BRAG Medallion holiday drawing
As you might be aware, Lady of Devices became a BRAG (Book Readers Appreciation Group) Medallion honoree this year. I’m excited to say that these nice folks are having a cool contest. Try your luck!
(Headline translation: One more time–in German!) As I’ve mentioned before, Lady of Devices has been translated into German, and I’m preparing both the digital and print versions for publication as we speak. I recently got the cover art from designer Kalen O’Donnell, featuring art by Claudia McKinney at Phat Puppy, and was delighted with it….
One of the Magnificent Devices characters that people seem to enjoy most is Rosie the chicken, that globetrotting red hen who is ready for any adventure, as long as there are bugs and seeds at the conclusion of it. As many of you might know, I live in an urban area and I rescue chickens….
As many of you know, I want to make my books available to readers in the formats they want to read. This means digital, print, audiobooks, and translations. I’m delighted to announce that today, La Dame aux Artifices, book one in the Magnificent Devices series, is available to French language speakers! Thanks go to Frédérique…
Chapter 1 London, 1889 To say the explosion rocked the laboratory at St. Cecelia’s Academy for Young Ladies might have overstated the case, but she was still never going to hear the end of it. Claire Trevelyan closed her eyes as a gobbet of reddish-brown foam dripped off the ceiling and landed squarely on the…
I was talking to a young man on a bus in Munich once and he told me that often literary translations are so poor that the German folks would rather take English classes and read in the original than deal with the poor translations. (Hm, thought I. No wonder the Devices books sell so well in…
Many of you, being of a technical turn of mind, will remember the TV show MacGyver, where a spy with a lot of engineering talent got himself and others out of scrapes by putting together a piece of string, a paper clip, and who knows what else, and blowing up the bad guys. The character’s…
Congratulations on receiving the honor, Shelley!