After a departure from my previous webhost, I migrated here.  Just the books are posted for now, but I hope to add more info and pics to the site as we go along.

I am planning to begin a new book, but undecided about which world.  I have an idea for a "romantasy" trilogy with much romance involved in the plot as well as adventures.  I have always featured some romance, of course, as in the Sword-Dancer books, but romantasy as a genre is a little more graphic.  I'll probably do it under a pseudonym so as not to confuse my regular fantasy readers.  I would not keep it secret from fans, but am aware that some people like more of something while others don't.

The other possibility is to write a ninth Sword-Dancer book.  I just love writing in the world and enjoy Tiger's and Del's deep conversations about the weight of the world, plus their banter.  It is great fun putting myself in their heads.

I have been looking back at my bibliography of late.  Pulled out the rough drafts of my earliest work--including one draft that dates back to 1981, though I actually began the book when I was 18.  It was turned down a few times by publishers when I submitted it--the dreaded rejection slips!--but once Shapechangers was purchased by DAW at the end of 1982, my agent was able to then make sales of two of my early works.  Apparently once an editor buys a manuscript, others that were originally turned down become more interesting.

You know, I joke about being a 15-year "overnight success," but all of that time was spent with me writing and marketing books.  At 14 I wrote a typical girl-and-horse young adult book.  Went nowhere.  At 16 I wrote a somewhat more mature girl-and horse novel.  Also went nowhere.  Then I moved on to Lonnie, a Western, the third one that one went nowhere until my agent sold it in 1983, I believe.  A fourth one was Smoketree, what they used to call "romantic suspense," like Mary Stewart's novels.  No home for it until after Shapechangers was sold.

My fifth attempt at trying to write something that I felt had a legitimate shot at being purchased by an editor was my first fantasy.  I'd been reading it for decades, but just wasn't sure I could do it justice.  But that was Shapechangers, Vol. 1 in what became the Chronicles of the Cheysuli.  And then I added another series with the Sword-Dancer books, followed by Karavans and the urban fantasy, Life and Limb.  In the historical genre, I wrote two Robin Hood novels, and a retelling of the real Massacre of Glencoe and a true Romeo & Juliet story.

Altogether it's been 43 years, 29 novels and 1 short story collection, with more to come!  I hope you will stay with me!