Maggie nudged Lizzie out of the way and took her place at the window overlooking the track down to the cottage. “She ent comin’ any faster wi’ you there watching instead o’ me, Mags.” “I know, but it makes me feel better.” “Maybe she won’t come at all. Them fancy folks ‘ave balls an’ dinners…
The other night I went to a panel discussion called “The Future of Publishing,” hosted by the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. It was moderated by Guy Kawasaki, author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, and the panelists were Barry Eisler, author; Clark Kepler, CEO/bookseller; Dane Neller, CEO, On Demand Books (the company that makes the…
In Magnificent Devices, Andrew Malvern (spoiler alert!) is imprisoned atop a pinnacle cell—a spire of rock from which there is no escape. Have you seen the first few seconds of the trailer for The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp? Methinks Mr. Verbinski has been reading the Devices series (well, a girl can dream, can’t she?):…
Coming in February 2013! The amazingly talented Claudia at Phat Puppy Art created another beautiful cover for the Magnficient Devices series. She blended two photographs that I took in Paris and London this past fall, and merged them in behind the model to create this one-of-a-kind cover. I’m thrilled—and I hope you all like it,…
Even in the 1800s, the hospital known as Bedlam (Bethlehem Royal Hospital) was separated from the general neighborhood by a wall. Imagination supplied location and height in Her Own Devices, but when I was onsite, I wanted to see how accurage both might be. Here’s a passage: Their single greatest advantage was that the walls of…