tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-271252722024-03-18T18:24:51.906-05:00Candy's Blogby Candice Proctor, writing as C.S. Harris, C.S. Graham, and herself.cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.comBlogger849125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-12536226582188285442023-09-07T11:58:00.001-05:002023-11-30T20:42:29.712-06:00<p>This blog fell into disuse when my life got complicated. I am leaving it here as a resource because it still contains some twelve years of essays on any number of things. For updates, please check my website at csharris.net. </p>cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-11509363516610383182017-05-01T16:05:00.003-05:002017-05-01T16:23:55.323-05:00WHEN FALCONS FALL Wins RT's Reviewers' Choice Award, and a Visit to Poisoned Pen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a fun picture from my visit to the Poisoned Pen in Arizona last weekend. This is such an great bookstore, it's always a pleasure to visit it. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and met some amazing writers I wish I'd had a chance to get to know better.</div>
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In other news, my little rescue, Kit-Kat, has not been gaining weight despite eating a ton. A trip back to the vet confirmed that her nasty tapeworm infestation is gone, but likely left her with a leaky gut, and she is showing some worrisome fluid in her belly. She's now on steroids, and I'm spending a lot of time fretting about her. We've decided she's older than originally thought, probably at least 10-12. So she's not a young cat, but we're hoping we can help her pull through this.</div>
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And, finally, it's just been announced that<i> </i>WHEN FALCONS FALL has won RT's Reviewers' Choice award for best historical mystery of 2016, which is a tremendous honor. Thank you, RT!</div>
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<br />cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-1919500120853053902017-04-19T11:52:00.000-05:002017-04-19T11:52:35.641-05:00Some Updates, and Saying Goodbye to AngelWhere to begin? I've been pretty godawful sick this last month, which is lousy timing considering my latest Sebastian book, WHERE THE DEAD LIE, was released this month. But I think I'm starting to pull out of it.<br />
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My trip to Houston was fun. Thanks to everyone who came to my signing at Murder By the Book. I'll be in Scottsdale, Arizona, this Saturday at the Poisoned Pen, so if you're in the area, do stop by!<br />
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I was terrified we were going to lose Angel while I was in Houston, but thankfully he waited until the day after I came home to say goodbye. He was my mother's cat until she died 7 years ago, and so in a sense it was like losing my last thread to her. But I also loved him dearly for his own sake. He was an exuberantly affectionate cat, sitting on my lap while I wrote and sleeping curled up in the crook of my arm every night. He was 18 years old and had been failing for the last couple of months, but it's still been really, really hard to lose him.<br />
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And then there's this complication:<br />
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She showed up outside my door the Thursday before Angel died, and was so skinny I called her "My Skeleton." After repeating (over and over again) "I don't need another cat!" and feeding her umpteen cans of food outside (for some reason she can't seem to eat dried) for 12 days without much improvement, I finally scooped her up yesterday and carried her off to the vet. Fortunately her tests for nasty cat diseases were negative, although she was horribly infested with fleas and worms. She's now in isolation until that clears up, and then I'm not sure what I'm doing since I had promised Roscoe and Peanut I was going to let them out of their three-room apartment (Roscoe is a Big Mean Cat who picks on other cats, so I had kept him separated from Angel). This little girl acted virtually feral outside, one of the reasons I hesitated to bring her in (that, plus the old flea collar). But now that she's inside she has surprised me by being very friendly. She really is a pathetic thing, and since Skeleton is an unkind name, she's now Kit-Kat. But she's still a skinny, scruffy mess.<br />
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Beyond that, I've turned in the proposal for Sebastian #14, WHO SLAYS THE WICKED. And I've just learned they lost the model they used for the last few covers--he's gone off to be a fireman. So we'll be having a new guy for the cover of WHY KILL THE INNOCENT. Fingers crossed he looks the part!cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-70849131286335077662017-03-31T22:46:00.000-05:002017-03-31T22:46:51.055-05:00Interview Podcast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did an interview last week with Susan Larson for The Reading Life. It's a great interview, and you can listen to it on podcast here: <a href="http://wwno.org/post/reading-life-john-barry-and-cs-harris">http://wwno.org/post/reading-life-john-barry-and-cs-harris</a><br />
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I talk about the background of <i>Where the Dead Lie </i>and my ideas for the future of the series, as well as my new standalone historical,<i> Good Time Coming</i>. My interview is second, and comes at around 13:40.cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-11883425624793424272017-03-28T10:43:00.001-05:002017-03-28T16:21:04.403-05:00Coming' at Ya in One Week!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One week from today, Tuesday, April 4, is the official release date for WHERE THE DEAD LIE, the twelfth in the Sebastian St. Cyr series. To whet your appetite, here's a sneak peek at the beginning!</div>
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13 September 1813: hours before dawn<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The boy hated this part.
