WOMAN 99 on sale for just $1.99!

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Quick burst of news about something other than THE ARCTIC FURY! My novel of fierce women banding together against a rigged system, set in an 1880s insane asylum, is on sale across all e-book platforms for a mere $1.99 — today only!

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Click quick for the BookBub page, and you can jump to your favorite e-book platform from there. Or go ahead and hit your platform directly — the deal will show up wherever!

(Did you hear there’s going to be a TV series based on the book, starring Nina Dobrev? I KNOW!)

giveaway for WOMAN 99 and THE EXILES!

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I’m currently reading an advance copy of Christina Baker Kline’s fabulous new novel THE EXILES, which follows a trio of women in 19th-century Australia through hardship, oppression and opportunity. Though set in the 1840s, the issues it covers still resonate today: the gendered nature of power, societal and individual struggles with inequity, prison systems and the theft of native lands. It’s also just a cracking good story.

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There are two fun coincidences between our latest work, one of which is driving the giveaway announced below:

Since Christina and I both draw on real-world history, it turns out we have a couple of real-life characters in common! Before he disappeared on the Arctic expedition that inspired my upcoming novel THE ARCTIC FURY, John Franklin was the Governor of Van Diemen’s Land (modern-day Tasmania,) and he and his wife Jane figure heavily in the plot of THE EXILES.

The other coincidence has to do with a pair of exciting recent announcements: both THE EXILES and my novel WOMAN 99 have been optioned for TV production by the same company, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories! Read about Christina’s deal here and mine here.

So: want to win a copy each of THE EXILES and WOMAN 99 before their adaptations come to a screen near you? Check out the giveaway details and enter by signing up for my newsletter, visiting my Facebook page or Tweeting a message. Deadline is August 15.

deep discount today on WOMAN 99!

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Just a quick note to say that if you don’t yet have a copy of WOMAN 99 for your e-reader, today’s the day to grab one! It’s $2.99 today across all e-book platforms (Kobo, Kindle, Nook, Google Play, you name it!)

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In addition to the cheerful snippets above, here’s one of my favorite reviews:

“Macallister follows up The Magician’s Lie with a novel of the power of sisterhood, shining a spotlight on the barbaric treatment of the mentally ill in this period as well as society’s view of women who don’t fit the ‘traditional’ mold. Readers will become engrossed in Charlotte’s journey of self-discovery as she fights to free herself and her sister from a rigged system.”– Library Journal (Editor’s Pick)

Ready to buy? Just click here for all the linkage.

Thanks, and happy reading!

(And by the way, if you’d like some WOMAN 99 discussion questions for your book club, you can find them here.)

7 answers with Kim Taylor Blakemore

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I love being interviewed by other authors, and I recently had the opportunity to answer seven questions from Kim Taylor Blakemore, author of THE COMPANION, as part of her “7 Authors 7 Questions 7 Days” series. In the process, I talked about my writing process, the themes I find myself revisiting (“Power, love, ambition, regret. You know, the fun stuff.”) and the theme songs I crank up to pump myself up for a writing session.

Click here to read it all!

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My essay on Charlotte Perkins Gilman is up at LitHub!

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Behind-the-scenes glimpse: I wrote this essay, from scratch, twice. I spent a full week pulling research tidbits, choosing quotes from “The Yellow Wallpaper,” synthesizing my argument, citing my sources, tweaking every sentence — and one morning before boarding a plane for a book event, as I went to send it to my publicist so she could submit it for consideration, I went to attach the 1000-word file I’d worked so hard on, and then… nothing. All traces of the file had disappeared from my computer, somehow. I swore I’d saved as I went along, but the filename didn’t even appear in any of the directories on my Mac. All that work had vanished.

I was not happy.

But I’ve always wanted to have an essay on LitHub, and I desperately wanted to tell this Charlotte’s story (in addition to the fictional Charlotte Smith’s story that I tell in Woman 99, and you’ll see in the essay how these two are linked), so I went ahead and boarded my plane, and as soon as the voice over the loudspeaker said “We have reached cruising altitude… you may now use laptop computers,” I started all over again.

The good news was that it went faster the second time. The even better news was that LitHub accepted it for publication. It went live a few days ago and the response has been wonderful to see.

And now all you have to do is click here — once — to read it.

WOMAN 99 recommended for your book club!

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The wonderful Kate Quinn, author of the runaway bestseller The Alice Network and the upcoming The Huntress, put together a fabulous list of historical fiction recommendations for book clubs at BookBub. And of course I was thrilled to see WOMAN 99 on the list.

Great books like Kris Waldherr’s The Lost History of Dreams, which I’ve read and blurbed, are here, as well as some that are new to me and now I’m desperate to read. (Historical fiction except with Aphrodite? Sign me up!)

Check out the whole list on BookBub here.

(Also, if you’re not following me on BookBub, please do! I regularly share recommendations for my favorite reads, and it’s a great way to find new authors and books you’ll love.)