed with the GIRL IN DISGUISE cover.

See Facebook for details!

wheeeee, TV

Authors are not always super-comfortable with on-camera interviews. We're more used to putting the words out there without a face or voice attached. My on-camera interviews for GIRL IN DISGUISE have been minimal so far, which I don't mind at all -- saves me on makeup, that's for sure! And with KMPH/FOX26 in Fresno, I got the best of both worlds: the book is on camera but I'm not, heh.

See author Bonnie Hearn Hill recommend GIRL IN DISGUISE among her New Summer Reads for the Great Day Book Club segment.