Where Shadow Dance

Exclusive interview with author C.S. Harris and a review of her new Sebastian St. Cyr mystery novel about murder and mayhem *** 3Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/18/2011- “Where Shadows Dance actually twists together two ideas,” says author C.S. Harris. “The first revolves around some very real diplomatic skullduggery that took place in that pivotal summer of 1812, when Napoleon invaded Russia. Wellington began to turn the tide in the Peninsula, and there was a critical realignment of alliances that ultimately led to the defeat of France. But the premise that kicks off the book, when surgeon and anatomist Paul Gibson discovers that the cadaver he’s just bought from London’s notorious body snatchers was secretly murdered, (more…)

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Celebrating Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer’s fiction and nonfiction novels on Sale August 15-August 21, 2011 to celebrate her birthday.

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/18/2011- Georgette Heyer would have been 109th birthday on Tuesday, August 16. Heyer is considered the Queen of Regency romance.

Sourcebook  is honoring this most beloved author by discounting all 46 Heyer eBooks in their current catalog to $1.99 for one week starting August 15^th through August 21^st.

Also available is Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester. This  is a reader companion book also for $1.99 from August 15-August 21.

Celebrate Heyer writing and fall in love with Regency romance, mysteries, historical and historical non fiction books as e-books.

Remember the promotion start Monday August 15^th, 2011.

I’ve included the full list of Heyer titles available separated by category: (more…)

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Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

Exclusive interview with author Catriona McPherson and a review of her new novel about female detective Dandy Gilver *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/10/2011 – “I went on day trips to Georgian houses in Edinburgh and called it a day’s work,” says Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains author Catriona McPherson. “I visited Victorian mansions and Renaissance castles all over Scotland, dedicated researcher me, and everywhere I went the same thing happened. I’d ask a question of the guide.  And another. And some more and then they’d ask me why I wanted to know.  And when I told them I was writing a book, they’d say ‘Ohhhh!’ and go and get a big bunch of keys and take me round all the bits of the mansion or castle that the public don’t usually get to see.  For a nosey person who loves old houses, it was heaven.”

Dandy Gilver is a detective who is also an aristocrat. Dandy receives a letter (more…)

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The Magdalena Curse

Exclusive interview with author F.G. Cottam and a review of his new novel about curses and how they affect people *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!Radio) 7/28/2011 – “My sorceress Mrs. Mallory has been alive rather longer than her svelte and sultry appearance suggests,” says The Magdalena Curse author F.G.Cottam. “And she’s been about a bit. I researched Rupert Brooke’s sojourn in Berlin prior to the Great War. I did some re-reading about the Third Reich in the 1930s. I read quite a lot about Bolivia, where my protagonist is sent to join a Special Forces unit (more…)

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Mermaid Garden

Exclusive interview with author Santa Montefiore and a review of her new novel of mystery and love set in Tuscany and England **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/21/2011 – “I love writing mysteries where there’s a twist,” says Mermaid Garden author Santa Montefiore. “It gives me something to get my teeth into and is always a challenge to pull off. I wanted to write two story lines that link together, one in Italy in Tuscany and the other on the English coast of Devon. They’re beautiful places and very different. I love the sea. It’s very evocative. (more…)

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Catriona

Exclusive interview with author Jeanette Baker and a review of her newly rereleased historical time travel novel *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/13/2011 – “While visiting Stirling Castle in Scotland, I climbed the stairs to the watchtower where Margaret Tudor, daughter to Henry VII of England and wife to James IV of Scotland, waited for her husband to return from the Battle of Flodden Moor,” says author of Catriona Jeanette Baker. “The battle was particularly difficult (more…)

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Elizabeth I, the queen of Shakespeare

Exclusive interview with author Margaret George and a review of her new novel about Queen Elizabeth and life in the age of Shakespeare *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/12/2011- “The number one question people ask is: ‘Was she really a virgin?’ ,” says Elizabeth I author Margaret George. “They seem obsessed with this and worried that she missed out on some fun. They keep asking me for proof that she was one way or the other, which is of course impossible to judge hundreds of years later.”

“My novel about Elizabeth starts where most stop, at the Armada,” says George. “To me that is the most interesting part of her reign. She is at the height of her power but most in danger of (more…)

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Phoenix Rising, A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

Exclusive interview with co-authors Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine, with a review of their new steampunk novel *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 6/21/2011-“I have been itching to write something in a steampunk setting since discovering this sub-genre of science fiction,” says Phoenix Rising co-author Tee Morris. “Pip wanted to try a podcast-for-pay model, and offered up the idea of a spinoff to this book that had barely a chapter and a half completed. We were going to (more…)

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Exclusive interview with author Gabrielle Donnelly and a review of her new book The Little Women Letters, a bond of sisters that spans generations **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 6/16/2011 – “Orchard House, the house in Concord, Massachusetts, where Louisa May Alcott lived while she was writing Little Women, was her model for the March family home,” says The Little Women Letters author Gabrielle Donnelly. “The house is now a Little Women museum. It’s as magical a place as it sounds. Walking inside is like stepping into the pages of Little Women itself.”

The idea for The Little Women Letters came from an editor at Michael Joseph who asked, what would happen if Jo March’s great-great-granddaughter found a cache of her ancestor’s letters? (more…)

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Exclusive interview with author Jo Beverley and a review of her new novel An Unlikely Countess *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 5/19/2011 –“I can’t remember why I decided that Cate’s brother was a collector of rare trees,” says An Unlikely Countess author Jo Beverley. “When I was describing the park at Keynings as Cate returns home, I put in a weeping willow for a bit of mourning imagery. The weeping willow was only just being introduced to England. It was failing to thrive, even in the south.”

An Unlikely Countess draws the reader right in. Beverley builds the world (more…)

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