Talking to Jenny in New Zealand

A short time ago, I spent a most enjoyable time talking to Jenny, for a Joys of Binge Reading Podcast. She was in New Zealand. I was in the U.S., in Massachusetts. As an ancient relic of the 20th century, I continue to marvel at how easy it is now to have chats like these with readers, bloggers, and podcasters around the world. Just push a couple of buttons et voilà!

In a short time, we covered quite a bit of ground, from my early career to current work, inspiration sources, research, and more. (Jenny had clearly done quite a bit of her own research—into my books and career—in advance.) We also talked about how much I choose to include or exclude in the smoochies department.

The podcast is now live at the Joys of Binge Reading site, where Jenny has also very thoughtfully provided links to the people and topics we covered. You can access it here.

Or, you can watch here on YouTube.

And here’s a two minute clip to sample.

Tecomanthe speciosa, a native plant of New Zealand

Jenny, thank you for being such a gracious host and excellent interviewer!

Deals this month (and more to come)—This includes you, Australia!

View fullsize

This month brings a variety of deals and giveaways. Today I’ll cover the ones in effect now. Expect more in another week or so.

For my readers in Australia: Ten Things I Hate About the Duke is a Kindle Monthly Deal in the Australia store for the month of July.

For those who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited and/ or the Prime Reading Program: Dukes Prefer Blondes is included in these programs from now through 30 September.

Meanwhile, if you’re not already following me on Instagram, you might want to consider it, because (a) pretty pictures—OK, some are a little strange and many are nerdy history pictures—and (b) giveaways.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Interrupted Reading c. 1870

Art Institute Chicago

Now, with apologies, I must deal with matters technical and tedious. The demise of Feedburner obliges us to move to another email program. If you’d like to continue receiving my blog posts in your email inbox, please use this link to subscribe. Yes, again. I’m sorry. Not my choice. It was Google’s decision to do away with Feedburner—and I’ve still not forgiven them for killing Picasa.

If for any reason you’d rather not click on the above link, you can always subscribe by going direct to my website, which will offer opportunities on the Home and Blog pages.

As to my once in a lifetime—I mean, once or twice a year (in a good year) newsletter—nothing has changed.

UK/Australia/New Zealand alert: "Ten Things I Hate About the Duke" Kindle now available

View fullsize

It gives me very great pleasure to report that the UK/Australia/New Zealand Kindle edition of Ten Things I Hate About the Duke is now available. Other retailers will follow, probably within 72 hours.

Regarding the audio editions: My agents are working on this and I should have details soon.

Thank you for your patience. We’ll try to do better in future.