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by | August 12, 2014 · 10:26 am

Serpent on a Cross – Cover Reveal


My debut novel – Serpent on a Cross – is being re-released by Booktrope (http://booktrope.com/) later this month! I’m sooo excited! This time it will be available in PRINT (Trade Softcover) as well as eBook! Squweeee!!! I decided not to use a pseudonym this time around, because once I finish writing the sequel and my books make it onto bookstore shelves (such as my local Barnes & Noble), my own last name will earn me a place on the Fantasy/Sci-Fi shelves right next to Neil Gaiman!!! THAT, ladies and gents, is the place to be for any fantasy writer worth her salt. 😉

So. In addition to a new publisher, the book has a brand new first chapter (the previous first chapter wasn’t replaced, it was simply merged into the second chapter), and other extended scenes. There’s also A NEW COVER!! I’m sooo excited about this new cover as well! The talented Loretta Matson over at Booktrope was kind enough to take on the concepts – both visual and oral – already drawn up and create something new and fresh that somehow encompassed everything I wanted in a cover for the rebirth of my Medieval/Fantasy novel. And because I can only have one cover, she made the runner up into an “emblem” for one of the characters. If you’ve already read the book, you’ll recognize right away the emblem and who it was created for. If you haven’t, then I’d love to have you purchase a copy upon its availability. 🙂 I’ll reveal the emblem tomorrow.

Now for the COVER REVEAL!

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Isn’t it beauteous?! I could (and have!) gazed at it – enthralled – for hours! Me wants it! I CANNOT WAIT to hold this book in my grabby little hands!! 🙂 🙂

 

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by | February 4, 2011 · 2:35 pm

“The Book of Night Women” Review


Right after the release of Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women (Penguin Group, Feb. 2009), I wrote a review under the pen name jewhl, on Barnes & Noble.com. It’s been named “Most Helpful Review” at B&N.com. 🙂

Here’s the link and the review:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Book-of-Night-Women/Marlon-James/e/9781594488573/?itm=3&USRI=marlon+james#TABS

If you are looking for an easy read and mindless entertainment, do not pick up this book. If, however, you are looking for something off-beat, poetic and substantial, this is a book for you. James absolutely delivers in his “The Book of Night Women.” The Jamaican dialect is lyrical – and, for anyone unfamiliar with this musical form of the English language – demands attention and concentration. Prosaic, and at the same time poetic, James’ novel focuses a microscope on the life of Lilith, a mulatto girl with green eyes born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the 18th century. The frequent slave revolts that were an almost perpetual way of life for slave and master provide a backdrop to this tale, as do the ever-present superstitions brought from Africa that permeated life on the plantations. This is a story of despair, sorrow, hope and triumph. Highly recommended!

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