Signings and Sightings

Upcoming conventions and conferences include:

• NovelTalk Chat, April 9, 2008
• Romantic Times Convention, Pittsburg, PA, April 16-20, 2008
• Malice Domestic, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA, April 25-27, 2008
• World Science Fiction Convention, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, August 6-10, 2008

Coming Soon!

Blackness Tower
a romantic fantasy
Now scheduled for release in March 2008 as a mass-market paperback
Juno Books
ISBN-10: 0809572028
ISBN-13: 978-0809572021

For years Lauren Reay has experienced vivid dreams of a castle keep and a chapel overlooking the sea. Then, while waiting beside her grandfather's deathbed, she sees the exact scene in a calendar photo. It's in Caithness, on the otherworldly coast of northern Scotland, that Lauren finds the restored 16th century Blackness Tower and the ruined 12th century St. Bride's chapel of her dream.

She is armed with no more than a macabre silver-gilt skull watch, a souvenir of her grandfather's mysterious grandmother, only one of Lauren's ancestors who lived at the Tower. Still, Lauren starts asking questions of edgy David Sutherland, who now owns and lives in the Tower, and of scholarly Ewan Calder, the archaeologist who is excavating the cemetery at the chapel. Soon Lauren begins to dream of a Spanish galleon crashing onto cliffs below the castle -- even as one of the men begins dreaming of her.

For Blackness Tower holds strange powers and elemental presences that cannot be rationally explained, but which will change Lauren's life forever.

"Sweep away the illusion of time; compress our threescore years into three minutes...Are we not spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away into air and invisibility? This is no metaphor, it is a simple fact: we start out of Nothingness, take figure and are apparitions...Ghosts! there are a thousand million walking the earth...some half hundred have vanished from it, some half hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once...we not only carry each a future ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!" —Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

- another great romantic fantasy from Juno Books!

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lillian will co-edit The Vorkosigan Companion, a retrospective on Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction work, with Martin H. Greenburg.  It will be published by Baen Books in 2009.

"Now where was I going?? Oh, yeah...I was going to curl up with one of Lillian's books!"