tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19004773724014987282024-02-19T02:49:54.222-05:00Mr. Churchill's SecretaryAbout Women in World War II, Sir Winston, Vintage Cocktails, Cryptography and Red LipstickSusan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-46441656396029289012019-07-04T11:20:00.000-04:002019-07-12T10:45:41.265-04:00Cover reveal for THE KING'S JUSTICE, Maggie Hope #9<span style="font-size: large;">Ta da! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE KING'S JUSTICE is scheduled for publication February 4, 2020. Pre-order now at your favorite independent bookstore, or <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-kings-justice-susan-elia-macneal/1131742028?ean=9780399593840#/" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Justice-Maggie-Hope-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07S8LCBB7/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+king%27s+justice%2C+macneal&qid=1562253377&s=gateway&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-12630292435372728472019-05-24T09:39:00.004-04:002019-05-24T09:40:18.819-04:00THE KING'S JUSTICE, Maggie Hope #9, scheduled for publication in February 2020<span style="font-size: large;">Some good news for Maggie Hope readers — the trade paperback of THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE will be published August 6, 2019 (this summer)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the next novel in the series, THE KING'S JUSTICE, Maggie Hope #9, is scheduled to be published in February of 2020. Cover reveal coming soon!</span><br />
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As you might know (if you're not living under a rock), President Bill Clinton and novelist James Patterson have writen the new thriller, THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING.<br />
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Mr. Clinton did an interview with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/books/review/bill-clinton-by-the-book.html">New York Times, "Bill Clinton: By the Book"</a> — and it came out that one of his favorite novelists is ... me!<br />
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Yes, I had to pick myself up off the floor.<br />
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Here's the quote: <span style="color: #cc0000;">"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;">And I can’t wait for the next Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Robert Crais, Louise Penny, Sara Paretsky, Susan Elia MacNeal and Daniel Silva."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wow!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then after posting about it on social media, I heard from none other than the lovely Chelsea Clinton, who had this to say:</span></span><br />
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Thank you, President <span class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="1330457336" dir="ltr">@BillClinton</span> mentioning my books in <span class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="807095" dir="ltr">@NYTimes</span>. Can't wait to read THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING! (And if you ever need another pair of eyes for your manuscripts...) <span class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/books/review/bill-clinton-by-the-book.html" dir="ltr" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/books/review/bill-clinton-by-the-book.html"><span class="tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;">https://www.</span><span class="js-display-url">nytimes.com/2018/05/31/boo</span><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;">ks/review/bill-clinton-by-the-book.html</span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"> </span>…</span></span> <span class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="757303975" dir="ltr">@ChelseaClinton</span> <span class="twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" data-mentioned-user-id="1339835893" dir="ltr">@HillaryClinton</span></div>
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Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-14115083089451346892018-07-20T09:40:00.001-04:002018-07-20T09:41:08.682-04:00Traveling to Arisaig, where Britain's WWII Agents TrainedSo happy to be in Arisaig, Scotland — where Britain's SOE agent trainees did their paramilitary training during World War II.<br />
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Now Arisaig House (which was used as the command center) is a lovely hotel and restaurant. (Thank goodness—I'd flunk out of one of those courses within a week if not sooner!)<br />
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Arisaig House in the distance.<br />
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Yes, it's official —we're in the right place!<br />
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The flower gardens were victory gardens during WWII.<br />
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The current croquet lawn is where the SOE agents practiced jujitsu and Fairborne Sykes knife fighting. 9Our croet matches have become heated, but not that violent...)<br />
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And you get their by the Jacobite Steam train, a la Harry Potter!<br />
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I'll be doing readings/talks the week of August 7 in New York, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Scottsdale.<br />
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Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-55385185074391717192018-04-09T12:25:00.002-04:002018-04-09T12:25:54.297-04:00THE PARIS SPY—Agatha Award nominee, in trade paperback April 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Delighted to announce that Maggie Hope #7, the New York Times bestseller THE PARIS SPY, has been nominated for an <a href="http://malicedomestic.org/agathas.html">Agatha Award</a>, named for Agatha Christie (natch) and to be given by <a href="http://malicedomestic.org/index.html">Malice Domestic</a> on April 28th.<br />
