![]() ![]() So much of the raw material for ROSE HOUSE comes from those years the old houses and the lush summers and the bare, gray winters. ![]() So we picked up a guide book-I think it was ROAD TRIP USA-and come the weekend we would just choose a destination and go exploring. My husband and I were living in a small town in central New York at the time, recent transplants from the West Coast, and we had no idea what to do for fun (you can only browse Target recreationally so many times). I was fortunate enough to visit the two houses that provided inspiration for the mansion in the book, Edith Wharton’s The Mount and the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, years before I even thought of THE WIDOW OF ROSE HOUSE. Have you always had a fascination with haunted houses and did you get to travel to any for research?ĭiana: I would say I have always been fascinated by homes, and what they mean to people. ![]() ![]() So many good things rolled into one book! But the primary focus is the Hyde Park mansion, the haunted house. Your novel is part ghost story, part romance, set in the Gilded Age. Lexi: Welcome to the blog, Diana! We have our comfy, lap blankets here so we can get right into the chills that THE WIDOW OF ROSE HOUSE gives. Settle in with some mulled wine because we’re incredibly excited to introduce, Diana Biller! The chill of fall is in the air and our tastes for light, easy summer reads has turned to those that can send goosebumps up our arms. ![]()
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