Do you like to have stories read to you? Sure you do. It’s a cozy and comfortable thing. Sometimes Mark reads to me, and it’s so cozy and comfortable, I often fall asleep.
Wait. That’s not where I meant to go. I’m just terrible at this promo stuff.
What I’m trying to tell you is that Audible is going to make an audiobook of The Queen and The Tower–the first book in my Nightcraft Quartet. Which is so incredibly awesome!!! It’s a first-person narrator with a strong voice; I think it will make a super enjoyable listen. I’ve read sections of the book at conventions and such, and audiences always just love it.
You’re going to have to wait a bit, though–I’m still editing the book. We’d hoped to have it out later this year, but Our Lady of the Islands took precedence, for very good and reasonable reasons, so I put Q&T aside. Now Our Lady is all done and in production, and will be out in early December…Q&T will come next year.
But this is the novel I’ve been working on–off and on, with a LOT of off–for years and years now. This is the story of Callie–Calendula Isadora–a young witch trying to make a life in modern-day San Francisco. This is the novel I had an agent for, many moons ago; fortunately (I now see), she wasn’t able to sell it, because it wasn’t ready. What you will eventually read is leaps and bounds better than what it was then.
I’m working on it now–slowly, but definitely. Life is interrupting a lot; planning a wedding takes a lot of bandwidth! But I’m moving forward. And in a month, or two, I’ll have a good draft to send to Brilliant Editor Jak; and some time after that, we’ll have a final version to hand over to Audible, and then they’ll find an awesome narrator, and then maybe, if you like that kind of thing, someone will read you my story.
Which is, I have to say, the coolest thing. You know? 🙂