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THE PARIS SPY is also coming out in trade paperback (yay!) on April 17.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Delighted to reveal the cover for THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE, Maggie Hope #8, scheduled to be published August 7, 2018. The cover's painting is by the amazing <a href="http://www.mickwiggins.com/">Mick Wiggins</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Big news here: just turned in THE PRISONER IN THE CASTLE, Maggie Hope #8 to my editor. It's scheduled to be published on August 7, 2018!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, great news about THE PARIS SPY! It made the <i>New York Times, Washington Post,</i> and <i>Publishers Weekly </i>bestseller lists, and is currently in its third printing after less than three months on sale!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE PARIS SPY, officially out on Tuesday, August 8th!</span><br />
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<br />Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-91667795141080338212017-07-16T14:39:00.000-04:002017-07-16T14:39:31.379-04:00THE PARIS SPY video and author tour dates<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">THE PARIS SPY, Maggie Hope #8, is coming out August 8th! Here's a video, to mark the occasion and serve as a little preview for the novel:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To celebrate, I'll be doing a series of author talks and signings. Cities include Brooklyn, Houston, St. Louis, Scottsdale, Buffalo, Brooklyn again, and Toronto. Hope to see you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Details for THE PARIS SPY author tour below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Susan Elia MacNeal presents the sixth installment in the popular mystery series starring World War II-era spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope. Maggie has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she’s working undercover in the eerily silent city of Paris. When Maggie’s half-sister Elise goes missing, Maggie must employ all her talents for deception and spycraft to root out a traitor, find her sister, and locate the reports crucial to planning D-Day in a deadly game of wits with the Nazi intelligence elite.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><a href="http://danaperino.com/">Dana Perino </a>is a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/">Fox News</a> contributor and co-host of <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/index.html">The Five</a></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;">. She served as White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush and is a nationally renowned media strategist and an active participant in the national political debate, frequently contributing opinion piDeces to <span class="fwb" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://foxnews.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FoxNews.com</a></span>, National Review, and Politico. Perino is a sought-after public speaker about what’s happening in Washington, DC and how it impacts people around the world.</span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When asked on <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/the-five/index.html">The Five</a> what character in a book she'd most like to be, she said Maggie Hope! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Always lovely to get mail from my film/TV rights agent at William Morris — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Ridley">Daisy Ridley</a> (<i>Star Wars</i>, <i>Murder on the Orient Express</i>) has renewed her rights to Maggie Hope and hired a production company. Fingers crossed!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Delighted to share the news that the women's clothing store <a href="https://www.talbots.com/online/home">Talbots</a> is featuring THE PARIS SPY and THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE as part of its new summer book club.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From <a href="http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/talbots-starts-summer-book-club-partners-with-random-house-10883552/">WWD</a>: <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">"As of Memorial Day weekend, Talbots will be expanding the Book Club through a partnership with Random House that will tout some of the publisher’s leading writers. Each week, a different author will be spotlighted in stores and on a designated landing page. On deck are Elizabeth Strout’s “Anything Is Possible,” Nancy Thayer’s “Secrets in Summer,” Lisa Wingate’s “Before We Were Yours,” Fannie Flagg’s “The Whole Town’s Talking” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">and Susan Elia MacNeal’s “The Paris Spy.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Once in full swing, shoppers will be able to get a sneak peek of chapters from their latest books, as well as exclusive interviews with big-name writers."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So very honored (<i>Barry</i> honored, in fact) that THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE, Maggie Hope #6, has been nominated for a <a href="http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2017/02/barry-award-nominees.html">2017 Barry Award</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Barry Award is a literary prize for crime fiction, awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication. The prize is named after </span><b style="color: #222222;">Barry Gardner</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, an American critic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thank you so much — it's an honor to be nominated. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon 2017 in September in Toronto.</span></span><br />
