TO DEFY A KING - Agent approves anyway!

Agent stayed up until 3.30 in the morning to finish To Defy a King. She said:

'I love the manuscript. I felt bereft when it stopped. Wow oh wow.'

Now, obviously she is my agent and I'm her client, but even so, I am wiping my brow with relief that it has passed the first hurdle now it's out in the world. I still have to hear from editors - they are reading it this weekend.

I guess my News blog is the only place where I trumpet blow. I don't like doing it more broadly online because the 'look at me' stuff gets stale very quickly and I'd rather talk history, writing and books in more general terms than my latest puff - so I confine the 'me' stuff to here!

Oh, and here's the video trailer!

To Defy a King - finished and handed in!

A note to say that I handed in my story of Mahelt Marshal and Hugh Bigod today. To Defy a King is now officially into the next stage of production i.e. out of the writer's hand and heading (6 drafts later!) into the world.

The Greatest Knight Book Trailer!

Well, I've been fiddling again, and here's the book trailer for The Greatest Knight Sourcebooks edition, published in the USA on September 1st.

Sneak Preview!

Here's a sneak preview of the cover of The Running Vixen. This is draft, it's not quite done and there will be a couple of minor alterations, but the gist is the same. I really like it!

American Ammendment!

Here it is, the Source Book jacket for The Greatest Knight. I love it!
So well have advance orders to booksellers been going that Source Books have decided to follow up in the spring of 2010 with The Scarlet Lion rather than their original plan of Lords of the White Castle.
This makes a lot more sense all round and I am pleased to bits.
I am busy working on some new pages about the Marshals for my website at the moment and should have them up in a few weeks' time.

I have another cover to share with readers soon - The Running Vixen roughs are in and the overall look is terrific. I hope to post in a couple of weeks, so look out for that.

COMING TO AMERICA!

Yes!
Source Books now have my USA cover for THE GREATEST KNIGHT up at Amazon.com!
It's being published September 1st!
url here:

http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Knight-Unsung-Queens-Champion/dp/1402225180/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238963335&sr=1-3

EVENTS GALORE!

I've cut and pasted the below from my Events and Titles blog, but thought I might as well have it in 2 places as an announcement. I'm going to be doing quite a bit of toing and froing throughout the end of Feb, March and April. If anyone wants to come along and I'm nearby, do drop in and say hi! Gracious knows when I'll get any writing done, but this is still a part of the job I enjoy. I will be bringing my medieval shoes and my strip of mail shirt to talks!

February 26th. Birkbeck College, London. 6.30 pm
Talk on writing historical fiction, specifically about the Marshals.

Wednesday March 4th. Talk at Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row. 2pm in the afternoon!

Thursday March 5th. Talk and booksigning at Waterstones in Bury st Edmunds. 5 - 6.30pm.
36 Butter Market Bury St. Edmunds.

Wednesday March 18th. Talk at Shrewsbury Library with medieval music too (apparently!). Starts 7pm. Parts of the library date back to the 1450's. Can't wait!

Thursday March 19th. Talks at Dudley Library West Midlands. 10.30 am and 2pm.

Friday 27th March. Talk at Leominster Library. 7pm.

Thursday 2nd April. Talk at Weston Favell Library Northampton. 7.30 pm.

Monday 6th April. Talk at Ramsbottom Library 7pm

Wednesday 15th April. Talk in London - Kensington and Chelsea Libraries. This will be a joint talk with Katie Hickman, author of The Aviary Gate. 6.30 - 8pm

Thursday 16th April. Event at Merton Library, Surrey with Katie Hickman. Another joint talk starting at 7.30 pm.

Friday 17th April. Event at Knowle Library, Solihull. 2.30 pm

Thursday April 23rd. Event at Northwich Library, Cheshire. 6-7pm