i’m very excited to finally share the cover
for Fury of the Phoenix, my sequel to Silver Phoenix!
wait cindy, you say, this looks different from your
debut cover. a lot different.
i know. i know!
both the Silver Phoenix paperback
(out on feb. 1, 2011) and Fury of the Phoenix
(out april 2011) have been repackaged. it’s
something that isn’t at all [...]
a few weekends ago, i was very happy to attend
my friend, lisa’s, signing at Mysterious Galaxy
for her debut, Rock Paper Tiger.
it’s gotten great press and critical reviews!
American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out
in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur—a member
of a Chinese Muslim minority—at the home of her sort-of
boyfriend Lao [...]
a stack of books.
dogeared pages.
nose in a book.
creased spine.
the well worn pages of a treasured favorite.
the smell of a new book.
to judge a book by its cover.
to curl up with a book.
to flip the page.
yesterday morning, on a whim, i decided to do
an impromptu twitter and facebook poll asking :
with all the talk about ebooks, [...]
you WANT these two debut novels. trust me.
they are both wonderful and very different
fantasy novels.
Love can be a dangerous thing….
Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna’s tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the [...]
i’m in between revisions again and more
than a little obsessed with Fury of the Phoenix.
it’s a fantastic all-consuming a little maddening
feeling. i write in my head constantly, am thinking
of plot and scene and dialogue and character.
and god knows what’s getting lost sometimes
due to The Hole in My Head. but i think i retain most
of it, [...]