• Interviewing Katherine Longshore, author of GILT!

  May

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  I'd heard about the extraordinary tale of GILT back when MAID OF SECRETS was about to go out in the world, and I'm thrilled to be interviewing Katy Longshore on her debut day! Check us out over at The Lucky 13s.  And hooray for Tudor-set YA!

• Is Your Life Path Written in the Stars?

  Apr

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  Superstition played a big role in the lives of the nobility in Elizabethan England. Over at the Lucky 13s, I'm blogging on Astrology -- one of their woo tools of choice!

• Choose Your Own Adventure

  Mar

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  Blogging today at The Lucky 13s on how life mimics Choose Your Own Adventure stories... it's a little unnerving how true that statement is! What choices will you make at the bottom of the page?

• Life and other unplanned events

  Feb

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  Today I'm blogging over at The Lucky 13s about how despite my best intentions to plan out everything in life... life generally doesn't work as planned. And -- whether our surprises are good or bad -- it's what we do with the new reality we're in that matters!

  

Maid of Secrets

Seventeen-year-old Meg Fellowes is a wry, resourceful thief forced to join an elite group of female spies in Queen Elizabeth’s Court. There she must solve a murder, save the Crown, and resist the one thing that will become her greatest freedom–and her deadliest peril. 

For Meg and her fellow spies are not alone in their pursuit of the murderer who stalks Windsor Castle.

A young, mysterious Spanish courtier, Count Rafe de Martine, appears at every turn in the dark and scandal-filled corridors of the Queen’s summer palace.  And though secrets and danger are Meg’s stock-in-trade,  she’s never bargained on falling in love…