Current Projects

I'm writing a novel that retells the "Tristan and Isolde" story, a powerful semi-Arthurian story that resounds with old Celtic legends. It's full of adultery and betrayal, nothing like the recent Hollywood movie.

My other current project is "Yurt, the Next Generation." I have finished a book entitled The Starlight Raven (the title isn't really YTNG!), which focuses on Antonia. The book takes place a few years after Apocalypse, when she is a teenager. At present my agent is involved in selling it to a publisher. It's "YA" (young adult), meaning it's aimed at a teen readership, but I think all my longtime Yurt fans will enjoy it too (and I know I have plenty of teen readers anyway). A tiny sneak preview is below. Keep watching my web page, and I'll put up publication information as soon as I have it.

PART ONE - WITCHES

Of course I knew my mother was a witch.

She never needed a match to light the fire. She knew immediately if someone new had come to town, even if she had spent the entire day at home, sewing. Sometimes in the evening, after she had finished tailoring a new ballgown for the mayor's daughter or embroidering a new altar-cloth for the church, women would knock quietly on our door, giving quick glances up and down the cobbled street, and Mother would tell them if they were going to have a baby boy or a girl.

But I had no intention of living an uneventful life as a small-town witch. I was going to study to be a real wizard.

That would be easy, I thought. My father was head of the wizards' school in the great City, a much more interesting place than our little town of Caelrhon. He'd said himself that I could come and study there when I became fourteen, the first girl the wizards' school had ever admitted. Already I knew how to turn someone into a frog, something even my mother couldn't do.

But on my fourteenth birthday it all became much less easy....

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