Barbara's Blog

  A very quiet Christmas here, due to a stomach bug (after spending a lovely Christmas Eve with friends) which caused me to cancel Christmas Day family plans. I just couldn't face the drive. So, a day of reading editorial notes on "Death and Hard Cider," Ben January #19 - and when necessary, eating what my husband used to call "non-threatening food." No Christmas candy here. Open Road promo Monday: the whole Darwath Trilogy will be down-priced to $2.99 (digital, US and Canada) - Monday December 27. As with Time of the Dark, though Walls of Air has had a number of very beautiful covers in various editions, I'm still partial to the original Del Rey paperback cover. Although no cover of any book of mine looks the way the scenes look in my head. Now that I've posted grades for the semester, and have 6 weeks of break, maybe I'll be able to get back to painting on Sunday afternoons. I've missed it. Everybody have a lovely and peaceful holiday!

  Open Road - Tuesday, December 21 - Time of the Dark downpriced (digital, US and Canada) to $1.99. (Yes, I know there are more recent covers, but this one has always been my favorite!) In addition, I want to put in a plug for Laura Frankos' Broadway Revival, on Kindle, an entertaining and well researched time-travel tale about (among other things) old Broadway musicals... Class is done for the semester. Can I please get some actual work done now?