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I am delighted to announce that Berkley have bought my new historical fiction: IN ROYAL SERVICE TO THE QUEEN. Based on the little-known true story of Marion Crawford, who spent sixteen years in service to the British royal family as the beloved governess of young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and whose troubled relationship with the Queen ultimately forces her to choose between her loyalty to the crown and her own happiness. Coming 2021!
Congratulations! I look forward to reading it
Oh, wow, that's fantastic! I read her book The Little Princesses (and its sequel) so many times growing up.
Congratulations! I cannot wait to read your book!
Fabulous news! Congratulations!
Congratulations! Sound very intriguing, to boot!
Wonderful! Congratulations! 😊
Fantastic! Congratulations, Tessa!
Huge congratulations, Tessa! Wonderful news xx
Congratulations. Look forward to your book
Congratulations on your success. I love Britain and its history. Can’t wait to see your book. 👏
How exciting for you!!! Congratulations....
Congratulations
Congratulations
Congratulations!
That’s fabulous! Congratulations!
That's wonderful! Congratulations, Tessa!
Congratulations!!! Sounds like something I will enjoy reading. How did you find out about this woman? Sounds fascinating.
Wow! So happy for you...we readers are waiting! BTW...Congratulations!
Looking forward to reading!
I say, that’s jolly brilliant 😁🥰 When may we preorder 👏🏻👏🏻
It should be good . Wasn’t Crawford the nanny who wrote a memoir and was cut off from the family?
I am looking forward to reading it. Elizabeth and Margaret were my heroes back in the 40s because they were so brave to stay in London and work on jeeps during WWII.
So look forward to this read.
Congrats!
Good for you! We all will be in the queue for your book as quickly as it is available!
“Absolutely smashing! Arlen pens a dynamite beginning to a new series, filled with wartime suspense, skillfully wrought emotions, and a liberal dash of romance. Readers will fall in love with clever and quirky Poppy Redfern and the colorful villagers of Little Buffenden, as well as their dashing new neighbors—the American Airmen.” – Anna Lee Huber, bestselling author of the Lady Darby Mysteries
Wow👍👏 what a fabulous review! Xxx
I can’t wait to read this. Congratulations on the great review!!!!!!
Since Anna Lee Huber is one of my all-time favorite authors, this is high praise. It is a definite read for me.
Congratulations
Cool cover...thanks
Looking forward to reading this!
Cannot wait.
Boom goes the dynamite 🤣 congratulations
Great photo, love it!
Beautiful shot.
You look amazing especially the wine eyes.😉
Beautiful
Lovely!!
Oh please admire my new website! It has just been given a thorough going over to include the new mystery series: Poppy Redfern: A Woman of World War II! www.tessaarlen.com/
Beautifully done! Looking forward to Poppy Redfern,
Fabulous website! Can’t wait to read all the books and you look stunning, my friend!! Xxx
Love it, and sharing. 👍
I have and love the website!
Love it.
Looks good!
Great site.
Looks good! I’m looking forward to reading Poppy’s first adventure
I just put this book on my list! Thank you for sharing!
Very nice. Can't wait for Poppy. Question: is Poppy an ongoing character, or will a different 'Woman of World War II' be featured in each successive book?
We are assembling Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders for release on November 5, 2019! Events are being organized, and I am delighted to say that I will be visiting Murder by the Book in Houston, TX and The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ in November. More details to follow!
You are living the good life ...enjoy
Baby gardens can be a bit of a challenge: first year sleep, second year creep and third year leap. BUT yesterday this gorgeous rose unfurled its first bloom in the hot sun, and I sat next to it all afternoon! Golden Celebration lives up to its name with an exquisite scent and such rich color
Love the color!!!
So beautiful!
It’s beautiful! The deer ate all my baby roses down to the ground. 😢
Gorgeous 💕
Lovely!
BEAUTIFUL 😍😍
The perfect rose
Wow! Gorgeous!
It's a stunner! Love the sleep, creep, and leap meme.
That is magnificent!
Stunning!
Beautiful!!!!
That’s absolutely gorgeous!!
David Austin roses are the best!
We have resumed our early (very early) morning walk with the dogs at Frijoles trail head. The views of the Jemez and Sangre de Cristos mountains are incredible, and the dogs get to chase rabbits (unsuccessfully) and feel macho.
Beautiful! And it sounds like everyone is happy!
