Uncategorized – Tara Cowan

Hello Beautiful Review

I got outside my comfort zone recently with reading a beautiful book by Ann Napolitano called Hello Beautiful. I walked into my local massage therapist/spa and saw it sitting on the coffee table with some other books. The owner explained that she was in a book club that read it and that the books on the table were free to be borrowed.

Interview!

I was grateful to be interviewed recently by Jonathan Frank, the News and Publications Director at Tennessee Tech University, my alma mater. I thought readers might enjoy it, so I am going to link it here.

https://www.tntech.edu/news/releases/22-23/tech-alumna-finds-success-as-fiction-writer.php

Cover Reveal!

I’m so excited to share the cover of my new book, Secrets of an Old Virginia House. I will be revealing the release date soon. Until then, here is the cover:

Madeleine Apkarian has been cancelled. On the heels of a raucous public spectacle, she is terminated from professorship at a top tier university. Maddie flees Boston, determined to save her career. Traveling to Hayden’s Ridge, she hopes to gain access to one of America’s most private colonial homes and its unseen archives, much to the chagrin of the current owner, Samuel Hayden.

He agrees to let her catalogue historic documents—nothing more. But when they stumble across a long-forgotten portrait of an eighteenth-century lady who may have had ties to Thomas Jefferson, he finally shares more. As secrets of the Hayden family’s past are revealed, the enigma of Samuel’s ancestry grows. Their historical journey takes them to old letters, to the Virginia of the distant past—to Monticello—and just when Maddie thinks she has escaped the present into history, she finds the two worlds are deeply entwined. Resolved to unravel the secrets of the house, both Maddie and Samuel may get more than they ever expected—from the past and the present.

New Book

Secrets of an Old Virginia House is just around the corner, so I thought we would talk a little about the book and who will like it.

Giveaway!

We’re running a giveaway for my new book over on Instagram! Hop over to my account @tara.cowan.author for the details! (By the way, we’re less than one month from from the release of Thank God for Mississippi!!!)

Southern Rain – FREE

Happy Cyber Monday! The Kindle Edition of Book 1 is free today from Amazon. Download it while it lasts!

Northern Fire – Free!

Hi friends! I hope you have all found rest and peace over the holidays. For a limited time only, you can download the Kindle edition of Northern Fire free. Here is the link. Enjoy!

Of Ryan Reynolds and House Museums…

I recently read Ryan Reynolds’s statement about his deep remorse for holding his wedding at Boone Hall Plantation in South Carolina. The actor related that he saw a pretty venue on Pinterest but that, in reality, it was a place with a tragic past. He felt that he had really made a huge misstep that perpetuated division. I’ve read a few articles on the subject that seem to agree with him: that getting married on a plantation is a horrible thing to do. One author called it “promot[ing] a whitewashing of history atop crimes against humanity.”[1] The commentary on the subject shows that this is a really hot-button issue.