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This page con­tains infor­ma­tion on future releases, not works-in-progress. Sta­tus updates regard­ing release dates, cover art, etc., will be posted as reg­u­lar blog entries.





THE GLASS MINSTREL (Sep­tem­ber 2010)

Christ­mas in mid-19th cen­tury Bavaria finds two griev­ing fathers cop­ing with the loss of their sons, who were also lovers. Con­fused and angered by what they believe to be their boys’ betrayal, one with­draws from the peo­ple who love him, and the other lashes out. At the same time, a young boy, bur­dened with his own secret, falls in love with a trav­el­ing Eng­lish­man. All three strug­gle to rec­on­cile their past with the present and future. Each hopes to under­stand his own heart. Each looks for solace in sit­u­a­tions that none can con­trol. And all are bound to each other by one unique glass ornament.

To be released by Cheyenne Pub­lish­ing. Book descrip­tion is tem­po­rary and sub­ject to change.





DESMOND AND GARRICK (BOOK ONE) (TBA)

The story takes place dur­ing the Regency (1815), just a few months after Napoleon’s defeat at Water­loo. It recounts the mis­ad­ven­tures of Gar­rick Mor­timer, scholar extra­or­di­naire and an under­em­ployed and starv­ing genius, as he agrees to take up the unusual posi­tion of tutor­ing Desmond Hath­away, the youngest son of a vam­pire fam­ily liv­ing in York­shire. Desmond, who’s just suf­fered heart­break caused by another boy’s cal­lous treat­ment of him in school, rebels against Garrick’s attempts at edu­cat­ing him and does every­thing he could to chase Gar­rick away, which proves to be a greater chal­lenge than he first believed. When his older brother returns from Italy for a visit, bring­ing with him a small group of tal­ent­less and self-absorbed poets, Desmond’s (and, by exten­sion, Garrick’s) world turns upside-down when he meets Leigh Blaise Sher­bourne, a vam­pire poet who seems to detest Desmond and also har­bors secrets regard­ing his past. Throw into the mix a des­per­ate mother’s plea for grand­chil­dren, a family-owned tor­ture cham­ber, a curi­ous cottage-abbey-and-quarter-castle, and a grumpy fam­ily magi­cian, Gar­rick finds that life in the Hath­away house­hold is a great deal more than he bar­gained for.

Desmond and Gar­rick is a satire, a tongue-in-cheek jab at vam­pire romances as well as Regency romance clichés. Inspired by the rise of early 19th cen­tury Roman­ti­cism and the irrev­er­ent and gothic 20th cen­tury humor of The Addams Fam­ily, the series pokes fun at exces­sively hand­some and brood­ing vam­pires, ego­tis­ti­cal artists, and his­tor­i­cal bodice rip­per conventions.

Book descrip­tion is tem­po­rary and sub­ject to change.