Colleen Gleason > Recent Status Updates

Super excited that there is now a Goodreads giveaway for Lady Darling! You have until Sept 15 to enter. ;-)

Pretty geeked. I just got a really bubbly and excited voice mail from a local indie bookseller/bookstore owner, who *raved* about this book.

Wheeee! I hope everyone who reads it enjoys too. Coming in late October!

Super excited that we will be doing a Goodreads giveaway for Lady Darling Inquires After a Killer!!

It starts in August, so either follow me or watch the book so you know when to enter! We are doing print copies.

I loved looking up titles from old books that I read as a child and using them in this book. People who adore reading and have been lifelong bookworms will notice a lot of familiar titles, especially ones I read growing up in the ‘70s.

Do any of these ring a bell?
What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew
Caddie Woodlawn
Trixie Belden
The Three Investigators

Every title or book mentioned in this series is a real book.

Phyllida attends a dinner party where they play the game “Two Truths and a Lie.” She’d rather be sipping her martini than playing, and she thinks she might just make up three totally outrageous lies.

However, she never has to play her turn, so we don’t know until the end of the book what two truths and a lie she would have told. ;-)

I’m having fun with Lady Darling’s daughters, who all come to get the gossip after their mother stumbles over a dead body at a dinner party the night before.

The daughters (all married off, and well, thank you very much!) are horrified at the thought of their mother inquiring after a killer—except for the youngest one, Jane, who thinks she could help. (Ha!)

This book is such a mishmash of everything that I love:
books (of course; and we meet lots of characters)….
female friendships…
the power of older, mature women….
a little romance…a dead body (of course!)….
and a sprinkling of the paranormal.

All wrapped up in a special bookshop that I really wish I owned!

Chapter One, page 1:

“Irene Colchester, nee Whitney, The Most Honorable Marchioness of Darling, had come to the conclusion that a married-off child was the best sort of child to have. Especially if that child was a daughter.”

When I wrote that line, I couldn’t help but laugh to myself. As an empty-nester, yes, I feel the same way!

However, my empty-nesting doesn’t include stumbling over a dead body…

Super excited for this upcoming book by my alter ego. I’ll be touring in late October in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah to promote this and my other series.

DNF