BLOGGNG TODAY WITH KAREN MICHELLE NUTT

I'm blogging today with good friend Karen Michelle Nutt about Ireland, my pesky muse and my book The King's Daughter.  Hope some of you can join us at www.kmnbooks.blogspot.com

READER REVIEW

I was very touched to receive an unsolicited reader review for my book the King's Daughter.  Thanks to Erin O'Quinn for permission to post in its entirety since no link is available:

At first I shook my head at the unfamiliar place names (Landsreel, the Alcinic Ocean) and the mention of several mysterious beings (the Holy Sisters, the Goddess, the High Born). Then, by the time I had read the second chapter, I was fully swept up in the intricately described life of Tia, the young daughter of the king who is to be used as the pawn in her father’s desperate attempt to save and perpetuate his kingdom. 

I always appreciate subtle detail that also sets place and mood, and Miriam is very good at it. Read, for instance, this description of riders now dismounted, leaving the royal stables: “men crested in a wave through the front entrance, boots hammering the floor, bearing the mixed scent of sweat, leather, and horses with them. . . . I heard varying thuds of greater and lesser buttocks meeting chairs, the solid sound of drinking vessels on the wooden table, and then silence.” Combine those details with the images of honey-cakes, bathing tubs, verbena soap; and this particularly well-imagined detail:  “Andun threw back his chair so hard it left curls of wax in the freshly-polished floor.”

Detail by detail, Miriam builds her setting. By the time the book opens on chapter 4, I am hollow-throated along with Tia, wondering how the king could consign this lovely young girl to the embraces of a man “thrice her age.”

I can tell already that this book will be a page-turner and a tale intricately wrought as a medieval tapestry. I will continue my comments later. For now, let this introduction be enough for a while to persuade you to buy The King's Daughter by Miriam Newman.

www.miriamnewman.com 

GIVEAWAY 3/6/12

Win a copy of my fantasy historical The King’s Daughter, digital or print, at Manic Readers today: http://manicreaders.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/the-kings-daughter-miriam-newman/comment-page-1/#comment-11285

NEW RELEASE - THE KING'S DAUGHTER BY MIRIAM NEWMAN

I was the King's daughter once, so many years ago that sometimes now it is hard to remember. Before the tide of time carried away so many things, so many people, it was worth something to be the daughter of a King.
Our little island nation of Alcinia was not rich, except for tin mines honeycombing the south. It wasn't even hospitable. Summer was a brief affair and fall was only a short time of muted colors on the northernmost coast where my father sat his throne at the ancient Keep of Landsfel. Winter was the killing time and spring was hardly better, with frosts that could last into Fifth-Month. But from the south, where men cut thatch in a pattern like the bones of fish, to the north where rock roses spilled down cliffs to the sea, it was my own.
One thinks such things will never change, yet all things do.
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Thus begins the narrative memoir of Tarabenthia, born a princess in the land of Alcinia.  When the idyll of her childhood ends, she will defy her father, tipping the balance in a world poised on the brink of destruction and leaving history to judge her as heroine or harlot.

In a time of war, what would you surrender in the name of love?
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Just released, available in pdf or on Kindle, coming in print:

All digital formats and Print 2/27/12:  http://rebeccajvickery.com/online-store.php

KINDLE: http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Daughter-Chronicles-Alcinia-ebook/dp/B0079JHX28  

SMASHWORDS:  https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/132900

LULU: www.lulu.com/product/ebook/the-kings-daughter/18892069

A multiple award winner, top ten finisher in Preditors & Editors poll for Best Romance Novel of 2008, re-releasing in print 2/27/12.

If you're a fan of fantasy historical romance, do not miss this one.

COMING FEBRUARY 15, 2012 - "THE KING'S DAUGHTER"

With a fantastic new trailer: 

THE KING'S DAUGHTER

Just want to share some happy news with my blog family.  This one is really special to me.  My fantasy historical romance, The King's Daughter, has been accepted by Victory Tales Press and will be re-released in February, 2012.  The book will be available in print this time and I will probably put my copy on my pillow and kiss it every night!  Honestly, I'm so in love with this book and hero that it's embarrassing.  What can I say?  It got 5+ reviews out the wazoo, so apparently some other people liked it, too.  If you didn't catch it first time out or want it in print, it will be available in February. 

The book is Book I of the Chronicles of Alcinia, the story of Tarabenthia, born to a dying queen and an ambitious king.  Tia is heir to the throne, but when the idyll of her childhood ends she defies her father, tipping the balance in a world poised on the brink of war--leaving history to judge whether she is heroine or harlot.  In a time of war, what would you sacrifice in the name of love?

Here's a peek at the cover by Laura Shinn:

If you like historical fantasy in settings reminiscent of Ancient Rome and Roman Britain, I hope you'll consider giving this one a try when it's available.  But in any case, enjoy Laura's cover!  :)