My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. All of these will make great reads for this winter and many are books you won’t see many other places; I strive to find those under-the-radar gems. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.

Celeste Connally - ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A LORD

Celeste Connally - ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A LORD

In this interview, I chat with Celeste Connally about Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, her new pseudonym and how she selected it, writing historical books instead of contemporary, what it was like for women to live in the Regency Era, setting the stage for a new series, and much more.

In this interview, I chat with Celeste Connally about Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, her new pseudonym and how she selected it, writing historical books instead of contemporary, what it was like for women to live in the Regency Era, setting the stage for a new series, and much more.

Celeste's recommended reads are

  1. A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly
  2. Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore
  3. To Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters
  4. Death and Croissants by Ian Moore
  5. The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre by Natasha Lester

 

Want to know which new titles are publishing in January - May of 2024? Check out the new Literary Lookbook which contains a comprehensive but not exhaustive list all in one place so you can plan ahead.

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Send your top read of 2023 recording to me at cindyhburnett@att.net with Favorite Read of 2023 as the subject line. The episode will run in early December.

 

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Celeste Connally

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CELESTE CONNALLY is an Agatha Award nominee, and a former freelance writer and editor. A lifelong devotee of historical novels and adaptations fueled by her passion for history—plus weekly doses of PBS Masterpiece—Celeste loves reading and writing about women from the past who didn’t always do as they were told.