Only a week to go before the release of my little steampunk sugarplum, Devices Brightly Shining! Thanks so much to all of you who have preordered it! Now, rather as one would nibble the marzipan off the Christmas fruitcake, here is an excerpt from Chapter 1. Devices Brightly Shining Copyright 2015 by Shelley Adina Chapter…
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me Dreadful relations, high expectations, And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee. It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a…
Christmas. I can feel you shuddering from here, going, “Are you mad? The school year has only just begun! Run away—far away!” But in the land of publishing, the Christmas season starts, oh, at the end of September, when you’ll see a blizzard of snow and ribbons and sparkly book covers going up online. Rather like…