Hated the eerie way the pale, waxen faces of the dead seemed to glow in the
faintest moonlight. Hated being left alone with a stiffening body while he dug
its grave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">He kicked the shovel deep
into the ground and felt his heart leap painfully in his chest when the scrape
of dirt against metal sounded dangerously loud in the stillness of the night.
He sucked in a quick breath, the musty smell of damp earth thick in his
nostrils, his fingers tightening on the smooth wooden handle as he paused to
cast a panicked glance over one shoulder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">A mist was drifted up from
the Fleet to curl around the base of the nearby shot tower and creep along the
crumbling brick walls of the abandoned warehouses beyond it. He heard a dog
bark somewhere in the distance and, nearer, a soft thump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The boy waited, his mouth
dry, his body tense and trembling. But the sound was not repeated. He swiped a
ragged sleeve across his sweaty face, swallowed hard, and bent into his work.
He was uncomfortably aware of the cloaked gentleman watching from the seat of
the cart that waited at the edge of the field. The gentleman had helped drag
Benji’s body over to the looming shot tower. But he never helped dig. Gentlemen
didn’t dig graves, although they could and did kill with a vicious delight that
made the boy shiver as he threw another shovelful of dirt onto the growing
pile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The hole was beginning to
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The boy’s head snapped
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">A ragged, skeletally thin
figure lurched from the gaping doorway of one of the tumbledown warehouses.
“Wot ye doin’ there?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The shovel hit the ground
with a clatter as the boy bolted. He fell into the newly dug grave and went
down, floundering in the loose dirt. Feet flailing, he reared up on splayed
hands, found solid ground, and pushed off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">“Oye!” shouted the ghostly
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The boy tore across the
uneven field, his breath soughing in and out, his feet pounding. He saw the
gentleman in the cart jerk, saw him gather the reins and spank them hard
against his horse’s rump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">“Wait for me!” screamed
the boy as the cart lurched forward, its iron-rimmed wheels rattling over the rutted
lane. “Stop!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The gentleman urged the horse
into a wild canter. He did not look back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The boy leapt a low,
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The cart careened around
the corner and out of sight, but the boy tore after it anyway. Surely the
gentleman would stop for him? He wouldn’t simply leave him, would he? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The boy was sobbing now,
his nose running, his chest aching as he fought to draw air into his lungs. It
wasn’t until he reached the corner himself that he dared risk a frantic look
back. That’s when he realized the skeletal figure wasn’t following him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century schoolbook";">The man—for the boy saw
now that it was a man and not some hideous apparition—had paused beside the
raw, unfinished grave. And he was staring down at what was left of Benji
Thatcher. </span></div>
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Penguin is giving away a set of the entire Sebastian St. Cyr series, up to and including an Advance Readers Copy of <i>Where the Dead Lie</i>. The link to enter is:<br />
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You can enter until 11:59 ET on March 29th. Unfortunately, entry is restricted to U.S. residents only. But it's a pretty cool offer. Good luck!cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-53389220523486498142017-03-09T15:00:00.002-06:002017-03-09T15:00:55.191-06:00WHERE THE DEAD LIE Upcoming Events<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've finally finished Sebastian St. Cyr #13, WHY KILL THE INNOCENT (coming April 2018) and now started on Sebastian #14, WHO SLAYS THE WICKED (coming April 2019). If you've been following my family's various health issues, I can say that Peanut is now fully recovered, fat, and sassy, Angel (who recently had his 18th birthday) is still hanging in there (although he gave us a scare by first getting a bad cold, then by falling off the dryer and hurting his back), and my son-in-law has just undergone a scary surgery which hopefully will fix or at least improve his long string of health crises. We're now 72 hours out from that.<br />
