I realize 2022 still has another month to go but I wanted to write this post before I got into gift wrapping and traveling to see loved ones and...
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Books + Writing
Interview: Tam Francis, Author of the Girl in the Jitterbug Dress Series
Someone recently posted in a historical fiction group about popular book cover trends within the genre and author Tam Francis posted the image from...
Review: Glamour Girls
I'm a sucker for a novel about a lady pilot who flies airplanes during wartime. (I've also reviewed The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar and Kate...
The 5 Tools That I Depend On
I haven't written about productivity on this blog for a while but I recently switched from one specific organization tool to another and I'm nerding...
Review: The Kitchen Front
Last May, I borrowed The Chilbury Ladies Choir from my local library and absolutely fell in love with it. A sweet story about friendship and...
Review: A Fire Sparkling
I'm such a sucker for London Blitz novels right now so when I saw the cover for A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean, I knew I had to devour it. And...
The 10 Best Books I Read in 2020
A finished reading 33 books this year. To some bookworms, that might not seem like a lot but that's a pretty good number for me and I'm proud of it....
2020 Highlights and Goals for 2021
Well. That was certainly... a year, huh? Instead of thinking about all the crummy things that happened over the course of the last year, I like to...
Scrivener to the Rescue!
I've been using Google Docs for writing my books for several years, all the while knowing that many writers recommended Scrivener. I knew it had a...
Review: Jane Steele
This book had me at the tagline: "Reader, I murdered him." "Reader, I married him" is the most famous line from Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's 1847...
Review: The Book of Lost Names
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel was so difficult to put down. The novel begins with the reader meeting a headstrong elderly librarian in...
Review: The Secret Messenger
Mandy Robotham's novel of the Nazi occupation of Venice—and the Venetian resistance that fought against fascism in many different ways—is an...
Jillianne Hamilton writes entertaining historical fiction and romances including The Hobby Shop on Barnaby Street and The Spirited Mrs. Pringle. Learn more.
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praise for jillianne
Jillianne has done a fabulous job creating a loveable and down-to-earth heroine in Molly Miranda and followed through with a really strong plotline packed full of twists and turns.
Holly at Bookaholic Confessions
Hamilton handles the story with a deft touch, balancing action, laugh-out-loud zingers and romance with zippy pacing and a character you can really root for.
Author Kat Ross
I thought the author's sense of humor was so funny! I found myself giggling out loud.
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