Katherine Howe's Blog

In which I confess my affection for the Great Illustrated Classics.

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My long awaited pirate novel is here at last! This is what the Associated Press had to say:

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A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

ASTOR also has a cover!

Coming from Anderson Cooper and me to bookstores everywhere 9/19/23!

Coming from Henry Holt on 11/21/23, and now available for preorder!

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

Is your book club reading THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE HOBBS? I have been hit by a baby train, but here are some discussion questions to last until the paperback.
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
1. Connie is at a stage in her life where she discovers that she has responsibilities to her family and community that might conflict with her ambitions for herself. Have you had to weigh being pulled in two different directions like that? What do you think of how Connie processes her choice?

2. Like Physick Book before it, Daughters has a complicated relationship with ambition, showing that it can be a motivating factor in some cases, but a warping factor in others. How can we tell the difference?

3. Each iteration of the weather work has slightly different wording. Why do you think that is?

4. Magic in Physick World always comes at a cost, either in physical pain, or emotional pain, or possibly even in environmental collapse. Is it worth it?

5. The real life baby is wailing while I try to write question 5. What's up with babies, anyway? Are they magical beasts? Where do they even come from? Isn't it odd that the author would write up fictional babies and then have a real one right after? Weird right? What's up with that?

Hooray hooray hooray! The ten year wait is OVER.

I hope you can come see me on the road this summer

Ten years ago today, when I was 32 in 2009 and Connie Goodwin was 25 in 1991, we were both in grad school and she changed my life. In three weeks, when I am 42 in 2019 and she is 34 in 2000, and I am a novelist and she is a assistant professor getting her tenure packet together, we get to meet again. And, because the universe is not without a sense of humor, we have a new secret in common this time.

I can't wait to see her again.


#physickworld

Pre-order love! If you pre-order THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE HOBBS and upload your receipt here by 6/24, we will send you a book plate signed by my very own self. Only three weeks to go!

#physickworldThe Daughters of Temperance Hobbs

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My events schedule is up for this summer and #physickworld! If you are in MA, TX, OH, VT, ME, or CT I hope to see you.

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