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  • Happy Sunday – Emerald Keep Is Available For Pre-Order!

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    Emerald Keep is out in the wild! It\’s available for pre-order from Torquere Press. I\’m so excited!

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  • Emerald Keep

    \"emeraldkeep\"When Emerald Keeper Teeka returns to the city of Reghdad and leaves the harsh desert behind, he finds that not all dangers come from the Great Valley. The dangerous Daymonth is nearly upon them and no one can survive on the surface of the planet — but Senior Hunter Quill Mayer is trying to get to Reghdad, and Teeka, before the start of it. Even if he makes it, Emerald Keep denies Teeka\’s Contract with Senior Hunter Quill, and Teeka discovers his enemy is more powerful than any of them suspected and he will stop at nothing to separate Teeka and Quill — even by striking in the very heart of the city.

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  • Emerald Fire

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    On a far away world, a pampered city boy meets Heathcliff of the desert. Together, they must solve a murder and survive the harsh sands of the Great Valley; but can they trust each other?

    The harsh desert world of Persis has developed its own customs far from Old Earth. Keepers are cherished as caregivers and helpmeets to Hunters. During Emerald Keeper Teeka’s first Contract with Senior Hunter Brant, disaster strikes. Brant is killed and Teeka is stranded, surrounded by strangers, and unsure of who to trust. A dark and moody Hunter steps forward with an offer of partnership and protection. Teeka wonders what motivates the scarred and solitary Senior Hunter Quill.

    Both have hidden motives for agreeing, and both are suspicious of each other. But the Great Valley will force them to work together and build a trust born out of necessity and survival. Between the dangers of the harsh desert and the malice of a hidden enemy, Teeka and Quill must learn to believe in each other to find the truth.

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  • Join Me, and a Lionfish, at Delilah Devlin\’s Blog

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    The next stop on the Keepsake Tour – join me at Delilah Devlin\’s blog for a visit with a lionfish.

  • The Keepsake Tour: Join Me At Robyn Bachar\’s For an Interview

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    Another stop on the Emerald Keepsake Tour is ready for you.  C\’mon by and join me at the amazing Robyn Bachar\’s blog for an interview.

     

  • The Keepsake Tour – Official Edition!

    The Keepsake Tour – Official Edition!

     

    I\’m so excited!  It goes live April 1st, but I had to share.  Will, over at Pride Promotions, has made an absolutely fabulous series of graphics for the official part of the tour, and you can see it below.  Thank you to the wonderful bloggers and reviewers who have agreed to host us!

    And just for you, the Rafflecopter is now live.  I\’ve put the code for it below the image, so you can be sure to enter to win one of two Grand Prizes (handmade scarves, one by me and one by Rachel), and hand-drawn calligraphy bookmarks, and more.

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  • Day Seven of the Keepsake Tour

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    Happy Almost-Spring!  It\’s warming up, finally, and I actually got to walk home from work yesterday!  Very exciting.  Almost all the snow is melted, leaving what hardened rime of muck there is to hulk like a menace in the shadows.  (Hmm.  Must be feeling poetic, lol.)  We\’re going to the zoo today.

    But first, I wanted to show you the lovely scarf that Rachel is making for the Keepsake Tour!  This is the second of the two grand prizes.  It\’s a little less GREEN in real life, but it\’s hard to get the digital camera to cooperate.  She used a large needle, so the fabric is nice and cushy.

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    This next image is a different angle, but you can see the honeycomb pattern of the half-double crochet stitches that she used.  She likes this pattern because it crochets up quickly and makes a nice, lacy fabric that\’s warm.  She used a soft, synthetic yarn that\’s easily machine washable so it\’s not fussy to care for.

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    The lovely quilt underneath it was made by Anna Xavier, who is an amazing textile artist in her own right.  Rachel handed me a pillow when I said I was cold and I just stared it her, thinking, what the heck am I gonna do with a pillow?  Wear it on my feet?  She came over and flipped it open and it spread out into a lovely blanket.  Magic!  🙂

    So, Dear Reader, here\’s my question to you:  now that the weather is warming up in the Northern Hemisphere and not yet too bitterly cold in the Southern Hemisphere, what outdoor activities do you like to do?  

