So happy to have spent my Halloween 🎃 at the newly opened *gorgeous* Barnes & Noble Wicker Park IL — signed books (get your signed copy today!) & chatted with readers Spooky 👻 or witchy 🧙? Halloween doesn’t have to be over w/ #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse & #TheWitchandtheTsar 🖤

Great Halloween mentions for #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse in Woman's World Magazine and FIRST for Women Magazine (full list of wonderfully spooky reads here 👉 firstforwomen.com/entertainment/…) 💚🖤

Necessary updates? This feels like one: A SWEET STING OF SALT is nominated for a Goodreads Reader's Choice Award!!! I'm never been more stunned, or more grateful to everyone who's taken this queer little book into their heart. Vote for Salty here: goodreads.com/choiceawards/r…

So incredibly proud to see #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse on CrimeReads list of the best gothic novels of 2024 (with books I either loved or can’t wait to read)! 🥀🖤 Full list here ➡️ crimereads.com/best-gothic-fi…

So excited for this beauty to come out in the UK in a little over two weeks now, on Thursday December 5! 🇬🇧 Thanks to my my editor Chloe Gough and the team at HarperVoyagerUK for the stunning finished copies 🤍💙 Preorder ➡️ harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-h… #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse

There are many ways to have a haunted house. But in the 5 books recommended by author Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (*mostly* news & updates), these homes are literally crumbling into their foundations. From Mexican Gothic to The September House, you may want to sleep somewhere else: reactormag.com/five-books-abo…

🕯️💙UK PUB DAY💙🕯️ My gothic tale #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse is now officially out in the UK! 🇬🇧 I cannot wait for UK readers to get their hands on this beauty, with its truly haunting and magical cover 🧵👇

🕯️🥀SIGNED GIVEAWAY🥀🕯️ In honor of her 3-mo birthday in the US & 1-week in the UK (& the holiday season!), I am giving away a signed & personalized hardcover copy of #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse — and you choose which copy: US 🇺🇸 or UK 🇬🇧! (Thru Friday) instagram.com/p/DDcxQgKxrLV/…

💜🤍Exciting Reveal News🤍💜 #TheHauntingofMoscowHouse is The Locked Library book box pick for December—titled Unwanted Guests 👀👻 Thank you to HarperVoyagerUK for this wonderful honor 💟 & if you haven’t signed up for this magical subscription box, you are missing out 😁

Writing ✍️ tips from Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb! Watch the latest Friends & Fiction show: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6sk8_…

📚Holiday reading!🎄 In the last corner of occupied Holland, one woman just won't give up. Join Nancy and the Dutch Resistance in their fight for freedom. #WW2 #HistoricalFiction #Resistance #SecretAgent mybook.to/Tulip

5 Historical Fiction Stories Featuring Tough, Tenacious Women via Girl Who Reads trbr.io/QY6ImmE

‼️COVER REVEAL: I'm so excited to finally be able to share the cover of my forthcoming novel, THE LAST ASSIGNMENT, based on the incredible true story of award-winning combat correspondent and photojournalist Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle.”

My #NewYear2025 writing goals: ✨ Query WIPs ✨ Draft new WIP ✨ Attend History Quill conference ✨ Launch author newsletter ✨ Complete Margie Lawson deep editing class ✨ Continue working with awesome mentor ✨ Have fun with #WritingCommunity

Menorahs as different artists might imagine them. #HappyHanukkah #GeorgiaOKeeffe #YayoiKusama #BarbaraKruger

the book that got me my first agent has never been published (many others have been thankfully) but it DID get me an agent and for anyone worried about a mistake you've made in a query letter-- my letter said my WWI book was set in WWII that's right I PUT THE WRONG WAR

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So honored that WHEN YOU WRITE BACK, my dual-timeline middle grade novel, is the 2025 winner of the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award! They say to write the book of your heart, and this story is definitely that.

Writers are often told: 🤐'Show don't tell.' 🤔'Write what you know'. But it's more subtle, and skilful, than that. Jem Poster, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University and novelist, explains at historiamag.com/show-dont-tell… #writing tips #histfic