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AND things are about to get hectic with my upcoming book release. Here is my current schedule. If you live anywhere in the area of one of these events, I hope you can come by and say hi!<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, WHEN FALCONS FALL, Sebastian #12, is now out in trade paperback. My publisher has switched their paperback reprints from mass market size to trade because, bluntly, the market for the little paperbacks is drying up and a lot of outlets don't carry them any more. The New York Times has even quit printing a mass market paperback bestseller list, which is really hard for me to wrap my head around! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be interesting to see what effect, if any, the change has on the paperback sales, although the truth is my sales have always been strongest in hardcover and ebook. But I know the switch will be rough on all you OCD types out there. Believe me, I understand. </span><br />
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At any rate, here is the charming review Kirkus just gave WHERE THE DEAD LIE. They think the book is a tad "bleak." Because Kirkus has a tendency to give away too much, I have edited it slightly. But be sure not to miss the last couple of sentences; they're real charmers!<br />
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London's most vulnerable denizens. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his
former comrade in arms, surgeon Paul Gibson, have seen more than their share of
violent death in wartime. But neither one can look calmly at the body of Benji
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testimony of an old soldier who saw and interrupted someone digging Benji's
grave as a starting point for finding out what happened not just to Benji, but
to a number of other homeless children who've disappeared. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16pt;">The owner of a
secondhand store helps direct Sebastian to a brothel catering to clients who
like their prostitutes young, and contraband copies of a book by the Marquis de
Sade bring Sebastian closer to identifying the person responsible for the
pitiful collections of children's bones buried near the shallow grave meant for
Benji. Unfortunately, Sebastian's suspects—an actor, a French count, a
dissolute marquis' heir about to marry into Sebastian's family, and an even
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sleuthing in a tale that, despite top boots and tall hats, velvet spencers and
gowns <i>à la grecque</i>, and even a cat named Mr. Darcy, is a far cry from the world
of Jane Austen. Harris (<i>When Falcons Fall,</i> 2016, etc.) is as determined as her
lead couple to explore London's underbelly. Hold onto your carriage strap: the
tangle of familial, criminal, and political conflict makes for bleak reading.</span></div>
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Do you make New Year's resolutions? I read the other day that one should call them "intentions"--the theory being that relabeling them might make them less intimidating and help us feel less of a failure when we inevitably stumble.<br />
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I usually do make them, and they're typically the same ones every year: eat healthily, exercise more, get more sleep, stop wasting time. I actually do eat healthily most days (the result of some twenty years of making the same resolution), and I exercise when my aching joints allow. The sleep and time-wasting are still a work in progress.<br />
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Another of my resolutions this year is to be better at keeping this blog. I do like to be upbeat on it because nobody needs a Debbie Downer, and last year was such a rolling series of disasters that I found it increasingly hard to strike the necessary note. Maybe this year . . .<br />
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I can tell you that having my girls home for Christmas was beyond wonderful (and Maddie and Zydeco! I've really missed those two. Look how big and fat Maddie is!). My little Peanut is now just fine. One thing I learned from our vet is that runts of the litter, when they hit 7-8, usually start having health problems. So another of my resolutions is to spoil her. She's not complaining.<br />
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I'm back at work on my next Sebastian book (tentatively entitled <i>Why Kill the Innocent</i>), and the end is finally, finally within sight. I've reached the point where I'm more than anxious to move on to #14 (<i>Who Slays the Wicked</i>--love that title). I'm also looking forward to the release of WHERE THE DEAD LIE, coming in April. It has already received a nice <i>Publishers Weekly</i> review, which I should be able to share soon. This is undoubtedly my darkest book, by far. I wonder why?<br />
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I will be going over to San Antonio again in few weeks to be with my daughter while her husband undergoes major surgery. Another of my resolutions this year is to try to stay calm and meditate more.<br />
