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Gone West covers

04/10/2012

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The latest Daisy--cover art. Which do you prefer?
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US hardcover
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UK edition
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Another large print Regency...

09/26/2011

 
Coming in November, My Lord Winter in large print, US and UK
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Lady Jane, neglected by her busy father and the beautiful mother who won't acknowledge having a grown-up daughter, sets off for London with her beloved governess. Their ancient carriage collapses en route, and they're forced to take refuge with Lord Wintringham, whose nickname, Lord Winter, describes him to a T. However, Jane, pretending to be a poor commoner, finds that there's more to Lord Winter than appears on the chilly surface. When they meet again in London, winter turns towards spring. But now Lord Winter trusts her, how can she admit her deception?
And could spring be in the air for a far-from-elderly governess, too?
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Regency news

08/04/2011

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My Regencies are doing very nicely now that they're available for Kindle.

Also, two more are coming out in large print, one this month, one in November, in UK and US.
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This is the August one--written originally in response to a request from my editor to write a book with a baby in it!

Thorndike's blurb: It wasn’t all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain’s ne’er-do-well husband met an untimely end. But Laura was left without a spouse‚ without means … and with child. Her unlikely savior was the dashing Lord Wyckham‚ who deemed it his duty to protect her. Soon she was ensconced in his ancestral manor‚ surrounded by eccentric relatives. But Wyckham was the oddest of all: a confirmed bachelor‚ he treated Laura as anything but an unwanted relation.
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This is the paperback cover.
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Back to the beginning...

07/09/2011

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Nice review of Death at Wentwater Court, the first Daisy mystery, written by a fan of the Golden Age detective story writers:

http://at-scene-of-crime.blogspot.com/2011/07/killed-on-ice.html

I can't find an image of the original hardcover artwork, but it wasn't very inspiring. Let's have another Which do you like best? with the other editions:
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UK edition
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US paperback
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First German edition
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Second German edition!
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Audio edition
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Large print edition
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Anthem in large print

06/23/2011

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Anthem for Doomed Youth is out in large print now. Three editions, three different covers--Which do you prefer?
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This is the US large print edition.
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US hardcover
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UK edition
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Murderous Regency

12/08/2010

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Today Captain Ingram's Inheritance comes out in large print. Strictly speaking, it's not a mystery, but it has three attempted murders in it, so it's definitely crime fiction! It's the third of a trilogy, so here's a bit about them all.

The first is Miss Jacobson's Journey. It's a story about smuggling gold across enemy France to Lord Wellington's troops in the Peninsula, to pay the troops. The British government was in despair because the French sank so many of their ships carrying gold for the soldiers. The Rothschilds came to the rescue (true) and Miriam Jacobson got caught up in their schemes (fiction), escorted by two handsome young men who loathed each other.
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Lord Roworth's Reward: Felix Roworth, his father deeply in debt, works as a courier for Nathan Rothschild. After Napoleon's escape from Elba, Felix is in Brussels, awaiting the outcome of the coming battle between the allies and the French. Sharing his lodgings are Fanny and Frank Ingram. Frank, an artillery officer, is badly wounded at Quatre Bras. Felix is torn between his duty to his employer and his desire to help Fanny get Frank to safety in England.
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Captain Ingram's Inheritance: Frank Ingram, seriously injured, is nursed by Lord Roworth's sister, Lady Constantia. He falls in love but, a poor soldier, he can't aspire to her hand, until he hears of an unexpected inheritance. But someone doesn't want Captain Ingram to take possession of his estate...
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e-book (the actual uniform of an artillery officer)
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A Colourful Death in Large Print

09/21/2010

 
A COLOURFUL DEATH is now out in large print in the US and UK.
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This looks like a real Cornish village. Just like Port Mabyn, in fact!
 

Lord Roworth's Reward

09/02/2010

 
I just found out:
 "Amazon.com sent out a message today about the forthcoming publication of [my Regency] Lord Roworth's Reward in large print. It was the featured book of the day."

 Wow, Amazon has good taste!
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This is the cover of the e-book version, available at www.RegencyReads.com and other e-book sellers.

I'd post the original paperback cover, which is really cute, except I lost the .jpg when I switched computers and I'd have to scan it. Someday...
This is the second in my Rothschild Trilogy. In the first, Miss Jacobson's Journey, Miriam Jacobson is involved in a plan to smuggle Rothschild gold across France to pay Wellington's army in the Peninsula. Lord Roworth is one of her travelling companions. In the second book, he is Nathan Rothschild's agent in Brussels during the Battle of Waterloo. He shares lodgings with an artillery officer, Frank Ingram, and his sister Fanny, and their 3-yr-old ward. When Frank is badly wounded at the Battle of Quatre Bras, Fanny turns to Roworth for help.
 

What's in the mail?

02/17/2010

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One interesting facet of being a writer, especially one with a long backlist, is that I never know what the mail is going to bring.

Last week, for instance, one day I got a cheque for the English editions of Daisy's 4th, 5th and 6th adventures (Murder on the Flying Scotsman, Damsel in Distress, and Dead in the Water). At least, insofar as I can understand St Martin's royalty statements, that's mostly what it was for. On Friday, I got a royalty cheque for sales of the e-books of Regencies written and published long ago. Yesterday, three copies of the UK large print edition of Daisy's first--Death at Wentwater Court--arrived. I didn't even know those rights had been sold! (Really must learn to read St Martin's statements. If only they weren't in such small print! Still, that's what I have an agent for)

Then there's email. Today I got the final version of the cover of A Colourful Death, my second Cornish mystery. I posted the original version last month. The only difference is that the slash has been lengthened to cross not only my name but the title. It now looks more like a slash and less like a nasty mistake. I think it's an improvement; how about you? Here's the new one:
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I received an ARC in the mail yesterday. The slash on the cover looks even better "in person" so to speak. So real I actually touched it to make sure it wasn't there.


My editor also sent me the review quotes that will be on the back of the book. Some really nice ones for Manna from Hades! I've posted them on the Cornish Mysteries page.

Last week, I had an email from an English theatre company interested in adapting Daisy for the stage. There's a BBC TV personality involved with the company--who knows where it might lead? Or it might not. You never can be sure.

 Also in my inbox was an invitation to help out at the Sisters in Crime booth at the American Library Association conference in Portland in March. I've always wanted to go to ALA and it's always been somewhere I couldn't get to. I didn't even know it was in Portland this year. So here I have a chance to schmooze with fellow SinC members (aka sibs) and large numbers of librarians, who are some of my favourite people.

I wonder what's in the mail today. Excuse me, I'd better run out and check...    Oops, nearly fell over a package the UPS man left between front door and screen door--two copies of Sheer Folly in Large Print. Any librarians reading this?
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