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A Healing in Wales

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Today is my parents’ 51st wedding anniversary.  In their honor, I’d like to tell you about a curious experience we shared in Wales when I was twenty-eight.  Six months before, I developed pleural bruising of the chest wall, which turned breathing into an exercise in torture.  Even after I recovered, I wasn’t up to par.  Trifling colds became bronchitis overnight.

During the flight overseas, I caught another cold.  Two days later, my voice dropped nearly an octave, and my chest burned with t...

Worldwide Release

Today’s the day!  It’s the release of Soul of the Wolf, the second of The Novels of Ravenwood.  Hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it!https://amzn.com/B06WP4GSCR

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Cover Reveal

[image error]Here’s the cover for The Cauldron Stirred, the first book of my young adult series, Guardians of Erin.  No release date yet, but I’ll keep you posted.  Many thanks to the artist, RJ Morris.  I love it!  What do you think?

Of Luck and Lore

[image error]Last time, I brought you along for the ghost hunt on my first trip to Ireland.   There are more stories where that came from!  My Irish cousins shared a wealth of information about my great-grandfather, Michael Patrick—who emigrated from Ireland in 1914—and his siblings.  Through fortune and loss, the family became fast friends with Irish luck.  One example concerned Michael’s brother, who missed his boat to America (the Titanic) but arrived unscathed on the Lusitania.

Luck was one thing.  Wh...

An Irish Ghost Hunt

[image error]With St. Patrick’s Day on the way, I thought I’d share one of my favorite memories from the first time I visited Ireland.  I was eighteen at the time.  It was my first trip overseas with my parents and the perfect opportunity to meet our Irish cousins, who welcomed us with open arms.  The parents were a little older than mine; their five children, about my age.  They lived near Kilkenny, and while their current home was modern, their old residence still stood on the property.  When I say old,...

Ice, ice, baby!

[image error]In the summer of 1993, after living in Sweden for six months, I flew back to the States.  My flight had a three-hour layover in Iceland’s Keflavík International Airport, just outside of Reykjavík.  I remained in the airport for the duration, but I couldn’t shake the curious murmur of destiny that tickled my ears.

This place is important.  Not Keflavík or Reykjavík, but farther out.  One day, you must return.

Six years later in Virginia, after I moved in with my husband (then fiancé) Dan, I ha...

And the winner is…

[image error]A big thanks to everyone who stopped by my blog for the ABA “A Time for Love” Valentine Blog Hop.  I did the drawing for the free digital copy of Flight of the Raven, and the winner is kitsyclare.  Congratulations!  Please email me at judithsterlingmarshall@gmail.com and give me your contact info, so I can send your prize on its way.  Thanks again!

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day!

In [image error]keeping with the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Soul of the Wolf (The Novels of Ravenwood, Book Two) is now available for pre-order on Amazon.  The worldwide release date is April 12, 2017.

A Norman lady shows a Saxon sorcerer there’s no greater magic than love.

Pre-order now!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, EVERYONE!

 

Souls Forever Bound ~ ABA’s A Time for Love Valentine Hop

Thanks so much for visiting this stop on the Valentine Blog Hop!  We’re talking about love, and I’ll be delving into my family history.  Comment below, and you could win a free e-copy of my medieval romance, Flight of the Raven, the first of The Novels of Ravenwood.  So without further ado…

This October, my husband and I will celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary.  Last April, my parents celebrated their 50th.  But as Valentine’s Day approaches, I want to focus on the marriage of my materna...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Hi, everyone!  Here’s the scoop on Soul of the Wolf, the second of The Novels of Ravenwood:

A Norman loyalist, Lady Jocelyn bristles when ordered to marry Wulfstan, a Saxon sorcerer. She nurses a painful secret and would rather bathe in a cesspit than be pawed by such a man…until her lifelong dream of motherhood rears its head.

A man of magic and mystery, Wulfstan has no time for wedded bliss. He fears that consummating their marriage will bind their souls and wrench his focus from the ancien...