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I have both my girls coming home this holiday season: Samantha and her husband (and Maddie, Zydeco, Loki, and Odin, too) are here already, and Danielle and Ryan arrive the day after Christmas. The fact that they're all going to be here at the same time set me on a mad scramble to paint Dani's old room and get it fixed up with a double bed in time for the holidays. But everything is now finished--room painted, bed delivered, tree up, house decorated, presents wrapped. I've shelved my writing until after the new year (with just 35 pages left in the 13th Sebastian book!), and now I'm simply settling down to enjoy my family and the holidays.<br />
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It's a full house, with eight cats, one dog, four people, and two more soon to come (thankfully Danielle's two cats aren't coming, too!), but Maddie is the Queen and she knows it. She is SO BIG, and still as sweet (and bad) as ever. She especially likes the village under the tree. Ahem.<br />
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First, an update on Peanut: She's still with us, and while I don't want to jinx anything, she seems to have turned a corner. She's now eating on her own and is bathing herself, and we've been able to stop the subcutaneous fluids. It's been a hard (and expensive!!!) two weeks, and we're still not relaxing entirely, but we're hopeful. She also now officially hates my guts.</div>
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Today is the U.S. publication date for GOOD TIME COMING, my standalone historical, that should now be available everywhere in all formats.<br />
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I'd planned to do all sorts of promotional things for this book, but they all collapsed in the face of the awful year that has been 2016. At the moment we're fighting to keep alive our little Peanut, the runt of the litter my daughter rescued just seven years ago. So I will post links here to two interviews I've done in which I talk about the book and my writing. The interviewers asked some great questions and are well worth the read.<br />
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The first is with Layered Pages at:<br />
https://layeredpages.com/2016/12/01/interview-with-best-selling-author-c-s-harris/<br />
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The second is here:<br />
https://nicoleevelina.com/2016/11/28/interview-with-bestselling-historical-novelist-c-s-harris/<br />
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More soon, hopefully. I just want this year to end.<br />
<br />cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-86667859824428121882016-11-04T15:58:00.000-05:002016-11-04T15:58:49.660-05:00PW's Review of GOOD TIME COMINGhttp://csharris.blogspot.com/<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My new standalone historical, GOOD TIME COMING, has received a wonderful review from <i>Publishers Weekly.</i> Here are a few excerpts (I'm not printing the entire thing because I thought it gave away a bit too much of the story):</div>
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<i>In a distinct departure from her popular Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series, Harris tells a powerful story of war's destruction of property, people, hopes and morals during the Civil War in Louisiana. This is top-notch historical fiction, thoroughly researched and vividly presented, revealing the Civil War in all its brutality. . . </i></div>
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When I was a kid, my favorite time of year was always summer. It was a no brainer: no school, and long days spent playing outside in the sun or reading, reading, reading. As the mother of young children I still loved summer, spent largely at the beach or exploring the Adelaide Hills with my girls. Then I moved to New Orleans. Summers here are brutal and endless, and my heat tolerance seems to have gone away. So my new favorite season is autumn, when the mornings are actually cool and I can work out in the garden without suffering heat stroke. It's wonderful.<br />
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I'm still chugging away at my next Sebastian book, #13, which still has no title (yeah, I'm starting to panic about that). It should be finished by now, but I am having a hard time concentrating thanks to the election. (I will be so glad when it is over!) I've also been doing the research for the World War II novella I'll be writing. Research is always fun, and it's the one thing that can distract me from obsessively reading about the you-know-what.<br />
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My new standalone historical, GOOD TIME COMING, has received some wonderful reviews, including a starred review from <i>Booklist.</i> I hope to get those up next week. In other news, Steve is gradually improving, but my son-in-law had surgery last week and we're waiting on test results. Scary times. On a lighter note, here's a picture my daughter sent me of Maddie, who's growing up fast. She and Zydeco may be coming to stay with us again. More soon.<br />