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<br />Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-55443612497651438252017-02-09T15:11:00.001-05:002017-02-09T15:12:26.068-05:00THE PARIS SPY, Maggie Hope #7, to be published August 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE is out and on the <i>USA TODAY</i> and <i>Publishers Weekly </i>bestseller lists, yay!</span></span></h1>
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From the Editor’s Desk: Kate Miciak, Vice President & Director of Editorial for Ballantine Bantam Dell on Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope books </h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It all started with a title on a manuscript submission I couldn’t get out of my brain: <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/202059/mr-churchills-secretary-by-susan-elia-macneal/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;" target="_blank"><em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Fort-Light-Italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">Mr. Churchill’s Secretary</em></a>. OK, I admit to a certain obsession with the British icon–but his <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Fort-Light-Italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">secretary</em>? What must it have been like to work during Britain’s darkest hours with that flamboyant, irascible, outrageously complicated figure? Biographies and memoirs abound of Churchill’s generals, his family, his aides. We know all about his pets, his bathing habits, his socks, favorite drink and books. But his <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Fort-Light-Italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">secretary?</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I turned the manuscript pages, I was hooked. For this debut novel wasn’t merely about life in the shadow of Winston Churchill during those scary, dangerous days of what became known as the “false war”—it was the captivating story of a brilliant, college-educated, ambitious young woman with a flair for math and codes…who found that the only job opening for a woman in wartime UK government was typing and filing: Talk about a glass ceiling!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, she wasn’t even British. She was an American.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An American woman in the Blitz, working at the side of the seminal power makers of the period, forced to elbow her way into a man’s world….And crimson lipstick and cocktails….</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the course of six award-winning novels, Susan and her marvelous creation, Maggie Hope, continue to enthrall me. In these gloriously researched capers, Susan has led Maggie and her spellbound readers down the bomb-torn alleyways of London, into the heart of the UK’s spy network, parachuting into enemy headquarters, conspiring with Eleanor Roosevelt in the very corridors of the White House. She’s crafted an intimate glimpse of young Princess Lisbeth and the Royal Family at Windsor; cavorted with Fala, FDR’s Scottie; and courageously shown us the suffering of those in the concentration camps. More important, she’s stripped away the bald historical facts to inveigle us deep into the hearts of women during war: women making tough choices and sacrifices, surviving, fighting back, courageously holding together their lives and their jobs and their families under unspeakable pressures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a real Mr. Churchill’s secretary, a woman named Elizabeth Nel who worked for the Prime Minister from 1941 to 1945 and even wrote a memoir of it, which begins: <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Fort-Light-Italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">“It doesn’t really matter who I am or where I come from. Without undue modesty, the only thing of real interest about me is that during World War II I worked for four and a half years as one of the Personal Secretaries to Sir Winston Churchill….” </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But Susan MacNeal has proven, time and time again in her marvelous, intriguing novels, that the women behind the scenes <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Fort-Light-Italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">did</em> matter. And that’s the real triumph of the Maggie Hope novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">So far I’ve worked — and missed going on a water park adventure, a hike, to a horse show, and a barbecue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">And I've also played hookey from work (don’t tell my editor!) — to go to the horse stables to watch kiddo, have a lunch date at an amazing French place with my husband, and go swimming with all the kids and then take a nap in a hammock. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000;">Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust into the dangerous hunt for a monster, as the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling mystery series for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry continues.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">England, 1942. The Nazis’ relentless Blitz may have paused, but </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;"> London’s nightly blackouts continue. Now, under the cover of darkness, a madman is brutally killing and mutilating young women in eerie and exact re-creations of Jack the Ripper’s crimes. What’s more, he’s targeting women who are reporting for duty to be Winston Churchill’s spies and saboteurs abroad. The officers at MI-5 quickly realize they need the help of special agent Maggie Hope to find the killer dubbed “the Blackout Beast.” A trap is set. But once the murderer has his sights on Maggie, not even Buckingham Palace can protect the resourceful spy from her fate.