What a trail and view
Lovely! Xxx
What a beautiful morning walk! 🙂
When I think of living in England again --this is the house that always springs to mind. A bit grandiose perhaps--but it doesn't hurt to dream big! Do you daydream of beautiful houses?
I think you would fit very nicely in this modest but beautiful house!! Xxx
i totally dream of a big beautiful house!!! so tired of tiny cramped places - i designed my dream house with plenty of space and room for company!!!
My friend grew up in a house just like that in Forest Hills Gardens, New York.
I just saw the movie "All Is True" today, and serious envy for Shakespeare's house.....
I daydream about tiny cottages with rose gardens in coastal villages where I can ride my bike. Nothing grandiose but definitely idyllic. But there is always a spare room for company.
Having grown up in a big old house (not at all elegant, just big), my first reaction is “oh no! So much to clean). You need a crew to clean a house like that and almost no one can find or afford staff. We kids were the cleaners in our house - dusting baseboards, sweeping 21 rooms, washing windows, etc.
Oh I love it, you are so right it doesn’t hurt to dream.
A big house with a big library. That’s my dream.
Oh, YES !!!
Yes!
Poppy Redfern my protagonist in POPPY REDFERN AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDERS is an Air Raid Precautions warden in England in WWII. So what was it like living in a world that was 'blacked out' every night when even the flare of a lit match or the glow of a cigarette could be spotted by the German Luftwaffe (air force) from above?
Walking home from work in winter would be a laborious business without street lights. The edges of sidewalks were painted with luminous paint so that motor vehicles with their blinkered headlights did not mount the curb and knock pedestrians down, but the number of road accidents increased exponentially during the war. With a shortage of policemen muggings and burglaries increased, and in large cities no woman went out at night on her own.Really looking forward to it!
The Republic of Ireland officially was neutral during the war. Thus, they didn't observe the blackout mandate. So, the Luftwaffe simply followed the lights up the island and bombed the crap out of the Belfast shipyards and other war-related areas. When ROI areas caught fire, for whatever reason, fire brigades in border counties in the North refused to respond.
If I had lived in those days...and maybe I did in another life....I would still be in the closet or under the bed...
Can't wait to read it.
Please tell me you're working on a new series.
I guess thats because Ireland had been under seige and enslaved by the Brits for seven hundred years and just didnt have the heart to care anymore. Erin Go Braugh.🍀🎻
I lived in Nova Scotia and rememer the blackouts and lived through explosions there, when I was a child. It never goes away. But we lived through it and made new lives. I still scream at night Im told but I cant bare to remember the dreams. And thats a good thing I suppose.
I remember the air raids well during the war pretty scary this was in new England.
I remember we had blackout curtains in Chicago during wwII.
My Dad was one in Queens NY
Sounds intriguing
Wow!!😊💞💕💕🎀🌺🌹💝🌈🌈🧚♂️🧚♀️💥💥🌻🌷
Happy father's day to my dear old dad. He was so much fun. . . and one of life's true gentleman. Here he is at 82 and about 30ish. Handsome old dude n'est ce pas?
Very handsome!
Very handsome! 🙂
Extremely
Indeed!
Eating breakfast on our terrace and overhead in the Siberian elm we spot a family of four Western Screech Owls, All sleeping peacefully in the shade. Tiny little things about 8 inches tall with gorgeous markings. Hope they stay! This is not my photo!
Love owls...beautiful
We drove up to beautiful Telluride,CO. for a few days. The drive alone was worth the trip from the high desert of Santa Fe to the high country and then on up into the San Juan mountains. The river runs through this delightful Victorian mining town (perfectly preserved!) and after this winter's snows is running at full spate. Wonderful restaurants, friendly service everywhere. We feel so relaxed!
It looks beautiful. Thanks for the recommendation -- this will have to go on my bucket list.
Beautiful
Beautiful view!
Did you hike up to Bridal Veil Falls?
Beautiful
As Britain celebrates D-Day -the beginning of the end of WW2-I am looking back at the start of that terrible time and Poppy Redfern's job as an ARP warden in her village of Little Buffenden when a new airfield on its perimeter made it a target for Luftwaffe bombs. Can you imagine the horror of an air raid?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHep5WA9qqU
I hate WAR...so sad to relive...not on my history lesson
My manuscript for volume two of the Poppy Redfern: A Woman of WW2 series is in to my editor at Berkley. And today I am wandering aimlessly around with all the usual conflicting feelings that involve sending a book of to my publisher. What do you usually do the morning after you send of your manuscript?
