A good story, likable characters, interesting complications, and charming, intelligent dialogue get me every time… and it all starts with that first meting. … More Meet Cutes, Meet Emilie Loring
Summer people have gone. As trees change their colors, the lake is quiet, the last of the apples have fallen, and pine needles coat the ground. Fall’s chill makes me want to bake: Cornish pasties, cinnamon rolls, a bubbling pan of enchiladas. To help you match books to the season, I’ve compiled a calendar of … More Emilie Loring’s Novels, Month by Month
No surprise, we are an eclectic group of readers who have found our way to Emilie Loring! Here are our survey results: How old were you when you read your first Emilie Loring book? Sixty percent of us had read an Emilie Loring book before our twentieth birthday. AND at every decade, Emilie Loring has … More How We Got Here: Our Survey Results
“We haven’t any money to spend, but we have love and time and an opulent imagination…” … More “Her Christmas Ships” by Emilie Loring
Habits die hard, especially when they are reinforced, as my research habit was recently. I had a few minutes to myself and thought, “I wonder if there are any newly digitized pages in the Maine newspaper database.” (You know, like everyone thinks sometimes.) And there were! The danger of finding new information, of course, is … More But Wait! There’s Still More!
Happy Landings Goes to the Printer Welcome back from Thanksgiving week! I am happy to report that Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing, and Wisdom has gone to the printer. It’s going to be a pretty book: sky-blue jacket wrapped around a flag-blue hardcover with silver lettering. I can’t wait to hold it in my … More ‘Tis the Season: Happy Landings and a New Quiz
Things have a marvelous, unbelievable way of working out. The Trail of Conflict Emilie is right again. I get to bring my mother to my home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and her 96th birthday in January. It means a bit of travel and some setting up, which would have made this and next weekend’s posts harder … More Loring Heroes and Heroines: Test Your Knowledge
The Emilie Loring Collection 