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">And the first review, from Kirkus, lauds THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE: <span style="color: #990000;">"<span style="background-color: white;">Maggie ... is a thoughtful spy whose dangerous escapades never disappoint." </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">Thank you! </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">To celebrate, I’m giving away an autographed ARC to one lucky reader, who posts in the comments.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The winds were changing.</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">They were blowing in from the east now, Vera Baines noted, from the East End. Even though the air raids had stopped for the moment in London—as Hitler turned his attentions toward Russia—the docks, railroads, and factories were still burning. Through her open bedroom window, she could smell cold wind scented with smoke and destruction. She watched as it ruffled the bare black branches of the trees of Regent’s Park, rustling dead ivy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">But not on her watch. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">As an ARP warden for her section in Marylebone, Vera Baines knew not only the winds but the intricacies of light and dark. Sunset in London in late March 1942 arrived after six, but the violet shadows began to lengthen at least an hour earlier. This evening’s sunset was extraordinary—bright red, with crepuscular rays piercing wispy clouds. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The man stopped and turned. “Yes, Mrs. Baines?” </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">“I noticed a chink in your blackout curtain on the second floor last night. Please see to it no light is visible from now on.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">In the distance, she could hear the sounds of the city: the faint rumble of motor traffic, the <span style="font-style: italic;">clip-clop </span>of horses’ hooves on cobble- stones, the screeches and flaps of bats off to their night’s hunt. The wind picked up once again, causing the ancient tree branches to sway and creak, the dead leaves and lipstick-stained cigarette butts in the gutters to dance. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">A blond boy in a tweed cap walking past stopped and stared. “What the devil’s going on? Are you all right, ma’am?” </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Vera lifted her chin, squared her shoulders, and deployed the stiff upper lip she’d perfected over a lifetime of practice. “Yes, yes, of course <span style="font-style: italic;">I </span>am,” she reassured him. “But I’m afraid <span style="font-style: italic;">she </span>isn’t,” she added, pointing to the woman’s mutilated body with the silver tip of her walking stick. </span><br />
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(First published on <a href="http://www.jungleredwriters.com/">Jungle Red Writers, www.jungleredwriters.com</a>)</div>
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Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-71601280923867572322016-04-07T09:55:00.004-04:002016-04-07T09:55:44.409-04:00Ta da! The cover for THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE, Maggie Hope #6<span style="font-size: large;">Delighted to release the latest Maggie Hope cover! THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE (Maggie Hope #6) is coming out October 4, 2016. The cover illustration is by the incredible artist and illustrator <a href="http://mickwiggins.com/">Mick Wiggins.</a></span><br />
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<br />Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-89192190295502010912016-02-11T11:24:00.000-05:002016-02-11T11:24:00.989-05:00RIP Xander, a Very Good Cat and Excellent Writing Companion<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'open sans', arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work … the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp … The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.” </span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'open sans', arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">~ Muriel Spark, </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">A Far Cry from Kensington</em></span><br />
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<br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">This week I lost my dear cat, friend, and faithful writing companion, Xander. If you've read any of my books, he was probably pressed up against my leg or on my desk for 99% of the writing, revision, and editing process. He was there for failures and successes, and when I heard about <i>Oprah</i>, I screamed — and I'm sorry to say scared him so much he peed on the floor.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Xander was a stray and had a hard life before we took him in. We used to call him "our little POW" because he had such post-traumatic stress disorder — and really didn't come out from under the bed for a few years! But he came into his own finally and became a confident and spirited member of the family. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-82229954329901750292016-02-11T11:19:00.002-05:002016-02-11T11:19:58.452-05:00A New Year, a New Beginning, a New Maggie Hope Novel<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL: </span>It's January of a new year and I'm starting a new novel — yet-unnamed Maggie Hope #7. <span style="color: #cc0000;">Both the year and the book are pretty much a blank page —</span>something I find inspiring and exhilarating — while also managing the accompanying anxiety and dread. You'd think having written six other novels would help with facing the blank page, but no — it's always a challenge.