Want to know more about the Paper Lantern Writers‘s new publication? Thought so!

It’s Holiday Season! Finally! Let the holiday baking (and deep-frying at my house) begin!

The Paper Lantern Writers–a collective of historical fiction writers–is excited to share HISTORICAL HOLIDAY DESSERT RECIPES, a collection of recipes that our characters might have eaten in the past, as well as recipes that we are baking now.

Download HISTORICAL HOLIDAY DESSERT RECIPES at PaperLanternWriters/store today! The .pdf is free, but you will need to enter your name/address.

Author Linda Ulleseit is hosting a HUGE Flash Historical Fiction Giveaway TODAY ONLY (that’s Weds November 18) & I’m offering a paperback copy of FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER.

Sign up on Linda’s FB page here: https://bit.ly/32XHq2N.

Or get the scoop on my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/AnaBrazilAuthor/

Ends at 10pm PST tonight.

To celebrate FANNY NEWCOMB’s new cover, my publisher has lowered the price of FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER on Kindle to 99 cents for the next fortnight (aka “two weeks”).

“FANNY NEWCOMB & THE IRISH CHANNEL RIPPER is a ripping good read. Author Ana Brazil brings the dark underbelly of Gilded Age New Orleans vividly to life as her trio of determined female sleuths seek out a Jack the Ripper copycat killer.”
—Ann Parker, author of the award-winning Silver Rush series

Independent Book Publishers Association 2018 GOLD for Historical Fiction

Hope you enjoy FANNY NEWCOMB!

The very kind and wonderful storyteller Suzanne Adair has invited me to share how to “hold history in your hands” in this week’s Relevant History blog.

And…here’s Suzanne’s scoop on the FANNY NEWCOMB giveaway:

“A big thanks to Ana Brazil! She’ll give away a packet of four reproduction postcards and one original postcard of Italian Headquarters, plus a paperback copy of Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper, to someone who contributes a comment on my blog this week (available Tuesday 4 February). I’ll choose the winner from among those who comment by Friday at 6 p.m. ET. Delivery is available in the US only.”

For a little preview, here are a few of my postcards that are not in the Relevant History publication:

and here’s a larger view of the postcard that Kerry wants to know more about.

This postcard was printed after 1908, which is the date that the Southern Railroad Depot (the large monumental building with a rounded arch entrance on Canal and Basin Streets) was completed.

Despite the sad, sad, look of this 1920’s newsletter writer, my November newsletter has only happy, happy news.

You can sign up for my November newsletter on this very page.

If you’re interested in getting news of what’s happening in historic New Orleans, what books are looking good to me, where I’ve been (& why), and my latest publications (hint: in September it’s “Miss Evelyn Nesbit Presents”), then sign up on my website!

Sign up is Right. Over. There.

My June newsletter is coming out next Tuesday. If you would like to receive it in your very own email box, just sign up on my website.

My newsletter contains info about what I’ve written & what I’m writing and where I’m going to be & what I’m doing as Ana Brazil Author.

AND it usually includes some fun facts about Fanny Newcomb’s 1889 New Orleans, celebrations of some of America’s historic heroines, and some reading suggestions.

You can read Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel THE AWAKENING for free. At many places. Including your public library, of course.

Just to make it easy for you, here’s where you can find THE AWAKENING on Project Gutenberg.

ENJOY!

I’m a guest blogger on Suzanne Adair’s Relevant History blog this week. Enjoy my Sanborn Fire Insurance Map post and enter my contest to win a 13 oz. can of New Orleans’ Cafe du Monde’s French Roast Coffee and a Kindle ebook copy of Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper.

To enter, just comment at the end of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map post. The winner will be chosen Friday (that’s August 3!) at 6 p.m. ET. Delivery is available in the U.S. only.