This is a new edition of my novel, with even a shiny new ISBN number, 1-58348-475-2. I’ve made some minor stylistic changes and corrected some typographical errors that have been nagging at me for two years, but otherwise it’s the same book, just prettier. (For those who are curious about the matter, this edition is …
I visited my Amazon page today and was pleased to find that my Amazon Short, a short piece of historical fiction called The Justiciar’s Wife, is available for download now, for the princely price of 49 cents. (Yup, that’s my mug on the cover.) It’s set during the Barons’ Wars of thirteenth-century England and features …
I haven’t been blogging much lately, but I’ve an excellent excuse–I’ve been working on a short story, set in 13th-century England, that I submitted to Amazon Shorts. It hasn’t yet been accepted for publication (from I what I’ve read, it usually takes a few weeks to hear something, and acceptance isn’t a sure thing), but …
Just when I was beginning to wonder how I would next promote my novel, Alianor, through Bourgeois Nerd, pointed toward The Advertising Slogan Generator. Here are just a few. I’m on my way to have the T-shirts printed now: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Traitor’s Wife You’ve Always Got Time for Traitor’s Wife A Traitor’s …
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I’m tickled pick–or make that silver–to announce that The Traitor’s Wife won the silver award in the historical fiction category in ForeWord Magazine‘s 2005 Book of the Year Awards. My family was kind enough to drive me to Washington, D.C., this weekend to BookExpo America, where the results were announced this Friday. They were also …
Exciting day for us in the state of North Carolina today–we now have a state lottery! For now, all we have are the tickets that you scratch and match; we’ll get the big-boy random drawings later. I’m not a high-stakes gambler by any means; one or two $1 tickets is pretty much my limit. But …
C’mon, I don’t often get the chance to do this! I’m delighted to announce that The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II (that’s my baby), has been named one of 15 finalists in the Historical Fiction category of ForeWord Magazine‘s 2005 Book of the Year Awards. The awards were established to …
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A couple of weeks ago, the computer on which I do most of my novel-writing suddenly refused to start up properly. I consulted a local geek (that’s what computer guys seem to like to be called these days), who diagnosed it as having a corrupt profile, but had no idea why, even after consulting other …