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Yeah, I know I've been MIA again. So, THINGS:<br />
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First of all, I've spent the last few weeks going over the galleys for WHERE THE DEAD LIE, coming in April 2017. This is always exciting because it means the book is that much closer to going into production. I've also been correcting the galleys for the paperback version of WHEN FALCONS FALL. Penguin has decided to shift the paperback releases from mass market size to trade. Some people love trade paperbacks, some people hate them. (And others with my OCD tendencies will no doubt object to their collection of the series now being in different sizes--grrr.) The rationale for the change is that outlets such as Target prefer trades and others such as Barnes and Noble keep trades in the store longer than mm. My mm sales have always been sluggish since my readers tend to buy my books when they first come out in either hardcover or ebook. So basically they are looking for new readers who typically buy trade paperbacks. Anyway, here's the cover for the new trade reprint. I asked them to put more of the original blue and green coloration back in the painting, and they sorta did.<br />
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Bouchercon was fun but a bit hectic, and marred by the fact that the hotel had a bad case of mold in their ventilation system. Katrina left me with mold-agrevated adult-onset asthma, so that's part of why I've been missing the last few weeks. Anyway, my panel was great, and Andrew Grant proved to be a fantastic moderator. But what I want to know is, Why do I look like a little kid in this picture? Am I really this short?! Or was everyone else on that panel tall?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And now for the big reveal: <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">I am taking part in a new historical mystery anthology with Susanna Kearsley, Anna Lee Huber, and Christine Trent. Currently titled THE JACOBITE'S WATCH and pitched as in the tradition of<i> The Red Violin</i>, this collection of four novellas will range from the mid-1700s until World War II and tell the story of an infamous pocket watch that wrecks havoc in the lives of those who seek to contain its mysterious force. My novella will be the final one, set in World War II in Kent. The anthology is scheduled to be published sometime in 2018, and should be a lot of fun. So more on this to come.</span></span><br />
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And, finally, thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts on our recent troubles. My son-in-law is improving daily (although a diagnosis as to what caused his near-death experiences is frighteningly still elusive . . .) Steve has his cast off and is slowly regaining strength in his leg; I've now hurt MY leg and can barely walk. (I'm beginning to think it's a curse . . . ) Fortunately, I no longer have the dog to exercise, although Steve and I both miss Maddie and Zydeco desperately. We're looking forward to them coming to visit at Christmas. (Oh, yeah, my daughter and s-i-l will be coming, too!)<br />
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Bouchercon, the premier mystery convention, is happening this week in New Orleans, and yes I will be there, if not exactly with bells on. </div>
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I'll be on a panel at 9:30 am Friday in Mardi Gras Room D. Also on Friday I'll be doing a Sebastian St. Cyr book sig<span style="font-family: inherit;">ning at 2:40 in the Bookworm. AND I'll be signing Good Time Coming at 12:40 on Thursday in the Bookworm. This standalone historical isn't officially released in the States until December, but they will have co</span>pies there for sale. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">In other news, I took Zydeco and Maddie back to San Antonio this past weekend, which was an extraordinarily hard thing to do. One can grow enormously attached to furry little guys in six weeks. But my son-in-law is slowly improving, and he really wanted his friends back to cuddle while he convalesces. Plus, with the convention coming up, I would have needed to board Zydeco for five days and that would not have been good for his psyche. We were hoping Steve would be walking well enough by this week to take over while I was gone, but a few weeks ago he tried to do too much, fell, and broke his right leg (yes; really). So now he's in a cast. Thankfully it isn't a bad break.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But I really missed my tail-wagging companion on my walk this morning. And sitting down to write without little missy's help is just wrenching. On the other hand, Angel is very glad to have his house and people back to himself.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I killed a man the summer I turned
thirteen . . . <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Thus begins C. S. Harris’s haunting,
lyrically beautiful tale of coming of age in Civil War-torn Louisiana.
