Mother Courage Costumes

A candid, entertaining memoir told through clothes.Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950’s and 60s, privy to her parents’ glamorous parties and famous friends—Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine Hepburn were her godparents. Tracy was named after Katherine Hepburn’s character, Tracy Lord, in the classic film, The Philadelphia Story. These stylish showbiz people were role models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age. Tracy�... [Read More]

I can’t believe this is happening. After my husband died, I never thought I’d be with another man. But fate has other plans, because the perfect man just fell into my lap. Or, more accurately, I fell into his lap. Because…he’s a Mall Santa.I know, I know. A Mall Santa. But Pax is amazing. He makes my son happy, he makes me laugh, and beneath that fat suit is the body of a sculpted sex god. It would be a true Christmas miracle if it weren’t for one thing: This Mall Santa is hiding somet... [Read More]

James Wilby (Gosford Park) and Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved, on Bertie & Elizabeth. Albert, Duke of York, called Bertie, married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 after a storybook courtship. Expecting a life of genteel obscurity, they were thrust into the limelight in 1936 when Bertie's older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the twice-divorced American socialite Wa... [Read More]

Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, sponsored by the Writers Union of Canada. Semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards.In this family saga set in Russia, love and loss are bound together by a country always at warDuring WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and... [Read More]

"The war does not end when the bombing stops," my mom told me. At that moment, I became convinced that I needed to write about my mom's journey to America. However, the years passed, and I simply procrastinated. Plus, the longer I waited to do it, the more fearful I became that I could not do her story justice. I was finally jolted into action when, without warning, my mom had life threatening accident, and my dad was diagnosed with a terminal illness a few months later. As a distraction to my m... [Read More]

Celebrate Disney's CINDERELLA, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination... and magic! Despite being bulled by her stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and stepsisters, a spirited Ella (Lily James) resolves to take charge of her fate. Add a royal ball, a Fairy Godmother (Helenal Bonham-Carter) and a glass slipper, and suddenly -- magic becomes reality!