I
am delighted, excited, and generally over the moon to unveil the cover of my
upcoming young adult fantasy novel, due out on July 31, 2018 from Book View Café. May I please present...
The best-laid plans, even of
princesses, can go awry...very, very awry.
Seventeen-year-old Saraid of Thekla is on her way to
marry the ruler of far-off Mauburni. But she’s not sobbing into her
silk-curtained litter at the thought of leaving home, because she has plans—and
The Book. She’s studied this ancient treatise on the art of kingship for months to make herself the ideal queen
for her adopted country. Once her new husband sees
that, he’ll fall madly in love with her. It will all be perfect. She knows
it.
But The Book is silent on
what to do when one’s journey across a cursed desert wasteland is halted by a
mysterious young warlord. Cadel has plans of his own—plans that don’t include
her going to Mauburni. As she begins to unravel his secrets, Saraid will have
to put aside The Book and trust her own wisdom—and her heart—to navigate the
treacherous shoals of politics and power and become the queen she yearns to
be.
Between
Silk and Sand (stop by my website for more info and a sneak peek at the first chapter! ) is my first young adult novel in...well, a long time. It’s been a
long time coming, too—I wrote the first incarnation of this story as my very
first book back in 2003. It’s almost unrecognizable as that book I wrote so
long ago (which is a good thing, believe me—that first effort was terrible!), but it’s a story I had to
tell...and now, here it is. Regina wrote a few weeks back about how important a
writer’s friends can be. Without the friends who read parts or all of Between
Silk and Sand and gave me their honest, thoughtful opinions and then pushed me
to not give up, this book would never have happened...and to all those friends,
this book is dedicated.
And
isn’t the cover gorgeous? I cannot
thank Book View Café’s Dave Smeds enough for his beautiful work on it—it
truly sings.
Between
Silk and Sand will be available at all the major on-line retailers—Amazon,
Barnes and Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo, and GooglePlay (all of where it can be
pre-ordered--link for Amazon coming shortly)--as well as, of
course, Book View Café’s own online store (which you really need to check out
if you haven’t already because there’s a wealth of good reading there) and in print from your favorite bookstores. You can also add it to your want-to-read list on Goodreads here.
I'm so excited! I hope you'll check out my pretty new book!
2 comments:
Oh, yay! I have to squeal! I have been waiting for this book to come out ever since Marissa asked me to read the first chapter years ago. You can bet I'll be preordering my copy forthwith. Awesome story! I'm so glad you found a cover to do it justice, my dear.
Thank you! Re the cover, it was really cool to work with Dave looking for images and fonts and seeing it (even if imperfectly) through the eyes of a designer. I learned a lot.
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