📦 UNBOXING MY OWN BOOKS! 📚

There’s something incredibly special about opening a box of books you’ve written yourself. Today, it’s fresh paperbacks of my historical mysteries: 🗝️ Hattie Vavaseur — 1920s Cornwall, a mysterious mansion, an eccentric medium, and a heroine who refuses to be intimidated. 🐍 Verity Easton —

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💀 A Gothic Girl’s Guide to Salem: The Ossuary 🖤

Salem has no shortage of unusual places to explore, but The Ossuary belongs on the itinerary of anyone who appreciates the darker, stranger, and more curious side of life. As a historical gothic fiction author, I’m forever collecting atmospheric places and little details that might someday find

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🥀A Cemetery Full of Unwritten Stories 🥀

There’s a particular beauty to wandering through an old cemetery. The weathered headstones, the delicate carvings, the names slowly disappearing into history. As a historical fiction author, I can’t help wondering about the lives behind each stone. Every person had a story, and every story ha

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📚BOOKISH PLACES WORTH VISITING: TATTERED COVER 🎭 

Imagine walking into a historic theatre and discovering that it’s now a bookstore! That’s part of the charm of Tattered Cover in Colorado. Why I loved this stop: 📖 A bookstore in a former theatre 🎭 Historic architectural character 🕯️ An atmosphere made for literary daydreaming 🏛️ A beauti

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A READER REVIEW THAT MADE MY AUTHOR HEART SO HAPPY! 🖤📚

What happens when a sophisticated, 63-year-old woman arrives at a mysterious mansion in Cornwall with absolutely no recollection of why she’s there? Well, naturally, things get rather complicated. 🏚️ A mansion full of secrets 🔮 An eccentric clairvoyant 🕯️ A delightfully stubborn heroine 🔍

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🦇 A Gothic Classic for Halloween

Today’s literary obsession: Dracula by Bram Stoker. Published in 1897, this Victorian gothic novel helped shape the vampire fiction we know today. Why it belongs on your gothic reading list: 🩸 An atmosphere absolutely dripping with dread 🕯️ Victorian settings and supernatural suspense

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Museum days are research days when you’re a historical fiction author. 📚✨

This visit was full of inspiration: intricately carved sculptures, ornate artifacts, a magnificent historical carriage, and beautiful examples of fashion through the centuries. But the highlight for me was seeing designs by Elsa Schiaparelli! Why does that matter to my books? In Evelina Fo

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📚 Little Free Library Adventures: Gothic Fiction Edition 🖤

Today’s mission: secretly deliver a gothic historical novel into the hands of its next reader. The book? Evelina Fontana, my #1 bestselling WWII mystery featuring espionage, an Italian asylum, forbidden romance, and supernatural secrets. There’s nothing quite like leaving a book behind and

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☕ A Coffeehouse Writing Date in Fort Pierce, Florida 📖

Location: Coffee House 1420 Today’s little author adventure involved finding a cozy spot, opening my manuscript, and spending 40 minutes—or perhaps several hours, who’s counting?—in another century. As a historical fiction and gothic mystery author, I love writing in places with a little atmo

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A crystal ball, a curious cat, and a mysterious key. 🔮🐈‍⬛🗝️ My new bookmarks have arrived, and each one has a little nod to the worlds of Hattie Vavaseur, Verity Easton, and Evelina Fontana. Because even a bookmark should have a touch of mystery. 🖤📚 Which one is your favorite? #MRebecc

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There is something particularly wonderful about hearing that a reader couldn’t put a book down. 🖤 Five stars for Evelina Fontana! Wartime espionage, an Italian asylum, supernatural intrigue, and twists that kept this reader on the edge of their seat. I’m delighted that Evelina’s harrowing adv

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The search history of a perfectly respectable historical m*rder mystery author. 🐅🕷️📚 Between ancient Cambodian mysteries, tiger breath, and the biting capabilities of baby tarantulas, I can assure you that the next novel is progressing splendidly. My search engine, however, may have some conc

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If Alexandre Dumas taught us anything, it’s that French history rarely needed assistance becoming a spectacular novel. And Versailles? She provided the scenery. Golden gates, magnificent halls, mythological ceilings, and centuries of royal intrigue. It’s the sort of place where you’d expect t

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A little something for your October reading list: WWII Italy. An asylum leaking Allied secrets. An Allied spy posing as a nurse. M*rder. Forbidden experiments. Something decidedly supernatural. And because Evelina occasionally interprets “undercover” rather broadly…a little 🌶️, too. 😈

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There are writers who write because they have something to say, and writers who write because the characters simply refuse to leave them in peace. P.G. Wodehouse understood the latter beautifully. And really, what a delightful predicament it is to have an imagination that never quite knows wh

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A rather extraordinary day in the literary household. 🖤🥂 Unboxing the hardcover edition of Evelina Fontana while celebrating her becoming a #1 Kindle bestseller TODAY! A gothic historical mystery of espionage, supernatural secrets, m*rder, and forbidden romance in WWII Italy. And becaus

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Not every ending will please every reader, and that’s part of the beauty of storytelling. 🖤 But knowing someone enjoyed the journey enough to want to read another of my books? That’s a five-star compliment in itself. 📖✨ #BookTok #ReaderReviews #HistoricalMystery #AuthorLife #mreb

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The Allies have a leak – and it’s coming from inside an Italian asylum. British nurse Evelina Fontana is sent undercover to find the person revealing covert Allied actions. Her assignment should be straightforward: Take a position as a nurse, identify the traitor, and keep her cover intact. N

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A little retail witchcraft at Coven in Salem. 🕯️🔮 As a writer of supernatural mysteries, I consider browsing establishments like this essential character research. Whether my characters actually require any of these delightful curiosities is entirely beside the point. #CovenSalem #SalemMa

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My idea of a lovely afternoon involves weathered headstones, forgotten histories, and an entirely unreasonable number of questions about people who have been gone for a century. Cemeteries are extraordinary archives of human lives. And for a historical fiction author with a fondness for the maca

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Author M. Rebecca Wildsmith