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A review from the best librarian in Texas

2025-08-14T14:38:00+00:00

Breezy reads for late summer

The third in the series about Georgia O’Keeffe as an amateur sleuth, A Slant of Light (Kathryn Lasky, Severn House, 2025, 192 pages, $29.99) is more harsh than the previous books. When a beloved priest is murdered, the search for a reason as well as the culprit leads to a nearby “school” for Native American children. All that we now know of such institutions is clearly and horrifyingly delineated. Interwoven in the tale is the development of Opus Dei, Father Coughlin, Nazis and spies. Georgia’s personal life takes on a new aspect with her taking in a child! The story moves at a fast pace, and the characters are well developed.

Legend of the Guardians will be streaming in May

2025-04-24T18:22:00+00:00

You can watch it on MAX

It is one of the most beautiful animated films ever made!

A video trailer for A Slant of Light

2025-01-28T16:03:00+00:00

A video trailer for GLASS

2024-08-23T17:10:00+00:00

"Kathryn Lasky embellishes and burnishes the time-honored tropes of the Cinderella tale with her customary clarity of storytelling and novelty of invention. GLASS sparkles."

Gregory McGuire, author of Wicked

Glass is published August 20

2024-08-03T15:28:00+00:00

Sometimes stories come from the weirdest places.

For years I have always wondered about the Fairy Godmother in the Cinderella story. Where did she come from? What was she like as a kid? Well, here is one answer the the story of Glass. I turned the traditional tale inside out.Bess Wickham is the daughter of famous glassmakers. But behind the stunning beauty of the glass are the sinister shadows. Yes dark magic and unspeakable evil.

Coming out August 20.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!

I did an interview as if I was Georgia O’Keeffe

2024-07-03T14:32:00+00:00

You can read it here

Georgia sits down for a question-and-answer session with dru’s book musings so that we can learn more about what makes her tick. Let’s see what she has to say.

First Interview with me about Mortal Radiance

2024-06-29T14:41:00+00:00

You can watch it since it was recorded

Video teaser for Mortal Radiance

2024-06-03T16:53:00+00:00

Take a look, the book is coming July 2

I just got the first copy of Mortal Radiance

2024-05-18T16:01:00+00:00

It will be in bookstores July 2

My new Georgia O’Keeffe mystery is coming July 2

2024-03-06T17:40:00+00:00

You can preorder it now!

I'm so excited. This book finds Georgia in Taos at the home of Mabel Dodge Luhan with a cast of eccentrics that range from Wallis Simpson, soon to be the Duchess of Windsor, to Ansel Adams and a shocking murder on her hands of a beautiful Navajo potter.Why do I love writing these books? It’s pretty simple really. I love Georgia O’Keeffe. I love the 1930’s and I love New Mexico.

Perhaps the era was truly the prime motivator. My mother was a product of the 1930’s . She worked during the depression for an orphanage in Indiana. She drove around in, yes A Model A , like Georgia did in the desert searching for landscape, but my mother was picking up abandoned children. She was living through dangerous times. A time when women dared to do the unexpected.

Georgia was one of those women.