One of the things that makes you feel like a real author (even when you already know you are and have held your own books in your hands) is traveling some place for book research. Even if you travel all the time for work, vacation, to visit family, etc, there’s...
I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally be able to share with you the cover of THE EIGHTH DAY, my debut MG fantasy! The book will soon be appearing in HarperCollins’s Summer 2014 catalog, and HarperCollins gave me the opportunity to scoop the catalog...
On Friday, before I left work, I received an email from an assistant editor at HarperCollins giving me a heads-up that I could expect galley copies of THE EIGHTH DAY to arrive on Saturday for my review.Around 7pm on that same day, I received an email from my editor...
Geoffrey of MonmouthLast week, I shared my explorations in Wales, where I visited sites linked by folklore with King Arthur. I also read a book that took each piece of “historical” proof for Arthur’s existence and subjected it to the standards of a court of law,...
Roman Amphitheater at CaerleonMy upcoming book, THE EIGHTH DAY, has a tie to Arthurian legends – with, I hope, a unique spin on them – so I wanted to do research for the series while I was in Wales. During my visit, I found out that South Wales may truly be the origin...
Last week, I was feeling a little depressed. I had just turned in editorial revisions for THE EIGHTH DAY. The manuscript was off to the copy-editing department, and now I had to face my draft of THE EIGHTH DAY #2. And I couldn’t stand to look at it. The first...
