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Magic Most Deadly Cover Reveal
This cover. You guys. I thought it was going to kill me. The delays. The parting of ways with my first cover designer. My blithe assurance to her that I had it all under control. The near panic as I...
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Magic Most Deadly Launch Day
This is it! Today is the day my firstborn book child officially enters the world. I am so pleased and proud to be able to announce … Magic Most Deadly For Maia Whitney, life after the Great War is...
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Magical World-building, Louise Style
I distinctly remember the first time I discovered the world of Cecy and Kate. I was in the Scranton library, one of my first visits there after we moved from our apartment to the duplex and our former...
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Introducing …
It has exactly one sentence so far, but I couldn’t resist taking a screen shot to show you: Yes, in the midst of writing Wings of Song, I have started work on Magic Most Deadly’s sequel. Working title...
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Secret Project, Secret No More
You remember that post I wrote back in February, about the need to finish the first draft I was working on so I could get started on the first draft of the book I was supposed to be writing? Well, I...
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Top Ten Unique Books
1. Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers A detective story, a romance, a psychological novel, or something else entirely? I’ve never been able to make up my mind, but never have I read something so utterly...
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Lloyd Alexander and Diversity
An incomplete (but pertinent) bibliography of Lloyd Alexander’s works for young people: Time Cat, 1963. Takes place in ancient Egypt, Rome, Britain, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Peru, Isle of Man, Germany,...
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The Non-Problem of Susan
I always wondered what it would take for me to finally break down and write that “There is no problem of Susan” post. Today, I found out. There’s a meme going around Tumblr about “Susan Pevensie walks...
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Narnia, Redux
We took a little break after finishing Voyage of the Dawn Treader, to read some picture books, some Christmas books, and Children of the Noisy Village, but now the holidays are over and we have...
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Magic Most Deadly Sequel! (Soon)
Well! Thanks to Camp NaNoWriMo, I managed to get the entire first draft of Magic Most Deadly’s sequel written in a month. One month! I started at the end of June, and finished right before the end of...
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Just An Ordinary Monday
Today as part of school, I’m having the kids draw fantasy maps. I want them to include five things: a sea, mountains, a forest, a river, and roads. Other than that, it’s completely up to them. I showed...
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Joyful Work
Those of you who enjoyed Magic Most Deadly will be happy to know that I am currently hard at work on revisions of the sequel (thus far, the working title of Magic in Disguise seems to be sticking). You...
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The Importance of Story
(Note: This is the first part of my presentation at the H-W Library, edited for this blog. The rest of the talk was on From the Shadows specifically, which may or may not make it into another post;...
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Magic in Disguise: Progress
I have passed the halfway point on Magic in Disguise! This book has been more exhausting than any I’ve ever worked on, published or unpublished. I started it immediately after publishing Magic Most...
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Holiday Book Sale
Need a break after the holiday (and possibly the shopping following the holiday)? Escape with Magic Most Deadly; an Agatha Christie-esque mystery (with a dash of magic); or From the Shadows, a...
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Where Are Your Roots?
The great lady herself I follow Susan Cooper’s fan page on FB, and when I saw a couple weeks back that she was going to be doing a book signing/reading/talk in Cambridge, MA, I gasped in delight and...
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Magic & Mayhem
A long time ago–in 2013, which is about 200 years in book publishing reckoning–I published Magic Most Deadly, a fantasy-mystery set in England in the 1920s, described by one reader as “Dorothy L Sayers...
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Pre-Order Glamours & Gunshots
Glamours & Gunshots is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Glamours & Gunshots Pre-Order Maia Whitney has held men as they died before, but never in peacetime, and never in her aunt’s front...
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Glamours and Gunshots Release Day
It’s here at last! Glamours & Gunshots, available to purchase today! If you enjoy mysteries set in 1920s England, stories set in the real world but with a twist of magic, if you enjoy men and women...
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Easter Eggs
“Think how exciting it would be,” went on Tuppence, “if we heard a wild rapping at the door and went to open it and in staggered a dead man.” “If he was dead he couldn’t stagger,” said Tommy...
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