Read for pleasure!
If only...you are so blessed to be able to be writer...I am impressed in Lexington, KY
Cannot wait to read it.
Congrats!
Congrats. Has to feel good.
Good luck
Drink a lot of coffee in the morning and a glass of wine with dinner.
Pray
PS: Can’t wait to read it!
How exciting tat must b anticipation!
Breakfast with champagne?
Don't write
Well, I would be nervous about what the publisher would do with my manuscript. Others would celebrate. Humor book similar to Erma Bombeck, and a spy novel.
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When I send in a book to my editor I will let you know. lol. At 62 I play live war games online to keep my mind distracted :D
Get drunk and sleep it off till the answere comes in
Probably have a martini 🤣
Beautiful Scotney Castle is just a short walk from my sister's house. One of the most beautiful 'ruins' in south England!White wisteria tumbling over the sandstone walls at Scotney Castle makes for an elegant alternative to the classic purple flower.
Every time you pause to enjoy spring blooms, you help our gardeners care for over 200 gardens throughout the year.
Lovely!!
Beautiful Ruins
Bel posto
You look like Jenny Agutter the English actress
Tessa Arlen added a Shop Now button to their Page.
Love the cover!
Awesome cover. Inviting.
I was raised on stories of the Blitz in London. My father was given a thrashing because he and his cousin sat up on the roof of their house in Greenwich with their Spam sandwiches to watch a dogfight between Messerschmidts and Spitfires. Poppy Redfern and the Midnights Murders 11/5/2019!
www.amazon.com/Poppy-Redfern-Midnight-Murders-Mystery/dp/1984805800/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encodin...
This is such exciting news! I'm highly anticipating reading your new series! The cover is great! ❤️
I love the cover, Can I share the post?
My mother tells stories about being evacuated up to Blackpool she was 7 like most London children she soon came home , spent most of the war in Sevenoaks Kent which was a lot closer to family .Her time in Blackpool must have been really bad to this day she has never been back.
Why no link to purchase?
I'm so looking forward to this new series!
Beautiful cover!!! Can't wait to read it!!❤
Just love the cover.
Can hardly wait.
What a great cover!
You got me at roof
Wonderful cover
Absolutely love the cover art.
Love the cover!
This cover is amazing! I love it!
When is the next book arriving. Love the cover.
Brings a new meaning to me when I eat my spam sandwich ahahaa
My mother tells stories about being evacuated up to Blackpool she was 7 like most London children she soon came home , spent most of the war in Sevenoaks Kent which was a lot closer to family .Her time in Blackpool must have been really bad to this day she has never been back.
It is time for my semi-annual viewing of Out of Africa. Assembling a glass or two of wine and my Kleenex
I always cry when the lions come and lie on his grave....
Gorgeous cinematography.
I haven’t seen it in years. What a good idea, Tessa!
The book is better.
Love that movie.
Rose-lip't maidens, light-foot lads.
One of my faves!! Breaks my heart.
know it word for word!!❤️❤️
Oh me too. But more than a glass or two and a whole box.
Swoon! I absolutely love this movie! Such beautiful cinematography and costumes.
Congratulations to the Sussex family!
Duchess of Sussex gives birth to boy
A visibly proud Prince Harry says he and Meghan are "absolutely thrilled" after the arrival of the first child.Congratulations 🤙
It is time for my copy edit joke (since I have accomplished this very thing with Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders.
Cindy, this is so you
For some reason I can't imagine, we worked away for two hours making artichoke lasagna (with bechamel sauce--all from scratch) for lunch today. That and a bottle of wine means NO WORK this afternoon!
Nice day
Sounds good!
Enjoy 🥂
Your recipe source for this wonderful sounding dish? Tessa Arlen
Can't wait to share exciting book publishing news with you ...perhaps next week! 🤩🤩🤩
Such a tease.
Yeah!
Oh this ought to be exciting!
Looking forward to hearing!
The unquenchable Corgi appetite: as fast as I planted Iris bulbs, Griff was right behind me silently scoffing down fish and bone-meal.
Oh wow! My dog used to dig up onions in garden.
The English have a great hunger for desolate places . . .
Mad dogs . . .
Beautiful
