More Archangel Chronicles! And Other Things!

[misslj_author]

It's been a while since I've posted here and I can only say that life has been extremely busy with one thing or another. Suffice to say that when I got a certain email from a certain publisher yesterday, there may have been the sit-down version of the happy dance going on in my home.

And what did the email entail? Well. See this awesome art below? (Click to see full size.)




These are my Archangels, all ten of them, as drawn and inked by the incredibly talented Danielle Ellison of Mad Robot. And they have three more novels that have been contracted by Dreamspinner Press.


I am so happy, I can't even. These three forthcoming books pick up after the end of book three, but it's not essential to have read the first three novels to follow these new ones. So what's going to happen in these three? Well, the Holy Grail has gone missing and Bad Things start to happen. It's up to the Archangels and their allies to fix things up. There are new characters and old, and the continuing relationship between Gabriel and Michael as they work through this new challenge presented them. The books are called, in order:

The Wind-Up Forest
The Crystal Lake
The Bone Cup.

In other publishing news, City of Jade is out now and has already recieved some really wonderful reviews. It's available here--ebook and paperback, if you're curious. Ice, my novella with Less Than Three Press goes into serial in October, and here's the info for that. Just before that starts, Capsicum Head, my story in the Rocking Hard rock and roll serial anthologies goes live, and more info is here if you want to sign up for that and the other stories in the collection.


Also, dear New Zealand, you make the BEST sour apple soda I have ever had. Please make it available in more shops in Australia, like, supermarkets, yes that would be awesome. Macs Sour Green Apple is *amazing.* Finally, my rosemary plant has begun to flower and it's so pretty. I had no idea that rosemary flowers were so lovely. I've always had a black thumb and I think I've graduated to a grey-green thumb, as only half my plants die now! It's a step up from all of them, right? Right! :D So here is my pretty rosemary flower to end this update of writing stuff.

Comments

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

That's amazing. Congrats.

(and now I want sour apple soda...)

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

OMG, it's SO good, I can't even. I love it.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

I don't even like pop but I would try that. Sounds so good

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

It really is. I find that apple sodas are generally quite bland but this is SO tasty.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

I can get one out of Canada here but it wasn't that good. Now someone has told me there is a maple bacon soda locally that I have to go find

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

Maple bacon? I can't even imagine what that would be like as a soda.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

I can't either but I'm willing to try it (and Sonic's peanut butter bacon milk shake...and as I say this I'm beginning to wonder about my sanity)

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Yay for more books. And those pictures are brilliant.

Rosemary flowers are very pretty. Mine seems to have been flowering all winter.

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

She did such a great job, I'm thrilled. Now it's the banner on my website.

They really are. What happens after they flower?

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Not much. The flowers dry up and you get a dried little stalky thing on the end of your rosemary branch. If you pinch off the end (and you can do this any time) it will sprout more branches from further down and grow more bushy rather than in a few long spikes.

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's good to know. I'll do that. Thank you!

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Go you!

[misslj-author.livejournal.com]

Thank you!