Oh, this one is so lovely! As a longtime Washington City Paper reader, I’m thrilled to see my name pop up in its pages, and the warm words of praise for The Arctic Fury are the icing on the proverbial cake.

The whole write-up is so good I could quote it in its entirety, but here are a couple of quick highlights:

“‘In the front row sit the survivors,’ begins The Arctic Fury, D.C. author Greer Macallister’s fourth novel. Like all of her books, this one intertwines history and the female gaze in stunning detail. Macallister writes women like no one else, her characters’ strengths and shortcomings vividly magnified by the societies and even geography that would diminish them.”

Love it! And also this:

“We care deeply for [these] characters, believe in what they fight for, but never feel lectured or pulled out by a modern point of view. These women live and shine brightly in their own time—exactly as historical fiction should read.”

And if you do want to read the whole thing, you can! The whole piece rounds up several upcoming books from DC-area authors, including They’re Gone, from Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar, writing under the pseudonym E.A. Barres — a book I can’t wait to read, and an author I’m sharing a panel with at the Fairfax County Public Library (check out the details on my Events page, won’t you? Registration is a must.)

Here's the whole round-up.