The Cover For To Defy a King!

Not quite complete but as near as to be ready. This is the first exposure online of the cover for TO DEFY A KING, due out May 2010. It's low resolution at the moment, but I hope to have a 'proper' one up soon.
I am so pleased with this cover. It says historical fiction, but with a twist. Hooray!

Cover for To Defy A King

Sorry, you can't see it yet. I've only just seen it in rought draft. But wow, oh WOW! I knew they were going to come with something slightly different, but what I've just seen is TRULY fabulous.

To Defy a King: Little Brown Spring Catalogue

This kind of explains itself. Scanned page from Little Brown's Spring Catalogue! Click on the photo to enlarge and read the text if you want.

Bits and bobs

Meant to say but forgot. I've put up a biography of John Marshal at my blog. It will then be going onto my website as a permanent fixture once Thea my website designer has done her thing. http://livingthehistoryelizabethchadwick.blogspot.com/2009/10/biography-of-john-marshal.html

I have put the first chapter of my work in progress at my Excerpts blog.
http://elizabethchadwicks.blogspot.com/


In other news my agent has sold The Greatest Knight, The Scarlet Lion, A Place Beyond Courage and Daughters of the Grail to Turkey. Also The Greatest Knight has sold to Hungary.

Loves Me Loves Me Not

I keep forgetting to mention this book, which is totally remiss of me. It's an anthology of short stories to celebrate 50 years of the Romantic Novelists Association in the UK.
There are forty new stories including contributions from Joanna Trollope, Katie Fforde, Adele Parks, Maureen Lee, Judy Astley, and umm...Elizabeth Chadwick. :-)
My own story, titled A CLEAN START, is about John Marshal's washerwoman and features a cameo moment from John himself, although the story is firmly about the lady and her dilemmas.

Amazon UK url here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Loves-Me-Not-MIRA/dp/0778303217/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255109421&sr=8-1

More languages!

Yippee, great news from my agent a few minutes ago! We have just agreed a four book deal with Turkey for A Place Beyond Courage, The Greatest Knight, The Scarlet Lion and Daughters of the Grail! Earlier this week Hungary bought The Greatest Knight. Not sure how many languages that brings me up to without consulting my agent but I reckon it's about 16. Anyway, it's a lovely note on which to end the day!

New e-mail account.

Hello everyone.

I returned from holiday to find my e-mail account with BT had very messily died in my absence. Not being inclined (after two TRULY TERRIBLE experiences with BT's non UK call centres) to get them to fix things this time around I have done what needed doing long ago, and transferred elsewhere. This does mean though that for the past week I have been unable to read any incoming e-mails to my Elizabeth Chadwick account, and also that until I get things moved over, I won't be able to read incoming e-mails on my old account.
If anyone does want to get in touch with me, my new account address as of today (Saturday 12th September 2009) is elizabethchadwick@live.co.uk So sorry for any inconvenience, but believe me, this is sooooo much easier than going through the torturous circular rigmarole of a BT overseas call centre experience (shudder).