Posts by Evie Hawtrey
Announcing the FRIENDS OF FIRE Reader Promotion
Sometimes early birds don’t get worms . . . they get FABULOUS, fiery, BOOK SWAG 😉 Today I am launching my 🔥🔥🔥 Friends of Fire Reader Incentive 🔥🔥🔥 a swag extravaganza designed to celebrate reader enthusiasm for And by Fire. The Friends of Fire Incentive will reward up to fifty [yes, 50] readers who pre-order…
Read MoreNo Tea No Shade . . . King Charles II’s Queen Did NOT Introduce Tea to England, But She Made It Fashionable
So, here’s the skinny: Catherine of Braganza (wife of England’s King Charles II) loved tea, but she cannot be credited for introducing tea to the British. Catherine did, however, almost single-handedly turn tea into widely consumed and very fashionable beverage. Where did Catherine’s penchant for tea come from? Portugal. After all she was a Portuguese…
Read MorePoint of Ignition: Where the Great Fire of London REALLY Started
For precisely 350 years, everyone in England believed that Pudding Lane was THE London hotspot—the place, on the property of Thomas Farriner’s bakery, that the Great Fire of London sparked. Then a historian and House of Commons Clerk said nope, not so. Yes, the Great Fire began—as generations of British school children had learned—on the…
Read MoreAnd By Fire Book Trailer Reveal
Thrilled to share the book trailer for my upcoming novel, And by Fire! I have goosebumps! How about you? And by Fire releases in less than 2 months (May 10, 2022), but you can pre-order your copy now wherever books are sold—including SIGNED copies from my exclusive source, Bards Alley (a women owned Indie bookstore).…
Read MoreA Flat with a View: Ni’s place in Bankside
In And by Fire DI Nigella Parker enjoys a posh lifestyle. Not, to be clear, on her salary from the City Police of London (I am writing fiction, not fantasy), but because she comes from a wealthy, Oxbridge educated family. Central to her daily life is a flat in Bankside purchased with money inherited from…
Read MorePre-Order a SIGNED Copy of AND BY FIRE
✍️I like my books like I like my checks—SIGNED.✍️ Seriously, there is something extra special about a signed copy of a book, and my signed copies have pride of place in my personal library. If, like me, you get a thrill when you flip open the copy of a novel and see the author’s signature…
Read MoreAuthor Leanne Kale Talks About The Process of Creating Her Novel, The Wrong Woman
Crime & Mystery Lovers rejoice, it’s author interview time!!! My Crooked Lane Books sister, Leanne Kale Sparks’ novel, The Wrong Woman, released earlier this month. And today she’s sitting down—in the blog post sense—to share some behind the scenes details on her creative process. But first, let’s start things off with a book description: In…
Read MoreWorst Beauty Product EVER
History is fascinating, frustrating, and occasionally downright gross.1 In And By Fire—while my modern-day police detectives are chasing a murderous arsonist creating sculptures from burnt flesh—a pair of 17th century amateur detectives search for a friend gone missing during London’s Great Fire. During that hunt, Margaret Dove (a lady-in-waiting to the queen) and Etienne Belland…
Read MoreKirkus Reviews AND BY FIRE, and a DISCOUNT on Pre-Orders!!!
I’ve always had MAD RESPECT for folks who Bookstagram—you know the ones, with the gorgeous, staged pictures of books with props. It’s an art-form truly. And I assumed it took a heck of a lot of work. SO GUESS WHAT I DECIDED TO DO FOR FUN LAST WEEKEND? That’s right–take some glamour shots of my…
Read MoreWood is NOT Flammable—Yeah, you read that right.
All right, I’ll admit . . . this is a matter of semantics. But when you write, words are important. And when you write Crime Fiction making sure you understand the terminology of the science involved is super important. So, what DOES wood do when it sits in our fireplace flaming or when a house…
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