Happy New Year! As promised, it’s time for this blog’s first (and perhaps only) cat-naming contest! Here’s the background: one of my heroines in my novel in progress, Nora, is known to have had a cat. We don’t know anything else about the cat, including its name. So I thought for a little fun, I […]
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It’s been a while since I mentioned any news about my books, so I wanted to give you an update on what’s going on (and, alas, what’s not going on) with me. First, the good news: my first nonfiction book, The Woodvilles, will be published in October in the UK and in January in the
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As you might have noticed, there is a blog meme going about called “The Next Big Thing,” where authors answer questions about their works in progress and tag other authors to do the same. I was tagged by the wonderful Brian Wainwright, whose novels Within the Fetterlock and The Adventures of Alianore Audley I thoroughly
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Nothing of substance to say, except that you can get the electronic version of Her Highness, the Traitor cheap today! It’s $2.99 in the United States and £1.99 in the UK. Amazon US Amazon UK Barnes and Noble Happy reading!
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A week from today, Her Highness, the Traitor, my novel about Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, and Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland, will go on sale here in the United States (June 29 in the UK), and I’m excited! Beginning on June 1, the publication date, I’ll be going on a blog tour. You can find
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I know I haven’t replied to the recent comments on my blog, and I apologize! I read everyone’s comments and appreciate them immensely, but I’ve been busy these past few weeks with deadlines of various sorts. I’ll try to be better about replying. I did want to mention that I’ve put copies of Her Highness,
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My forthcoming novel, Her Highness, the Traitor, is to be published on June 1, 2012. The novel is told by Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland, and Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (though neither is a duchess when the novel opens). Here are a couple of excerpts from the early part of the novel, one per
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If you happened to visit your local bookstore on January 1, you might have asked yourself this question, “Where, pray tell, is The Queen of Last Hopes, which Susan has been saying for the last nine months or so would be published on January 1?” I was experiencing rather similar emotions this weekend: So where
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Karen over at A Nevill Feast has been posting some scenes she left out of her work-in-progress, and if the outtakes are any indication, I’m looking forward to the completed product! Anyway, that inspired me to post two of the snippets that didn’t make it into the The Queen of Last Hopes, one involving Humphrey,
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Since my new editor at Sourcebooks liked the manuscript for The Queen of Last Hopes and hasn’t requested any major changes, I’ve placed an excerpt on my website. Hope you enjoy it! It’s scheduled for publication in January 2011.
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