Stephanie's July Blog
Well I’m back from my lovely escape to Vanuatu in the South Pacific and it’s horribly dreary here in Melbourne – this weekend we received minus degree temperatures and woke to severe frost – so much that it looked like snow! I’m listening to the howling wind as I write this, with pets huddled at my feet - my poor plants are battling the elements out there. Really I should be saying the weather is perfect for reading a good book by the fire or delving deep into my current writing!
I’m hoping you’ve had the chance to catch up with the latest Cynster family member to have fallen victim to love and marriage, namely Marcus Cynster. A Match for Marcus Cynster is the latest novel in the series, and will be the last until 2017. If you still haven’t read his story, click HERE for details.
And a reminder, I mentioned in my last letter we do have an interview on writing this novel that you may like to peruse. This was only released last month as it had so many spoilers we had to hold it back. Click HERE to read.
For those of you who have been waiting for the mass-market paperback edition of BY WINTER’S LIGHT, last month we released the cover and stepback on our website. Personally, I think the art department has done a lovely job at capturing the main characters, Daniel and Claire. Of course, inside, this is the same book as the already released hardcover and e-book - the only difference is that the paperback includes an excerpt from the upcoming new book, The Lady's Command. Click HERE to find links for pre-ordering the mass market paperback of BY WINTER’S LIGHT.
Speaking of The Lady's Command…while the Cynster family has been ticking along nicely for the last couple of months, my writing schedule has been heavily focused on my next series, THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET. Last month we were able to reveal some information on what you can expect from these four stories, with the first novel, THE LADY’S COMMAND, due to be released on December 29, 2015. For more information on THE LADY’S COMMAND, plus pre-order links as available, click HERE.
You’ll be excited to know that THE LADY’S COMMAND is all but finished and in the final stages of the publishing process. The second installment, A BUCCANEER AT HEART, is being edited as we speak, and I’ve already started writing the third installment, DAREDEVIL SNARED - which, of all four books, is looming as the biggest challenge! As the months roll by you’ll find more information, cover reveals and giveaways coming your way.
So…What’s up next?
September 29, 2015 - mass market paperback edition of BY WINTER’S LIGHT.
December 29, 2015 - The first installment of THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET, THE LADY’S COMMAND. Meet Captain Declan Frobisher and Lady Edwina nee Delbraith and follow them on their journey of discovery into love, marriage, and a secret mission to uncover a dastardly plot.
And then?
2016 will bring you the second, third and final installment of THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET.
2017 will also bring more Cynster novels, and after reading By Winter's Light, The Tempting of Thomas Carrick, and A Match for Marcus Cynster, you’ll be able to guess which three Cynsters will get their romances next. Yes, those three - 2017 will be a very big year!
2018 will bring the next three Casebook of Barnaby Adair novels. I’m not completely certain which characters will feature, but you will have met those who have their romance in each book before.
And there’s many more stories on my TBW (to be written) List to follow after that. In short, there are lots more books coming your way.
If you want to keep abreast of details of what’s in the pipeline as well as being notified of my latest releases, joining my Email Newsletter List is the safest bet. It also carries links to exclusive sweepstakes and sneak peek excerpts. If you haven't yet joined, the ribbon link is to the left. Click to join - it's easy!
Stephanie.
I’m hoping you’ve had the chance to catch up with the latest Cynster family member to have fallen victim to love and marriage, namely Marcus Cynster. A Match for Marcus Cynster is the latest novel in the series, and will be the last until 2017. If you still haven’t read his story, click HERE for details.
And a reminder, I mentioned in my last letter we do have an interview on writing this novel that you may like to peruse. This was only released last month as it had so many spoilers we had to hold it back. Click HERE to read.For those of you who have been waiting for the mass-market paperback edition of BY WINTER’S LIGHT, last month we released the cover and stepback on our website. Personally, I think the art department has done a lovely job at capturing the main characters, Daniel and Claire. Of course, inside, this is the same book as the already released hardcover and e-book - the only difference is that the paperback includes an excerpt from the upcoming new book, The Lady's Command. Click HERE to find links for pre-ordering the mass market paperback of BY WINTER’S LIGHT.
Speaking of The Lady's Command…while the Cynster family has been ticking along nicely for the last couple of months, my writing schedule has been heavily focused on my next series, THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET. Last month we were able to reveal some information on what you can expect from these four stories, with the first novel, THE LADY’S COMMAND, due to be released on December 29, 2015. For more information on THE LADY’S COMMAND, plus pre-order links as available, click HERE.You’ll be excited to know that THE LADY’S COMMAND is all but finished and in the final stages of the publishing process. The second installment, A BUCCANEER AT HEART, is being edited as we speak, and I’ve already started writing the third installment, DAREDEVIL SNARED - which, of all four books, is looming as the biggest challenge! As the months roll by you’ll find more information, cover reveals and giveaways coming your way.
So…What’s up next?
September 29, 2015 - mass market paperback edition of BY WINTER’S LIGHT.
December 29, 2015 - The first installment of THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET, THE LADY’S COMMAND. Meet Captain Declan Frobisher and Lady Edwina nee Delbraith and follow them on their journey of discovery into love, marriage, and a secret mission to uncover a dastardly plot.
And then?
2016 will bring you the second, third and final installment of THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET.
2017 will also bring more Cynster novels, and after reading By Winter's Light, The Tempting of Thomas Carrick, and A Match for Marcus Cynster, you’ll be able to guess which three Cynsters will get their romances next. Yes, those three - 2017 will be a very big year!
