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Na zdravi, Silent Hearts! Gān bēi! Şerefe! Cent’ anni!

October 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

 

I came home late to an email from my editor informing me that Silent Hearts is going to be translated into Czech, for publication in September 2019.

That makes four languages now for my book. A Chinese publisher acquired the rights recently, and before that, Turkish and Italian publishers also weighed in.

In Gwen’s Rich Fantasy life, I’d travel to all those places in a few years to see if I could find my book on store or library shelves, which would be a challenge, admittedly, in China. But it would be great fun.

In the interest of avoiding bankruptcy, I think I’ll just lift a glass of a country-appropriate adult beverage instead:

Pilsner Urquell for the Czech Republic

 

 

 

 

 

Tsingtao for China

 

 

 

 

 

A brave gulp of raki for Turkey

 

 

 

 

 

And – it goes without saying – an elegant thimble-full of Florio marsala for Italy. Cent’ anni, indeed, Silent Hearts. Hope you’re still gracing shelves in a hundred years.

Leave a Comment Tags: Silent Hearts, Simon and Schuster

Some Sentences, January 2018 – Some shameless self-promotion

January 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Jan. 17, 2018 – Because that’s how things work these days. The pub date for Silent Hearts is still six interminable months out, but you can pre-order it from so many different places.

Incentive? Richard Fifield (The Flood Girls) calls it his favorite book of the year!

Here’s where to click to find out more or pre-order: Indiebound, Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million and Amazon.

 

 

 

 

 

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Some Sentences, Dec. 2017 – Cover story

December 18, 2017 Leave a Comment

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I’ve had wonderful luck with the covers of my book, starting with Lon Kirschner’s designs for my first two, one of which (Montana) was based on my beloved Rocky Mountain Front.

And then, Ellen Lawson’s terrific  work on the next three, for Midnight Ink, which managed to capture both the beauty of the landscape and the ominous subject matter.

And now comes the cover for Silent Hearts, designed by Patti Ratchford at Simon & Schuster. All I can say is – wowza! It so perfectly captures what I hope to convey with the novel.

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Some Sentences, Nov. 21 – Thankful for a title

November 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

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IMG_3751Nov. 21, 2017 – It’s Thanksgiving week, and we all know what that means.

Pie!

Oh, and being thankful for all of our blessings. Like pie!

But I’m doubly thankful this year because, after months of possibilities and rejection, my standalone novel finally has a title.

Drum roll … Silent Hearts. You can read about it here. But you can’t see the cover yet. Maybe that’ll be next month’s surprise.

Hoping y’all have the best of Thanksgivings, filled with lots of you-know-what.

Leave a Comment Tags: Atria, Silent Hearts, Simon and Schuster, Some Sentences Nov. 2017

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