I like mail. They say you can learn a lot about an author by their books. If nothing else, mine reveal a fondness for the post office. For example, one of the main characters in my Threshold Series (published as Christa Kinde) is a mailman, and the three Byways brothers are sons of Liberty’s postmaster. Continue reading CHIT-CHAT: My Post Office Box
The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff is another library find. I spotted the first volume on the shelves in our YA section and picked it up for a closer look at the art. Six pages into the story—I’m not kidding, it only took six pages— Continue reading #amreading: The Hound of Rowan
The latest batch of books went out to the winners of the GoodReads giveaways for Byways Book #8, #9, and #10. Continue reading BYWAYS: Winners!
Galleries of Stone. All three books in my fantasy trilogy have giveaways underway on GoodReads. Are you a friend or follower? You should get in there and follow all your favorite authors! GoodReads is amazing about letting you know when they have a new book out … when they have titles on sale … or when there’s a giveaway for one of the titles sitting on your To Read List.
Let’s take a look behind another header on the Byways Books! Say, have you noticed the change that occurs from book to book depending on which brother’s adventure is featured? My illustrator and I worked out that little detail (among others) even before the first book in the series released. Continue reading BYWAYS: Behind the Header
You listen to me, sprat. The twelve mountains are miraculous places, and their Keepers are venerable souls at the pinnacle of their craft. The acclaim of every master sculptor reaches to the farthest corner of the four continents!”
—MEADOWSWEET by C. J. Milbrandt
Good Backup. Cover illustrations are all-important when it comes to digital books (and Hannah Christenson does an amazing job with the Byways series). But print editions need that little extra: back covers. Take a look at the details we included on the flip side of every Byways Book. Continue reading BYWAYS: Back Covers
This is a slender volume I picked up at the library. Two chapters in, I knew I was in kindred spirit territory and ordered my own copy. A Nearer Moon by Melanie Crowder is Continue reading #amreading: A Nearer Moon
I’m continuing a series of posts that offer a peek behind the Byways header. On a related note, do you recognize the four creatures it features? From top left, circling clockwise, they are Continue reading BYWAYS: Behind the Header
From the author of The Twistrose Key. I love finding out that an author who wrote a story I enjoyed has a new book coming out. Since Tone Almhiell charmed me with her world-building in The Twistrose Key, I pre-ordered her latest middlegrade adventure, which is due to release in August 2016. Can’t wait to be carried back to the world of Sylver!