2018 will bring the next three Casebook of Barnaby Adair novels. I’m not completely certain which characters will feature, but you will have met those who have their romance in each book before.
And there’s many more stories on my TBW (to be written) List to follow after that. In short, there are lots more books coming your way.
If you want to keep abreast of details of what’s in the pipeline as well as being notified of my latest releases, joining my Email Newsletter List is the safest bet. It also carries links to exclusive sweepstakes and sneak peek excerpts. If you haven't yet joined, the ribbon link is to the left. Click to join - it's easy!
Stephanie.
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Jul 05, 2015 06:28PM
Can't wait to read your new releases! TY kindly:)
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As always, I do enjoy all your writing!! Thank you so very much for the hours of reading enjoyment!
I just received Marcus's story and can't wait to begin.As for your weather, I'm on my way! If I had read this post one week ago, I wouldn't think too much of cold temperatures. Today we are in a Heat Advisory. We had fog this morning because the temp was 74 deg with humidity of 97%. Now our heat index is 100 deg, better than yesterday. Hard to get cool, even with AC.
So cuddle up. Sending you warm feelings.
A Match For Marcus Cynster - deep pain and terrible disappointment!Stephanie Laurens was my favorite writer for many years, I lived in a world of her magnificent books.
But her latest books: The Masterful Mr Montague, The Tempting of Thomas Carrick, A Match for Marcus Cynster - just terrible, there is not an adequate plot, there is not full disclosure of images of heroes, there is no connection with the previous books in the series. I loved her books because she described the protagonists in the bosom of the family, their interaction, support each other, with a minimum number of characters
But the main characters Cynster Novels - Next Generation, is blunt limited young people, women: ugly uninteresting village spinsters who want sex and family, weak-willed men almost spineless slugs, which forcibly dragged to bed, where they are deprived of the heroines of virginity before they are forced to marry them. These books all the trite, predictable, boring, at least vtorostenennyh heroes. These books all the trite, predictable, boring, with a minimum of action hero.
-No advice and support from the parents of twins,
-No help numerous cousins family Cynsters,
-No even closer relationship the twins each with other and with the brothers and sister,
-No continuation of the story line about a magical necklace local goddess,
-No interaction with neighbors,
-No mention of male and female friends of the main characters,
-No big happy family Cynster !!!
I read this novel almost 5 days, although usually love stories, especially Stephanie Laurens swallow per day. Continuation of the novel The Tempting of Thomas Carrick and also boring, stupid, uninteresting. In my opinion it would be better not undertake the author of the Victorian era, it can not open it, give it to the historical character that it turned out well with the age of Regency.
Novels about the family Cynster were my most beloved and beautiful epilogue of this family a Regency-era was "By Winter's Light".
A novel The Tempting of Thomas Carrick and A Match For Marcus Cynster - deeply disappointed me, very sorry that all read this dregs!
More books by this author will not buy better read again her early work about a wonderful family Cynster and their friends Regency era.
Dear Julia, if you really believe that repetitiveness in every book based on an author's 1st several works is the same as quality, then think again! What Ms Laurens is trying her best to do here is to make sure that the stories are ORIGINAL instead of just repeating the first 6 books in the series, because what makes a great story is ORIGINALITY, NOT something that reads like the author just copied and pasted from her earlier works!! A book is a work of art, not one of entertainment! The same theory applies to music and movies, too!!Besides, it's laughably UNREALISTIC to expect every generation to be carbon copies of the previous generation! They're their own people, NOT their parents! I for one am hoping that the new generation will branch out not only in terms of their careers, but also in terms of the people they mix with by marrying someone:
- outside of the British aristocracy and gentry e.g. a physician as in Jennifer McQuiston's 'Diary of an Accidental Wallflower';
- who does NOT only have French or British blood e.g. a half-Indian duke as in Mary Jo Putney's 'Loving a Lost Lord';
- lives outside of the British Isles e.g. America as in Victoria Alexander's Effington series (why hasn't Ms Laurens gotten around to creating an American character yet??).
That's what the new generation should be all about - new people and new settings, NOT the same old, same old that you're suggesting!!!
Dear Doris, on Goodreads has a wonderful review (Tori-Smexybooks) smexys_sidekick the book The Tempting of Thomas Carrick, with which I fully agree. The main problem of recent books Stephanie Laurens is a lack of feeling between the characters, their spinelessness, the limitations of their inner world. Family members Cynster present only at the wedding, within the family there is no interaction.I would be very glad if the author used in his novels, young people: from different social strata, such as the youngest son of Lucifer and daughter Daniel Crosbie; from different countries, for example, one of the children Cynster and the child Duc de Perigord in France; from different economic classes, for example girl aristocrat Cynster and a young man from America, grandson Fabien de Mordaunt or relative sisters Twinning, the rich owner of a successful plant or factory.
But between them should be feeling, I need to see why they loved each other, I wonder who surround them as they interact with them. I should be interested to read the book, I have to capture the emotions that the characters are experiencing. I should like the main characters, because they are strong, beautiful, proud, purposeful, and the like. Then I read these books and get pleasure from them, which I think to a large yet not been able to get from the last book of one of the best writers of romance novels, Ms. Stephanie Laurens.
I received my Cynster family tree yesterday! Lovely!
Arlene wrote: "I received my Cynster family tree yesterday! Lovely!"That's great to hear Arlene, I'm really happy you (finally!) received it!
