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(No More) Mr. Nice Guy

On the (rare, lately) occasions when my children take long enough naps for me to post on this blog, I try to keep it controversy- and negativity-free. Plenty of both in the world already, that's how I look at it. But today–today I'm going to step outside that. Because it happened again the other day.

I was in the library, browsing through the "romance" section, because I like a good guaranteed happily-ever-after kind of story now and again. And in flipping through the first pages of one...

Writer Unboxed redirect

I'm over at Writer Unboxed today. Stop on by!

And one of these days maybe my children will miraculously sleep long enough for me to post a blog post beyond my monthly announcement that I'm over at WU. It could happen. Really.

Calling All Bookclubs

Welcome to the Blarney Stone Book Club of Manlius, NY, who are the first to send a group photo!

If your bookclub wants to read Twilight of Avalon, take a look at my bookclub page where you can submit your own photo or arrange a telephone/Skype chat to discuss the book.

And in other news, it's SPRING! Warm weather and flowers everywhere! Bella picked me a bouquet of dandelions in the yard yesterday, then put them on the bookcase next to my side of the bed. She told me, "Now every time you go ...

Writer Unboxed

I'm over at Writer Unboxed today for my monthly post.

Also, have you watched the remake of The 39 Steps on PBS yet? If not, I highly, highly recommend it.

It stars Rupert Penry-Jones, who I developed a huge (don't tell my husband) crush on when he played Captain Wentworth in Persuasion. And it's just a wonderfully suspenseful, fun time.

Schatten über Avalon

Eek–ages since I last posted! I seem to have had even less free time than usual lately. Something about a certain two sweet girls I was lucky enough to bring into the world. . .

But I wanted to share the cover of the German edition of Twilight of Avalon. Isn't it gorgeous? I must have had a cover fairy present at my contract signing–I've had such great luck with the lovely artwork chosen.

Schatten über Avalon is available from weltbild.de. If you cannot view the Flash preview (it tries...

Exciting news

I'm over at Writer Unboxed today, blogging about some exciting news in regard to Dark Moon of Avalon. Stop by to hear the full story!

Snow!

In case you hadn't heard, we in DC have gotten, um, rather a lot of snow this week. More than 2 feet over the weekend, then another 10+ inches today. We lost all heat and power and were huddled in a 45 degree house for a couple of days. Though if that hadn't happened, I would have missed out on seeing my husband and father-in-law building a fire from cardboard moving boxes on our front lawn so that we could heat water, etc. I'll post pics when I get them from my in-laws.

And then, of...

Dark Moon of Avalon trailer

I'm over at Writer Unboxed today blogging about finding your characters' voices.

Also, if you go over to youtube you can see the new book trailer for Dark Moon of Avalon, book 2 of Trystan and Isolde's story. I should have mentioned it before that it's my lovely–and talented!–mother who makes these trailers for me. Doesn't she do a great job? Thanks, mom!

The leaning tower of research

I get asked quite often about the amount of research I do for my books. The short answer is "a lot." But that's also pretty boring, so just for fun I thought I'd post a more graphic illustration. Unfortunately since I finished book 3 of Trystan and Isolde before we moved, most of my research books for the trilogy are still packed in a box in our attic. But here's a picture of the research materials I've used so far on my (as yet super-secret) next project. They don't show up too well in ...

Dark Moon of Avalon cover copy

My editor and I have been going back and forth this week working on the back cover copy for Dark Moon of Avalon. This is such a hard part of the process, I think. How to sum up a whole book in just a paragraph or two? But between my editor, me, my father (thanks, Daddy!), and my husband (thanks, hon!) I think we've come up with copy we're all pretty happy with. So here it is:

She is a healer, a storyteller, a warrior. She has fought to preserve
Britain's throne. Now she faces her...