Eleven-year-old Amrie St. Pierre is catching tadpoles with her friend Finn
O’Reilly when the Federal fleet first steams up the Mississippi River in the
spring of 1862. With the surrender of New Orleans, Amrie’s sleepy little
village of St. Francisville – strategically located between the last river
outposts of Vicksburg and Port Hudson – is now frighteningly vulnerable. As the
roar of canons inches ever closer and food, shoes, and life-giving medicines
become increasingly scarce, Amrie is forced to grow up fast. But it is her own
fateful encounter with a tall, golden-haired Union captain named Gabriel that
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women and children left alone to face the hardships, depravations, and dangers
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cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-79118877318307271342016-08-19T10:49:00.000-05:002016-08-24T17:51:05.118-05:00A Book Giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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THE CONTEST IS NOW OVER.<br />
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The winners are:<br />
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The books are going to:<br />Winter's Child by Margaret Coel - Diane Johnson<br />Blood Defense by Marcia Clark - Becky Denham<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />Who Buried the Dead by C. S. Harris - Penny Tuttle<br />Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews - April Schilling<br />Books of a Feather by me - Laurie Metz<br />Knit to be Tied by Maggie Sefton - Tom Williams<br />The Last Good Place by Robin Burcell - Author - Robin Gandy Harsh<br />What You See by Hank Phillippi Ryan - Judi Robins<br />Dead Man's Switch by Tammy Kaehler (author) - Kasey Dunham</span></div>
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Thank you so much to everyone who entered. I hope you had as much fun with this giveaway as we did!</div>
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Almost every writer I know has what we call a "book of the heart." It's a story idea that grabs our imagination and won't let go even though we know there's something about the story that will make it really, really hard to sell to New York. Sometimes that "hard sell" aspect is setting (Outer Mongolia, anyone?); sometimes it's subject matter (say, American atrocities in WWII).<br />
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The book of my heart is called GOOD TIME COMING. It's a story idea that possessed me way back in 2001, when I was writing my Civil War mystery, <i>Midnight Confessions</i>. As I did the research for that novel, I found I wanted to write a different book: the story of the war in Louisiana as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old girl. I wanted to write about the war the women and children lived; how they survived increasing hardship and danger, and how it changed them.<br />
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I started reading diaries and letters and memoirs by the hundreds: I visited Civil War battle sites like Port Hudson, Bayou Sara, and Camp Moore. And then, in the autumn of 2012 when I finished <i>Why Kings Confess</i> comfortably ahead of deadline, I seized the moment. In a white heat of 18+ hour days, seven days a week, I wrote GOOD TIME COMING.<br />
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I'd never written anything like it before and I was more than a bit worried about my ability to pull it off. But I can honestly say the manuscript exceeded my wildest expectations. I sent it to my agent, and she was over the moon. It quickly found several editors who waxed poetical about it. One called it "a women's <i>Red Badge of Courage</i>"; another said it was like <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> meets <i>Cold Mountain. </i>But in the end, no New York publishing house would buy it.<br />
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Why? Because of the subject matter. The Civil War in Louisiana was not pretty. U.S. soldiers did terrible things here, things that most Americans would rather not know about. At the same time, Southerners did things their descendants would rather forget. Look at those days through the unblinkingly honest eyes of a thirteen-year-old, and you have a story that terrifies New York.<br />
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For three years that manuscript languished in my cupboard. To say I was heartbroken would be a massive understatement--I mean, this was the book of my heart, right? But I can now tell you that the book no American house had the courage to print has finally found a publisher--a British publisher. It will be released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa in September, and in the U.S. in December.<br />