    Remember, all commenters during the Keepsake Tour will be entered to win some neat keepsakes, including this Emerald Keep Scarf, hand-crocheted by Rachel Wilder!

     

  • Join Me At The Divas of Desire, and Why I Knit

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    I was invited to visit The Divas of Desire to share a bit of why I knit. I hope you\’ll join me!

  • Thoughtful Thursday, 3D and Writing

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    Welcome to Thoughtful Thursday, where we chat about 3D and writing.  Today I have a bit of a twist on the topic.  Since Book 2 of the Persis Chronicles, Emerald Keep, is out on April 8th, I figured I\’d share a little bit about knitting and 3D and use the opportunity to share about the book, too.

    When Rachel and I created Persis, we wanted a world that valued handicrafts and the home arts.  The job of a homemaker has become invisible and thankless, thanks in part to the fact that it\’s largely women\’s work.  The women\’s liberation movement in the United States did a lot to emancipate women from being chained to the kitchen sink, but as a consequence, their traditional work of raising children and caring for the home became less than laudable.

    I have a friend who is about thirty-five years older than me.  She decided to stay home and raise five boys of her own, as well as twenty-nine foster children.  She told me that she\’s endured a lot of grief from women friends who said that she wasn\’t living up to her full potential, and that she was oppressed.  That made me sad, because she\’s an incredible mom and creates a home in which people enjoy spending time.

    Because of that, we wanted the home arts to be elevated in importance such that they were considered to be a critical part of society.  The job of the Keeper is a desirable part of the fabric of life.  Developed to support miners and livestock farmers, the Keepers are trained to manage household bookkeeping, cooking, and various arts.

    For our book release, we\’ve both made scarves.  The picture at the top of this post is the Emerald Keep Scarf.  I knitted it because I love to make things, and this was fun to do because it was referential to my own book.  I felt closer to the world we created by making something for the book, which is an unexpected side benefit.

    So tell me, what do you like to make, whether it\’s a meal or something artistic?

  • Announcing Day One of the Emerald Keep Keepsake Tour – Celebrating the Release of Book 2 of the Persis Chronicles!

    \"emeraldkeep\"Welcome to my new home on the web! Over the course of the next month, I\’ll be migrating here permanently. The Blogger blog will still be available in the archive, but we made the decision to move to this one because it makes it easier to keep everything in one place – all the writing, the knitting, coffee, and chocolate you could possibly want. And of course, cats. It\’s the internet. We must have cats.

    But for today, rather than cats, I\’ve got something even better for you, Dear Reader!  It\’s the brand new cover of Emerald Keep, hot off the presses – well, at least hot off the cover artist\’s computer.  The artist is Brandon Clay, and you can see more of his work, here.

    The Keepsake Tour is a little different – instead of giving away gift cards or other electronic media, we decided to give away something tangible.  We also have a double Grand Prize – since we\’re Noon and Wilder, we figured that it made sense to have two prizes.  I\’ll be making a hand-knit Emerald Keep scarf, and Rachel\’s making a hand-crocheted Emerald Keep scarf.  Two lucky winners will be selected from a drawing at the end of the tour.  How do you enter?  Well, that\’s easy!  Simply leave a comment along the tour and you\’ll be entered in!

    Check back for the rest of the tour, daily between March 8th and Release Day, April 8th.  We\’ll have behind-the-scenes tours, outtakes, peaks at research and hand-drawn maps, and excerpts.  If there\’s something in specific you\’d like to see or read about, tell me in the comments, below.

    We\’re glad you found your way to to us.  Thank you for reading!

  • Archive

    I started this blog years ago on Blogger. Though all the information has been imported to this site, there may have been a loss of formatting. If you\’d prefer to view the original blog, please click here.

     

  • Archive

    I started blogging on Blogger, and although all of the content has been imported to this new site, there may have been a loss of formatting. So, if you\’d like to read the blog in its original form, please click here.