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">So, what to do?</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I think about my characters — where they are emotionally and physically after the last book. How much time has gone by? </span>What is happening historically? I left Maggie in THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE in March of 1942. Do I pick up where I left off? Or do I let some time go by and start the story later in the spring? If I do start later, I can work in the Vel' d'Hv roundup of the French Jews on July 16, 1942. <span style="color: #cc0000;">Ah, that's an idea....</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I need to work in pen and paper, not just on the computer. So I'll draw things out, especially how the characters are related to each other. Here's a picture I did recently.... The final book may not have anything to do with this drawing, but it's a start.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes, serendipity comes into play. I've corresponded with Colin Fields, the head of the Hemingway Bar at the Paris Ritz, for a cocktails book I wrote. He was gracious and lovely, and so, I'll send him a letter. Getting a backstage look at the Ritz Hotel would be amazing. <span style="color: #cc0000;">I've also been chatting online with fellow novelist and friend <a href="http://carablack.com/" style="color: #fe412b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cara Black</a>, who writes the New York Times-bestselling Aimée Leduc series of books set in Paris. As it turns out, we will be able to coordinate our trips to Paris! Watch out — two novelists on the loose in the City of Light!</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Back to the blank page. I'm still staring at it, as the days of January tick by. In the words of fellow Red Julia, it's like having a term paper due all the time! And so, in a moment of quiet, I start typing. I'm not sure if the scene I write will be int he finished version of the book, but I have to start somewhere. Even if I don't use it, I'm farther along than I was — and when you're pulling together something as huge as a novel, sometimes that's all you can ask for.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-30798478367877898752016-02-11T11:16:00.004-05:002016-02-11T11:16:49.621-05:00Editing THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">SUSAN ELIA MACNEAL: </span>I know I wrote just earlier this week about starting Maggie Hope #7, set in Paris during the Occupation on <a href="http://www.jungleredwriters.com/2016/01/a-new-year-new-beginning-new-novel.html">Jungle Reds</a>, but wouldn't you know it — <span style="color: #cc0000;">just got back copyedits for THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE.</span> So it's a bit of "two steps forward, three steps back." </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">THE QUEEN'S ACCOMPLICE is Maggie Hope novel #6, and set in London. <span style="color: #cc0000;">It's my first serial killer novel, based on the real-life murderer who terrorized London during the Blitz Blackouts. It's also my most "traditional" mystery </span>— since the murder victims are female SOE secret agents tapped to be dropped behind enemy lines in Europe, Maggie is chosen as the special liaison to MI-5 and Scotland Yard, who are working jointly on the case.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This particular novel was also influenced by the Wellcome </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Collection in London's exhibit, "Forensics: Anatomy of a Crime" and the accompanying book by novelist Val McDermid. <span style="color: #990000;">The trick to writing about a murder set in the winter of 1942 is to make sure the forensics used are historically accurate and the exhibition and book were amazingly helpful.</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Aside from the murders and mystery, one of the things I love most about this novel is that we're back in London and get to see a lot of old friends: David Greene, of course, who's still head private secretary to Mr. Churchill. We also catch up with ballet dancer Sarah Sanderson, who's hung up her pointe shoes for a Sten gun, joining the SOE and preparing to be dropped in Paris. Joining her is Hugh Thompson, Maggie's former boyfriend, who's going to be her partner undercover. In MRS. ROOSEVELT'S CONFIDANTE, Maggie made a deal with Mr. Churchill to help her half-sister, Elise Hess, escape from Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she's being held as a political prisoner — and we see how that's going....</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">For copyedits, I like to leave home for a few days. Just really</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">need absolute silence. <span style="color: #cc0000;">"Honey, what's for dinner?" and "Mommy, can I play with Johnny?" break the concentration. </span>So with any luck, a friend will need apartment or housesitting and I'll be able to get away on my own for a bit. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I am excited — and also overwhelmed. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Please wish me luck!</span></span>Susan Elia MacNealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04150123584905352416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900477372401498728.post-55333005285438236562016-02-11T11:09:00.003-05:002016-02-11T11:09:57.829-05:00MRS. ROOSEVELT'S CONFIDANT shortlisted at Left Coast Crime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thrilled to announce MRS. ROOSEVELT'S CONFIDANTE has been shortlisted for Left Coast Crime's Bruce Alexander Historical Fiction Award. I'm honored and overwhelmed to be in such great company!</span><br />
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