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I've been sitting on this news for a while now and I've been about to burst. The last time I felt this giddy was back in 1997, when I sold my very first novel. I am really, really proud of this book, so you'll be hearing more about it soon.cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-29406383934670367952016-08-08T17:02:00.000-05:002016-08-08T17:02:16.802-05:00Ch-ch-changesIt was a busy weekend. It started off on Friday with this thrilling moment: my younger daughter going through the graduation ceremony for her PhD.<br />
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I'll freely admit that I cried all through Pomp and Circumstance. I kept thinking how proud my father would have been if he could have been there, for she is our third generation PhD. (My older daughter says she's the black sheep of the family because she got an MD.)<br />
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And then Saturday I drove over to San Antonio to pick up my older daughter's dog and new kitten. Her husband has been dangerously ill for weeks now, and she was spending so much time at the hospital, plus half-killing herself driving back and forth to take care of the animals, that I volunteered to go pick them up and bring them home. If Steve had been well, I'd have just gone and stayed there to help, but I could only leave because Danielle was here over the weekend to stay with him.<br />
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One of the last things my son-in-law did before almost dying was to pick up this little cutie in a vast Target parking lot, where someone had abandoned her on a scorching hot Texas afternoon. So she is very dear to us all.<br />
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But the upshot is I have now added a dog and a holy terror of a twelve-week kitten to our menagerie. Angel is having a fit (this could never have happened if Huck were still here, because he not only really, really hated dogs, but would attack them--and any tiny kitten that came near him.) We're hoping my son-in-law will be well enough in a few months that their babies can go home. But as of now, we have a full house and a lot of unhappy critters.<br />
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<br />cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-58214060200807013052016-08-03T11:24:00.002-05:002016-08-03T11:25:33.911-05:00Cover Reveal: WHERE THE DEAD LIE<div style="text-align: center;">
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Here's the cover copy for WHERE THE DEAD LIE, the next Sebastian St. Cyr mystery, coming April 2017. Cover reveal coming soon!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of WHEN FALCONS FALL, the gruesome murder of a young boy takes Sebastian St. Cyr from the gritty streets of London to the glittering pleasure haunts of the aristocracy . . .</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />LONDON, 1813.</b> Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is no stranger to the dark side of the city, but he’s never seen anything like this: the brutalized body of a fifteen-year-old boy dumped into a makeshift grave on the grounds of an abandoned factory.<br /><br />One of London’s many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and tortured before his murder--and his younger sister is still missing. Few in authority care about a street urchin’s fate, but Sebastian refuses to let this killer go unpunished. <br /><br />Uncovering a disturbing pattern of missing children, Sebastian is drawn into a shadowy, sadistic world. As he follows a grim trail that leads from the writings of the debauched Marquis de Sade to the city’s most notorious brothels, he comes to a horrifying realization: someone from society’s upper echelon is preying upon the city’s most vulnerable. And though dark, powerful forces are moving against him, Sebastian will risk his reputation and his life to keep more innocents from harm . . .</span>cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-39363670662124942682016-07-20T08:19:00.000-05:002016-07-20T08:19:39.773-05:00Not WhiningThis isn't intended as a whine, but I thought I'd let you know what's going on in my life at the moment.<br />
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My husband is suffering a spinal problem that is making it hard for him to walk, impossible for him to drive, and causing him enormous pain. My life has been consumed for the past three weeks with medical appointments and physical therapy and picking up all the minutiae of our daily life that he normally takes care of, all under a huge cloud of worry. In the midst of this, Huckleberry died; my daughter is getting ready to move to North Carolina (I had planned to make the drive with her but now can't leave Steve), and we've also had air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical problems that make it feel like the Fates are throwing mud at us.<br />
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I am also trying to keep writing Sebastian #13 and shepherd two books toward publication. Yes, two. I should be able to reveal the cover for WHERE THE DEAD LIE, #12, very soon. And I will also finally, finally be able to talk about that other book--the non-Sebastian one--that I've been hinting about for what seems like forever. Stay tuned.cs harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708705800818667923noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27125272.post-90838268175639352062016-07-06T17:41:00.003-05:002016-07-06T17:56:22.515-05:00Huckleberry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As many of you know, Sebastian and Hero's big, long-haired black cat was inspired by my own inimitable Huckleberry.<br />
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Huckleberry came to us as a tiny kitten just months after we moved to the States. Big, beautiful, smart, vain, and highly intolerant of most other cats, he was never demonstrative<i> </i>(you were allowed to hold him--only like a baby--for perhaps two minutes, then he'd had enough). But he was always, always, intensely affectionate, and he pined miserably whenever I left him, even for a few days. He followed me around the house all day, sleeping in the To Be Filed basket under my desk or in the special box I kept just for him under the coffee table near where I sit to write my books in longhand. He went with me up to the lake on my weeklong writing retreats--an excursion he always loved because he got to be an only cat. At night he slept on a dolls' bunkbed at the foot of my bed--Huck on the top bunk, Thomasina (his foster mom, adopted as a two-year-old rescue at the same time) on the bottom.<br />
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I love all my cats, but Huck was my special baby. He was at my side (meowing) through all the heartache and horror of Katrina and its aftermath. He comforted me when my mother died and when my girls spread their wings and flew. Three years ago I almost lost him to a flare of what we discovered was chronic toxoplasmosis (most cats are able to wall it off; Huck couldn't, and I learned it had killed his mother at age 8). I knew it would only be a matter of time before it flared again. I strongly suspect his grief over Thomasina's death six weeks ago sent his immune system into a tailspin that left him vulnerable.<br />
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Yesterday, I had to thank my darling for all the joy and love, laughter and sweet, sweet memories he brought into my life, and said goodbye. He has left a giant hole in my heart and in my life, and I am frankly devastated.<br />
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I've spent the last week going over the copyedited manuscript of WHERE THE DEAD LIE. Once upon a time I would get my original paper manuscript back with the copyeditor's marks on it. Now it's all done electronically with Track Changes. I liked the old way much better. Now I have to sit in front of the computer for hours and hours going through each of the copyeditor's little bubbles. Then I make a duplicate of the file, leave in all the changes but take out the bubbles, print out a clean manuscript, and go sit someplace comfortable and spend a couple of days reading it.<br />
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This is my last chance to make any changes. I will see the manuscript one more time before it is published, but at that stage I'll be reading galley proofs and the only things I'm allowed to change are typos or glaring mistakes (like calling a character by the wrong name).<br />
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I thought those of you who are not writers might be interested to see some of the copyedits (if you click on the images they will enlarge). I write fairly clean copy, although since my focus is always on story and flow, I can miss some dumb mistakes (like writing Eden when I meant Eton!). I always appreciate my copyeditors because they save me enormous embarrassment. I worry when I catch a dozen things after a copyeditor has already gone through a manuscript because I know that means some things are inevitably slipping past us. It's impossible for me to ignore story for words, so I'm a lousy proofreader. And then of course the copyeditors always change things I want put back the way they were.<br />
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Also this week I received the first version of the cover. It needs some modification, and it will be a while before I have approval to show it, but I'm going to cheat and share this screenshot of part of it because it's so striking--and because it's always sooo exciting when a manuscript inches this much closer to being a real book:<br />
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