Northlight release!
Feb. 14th, 2011 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deborahjrossMy second published novel Northlight is finally available again, now as a multi-format ebook from Book View Cafe. It includes a new introduction, "the story behind the story."
It was amazing to work on this book again, preparing it for epublication, and realize how much of my heart is still in it. Yes, it's got glorious horses and dramatic fight scenes (using techniques I learned in my years of kung fu -- the intro also talks about my teacher, Jimmy H. Woo). It's also got the kind of tortured-soul-healing and coming-of-age stuff I love. Also shades of what it was like growing up in the shadow of a charismatic parent, how you find your own place in life. A journey into the wilderness of the spirit as well as the landscape. And the cover is a very cool pic of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dancinghorse's lovely mare, "Tia" photographed by our own tcastleb.
You can read the first chapter on the BVC site. I'd love to hear what you think.
Scaling the final hill was like climbing into a sea of ice. Up and up we went, one shivering, dogged step after another, woman and mare. My fingers had gone numb, laced in her mane, and I could no longer tell if she pulled me along or the other way round. I envied her, with no thought but to keep going.
As we neared the crest, I squinted up at the sky, as white and airless as if some vengeful god had sucked it dry. I reminded myself there were no gods here in Laurea, vengeful or otherwise.
A Kindle edition will be forthcoming, after I get back from Radcon, where I am Writer GoH. (I am informed that you can download the .mobi format on your Kindle reader, but don't know how to do that myself. Maybe that makes sense to you?)
It was amazing to work on this book again, preparing it for epublication, and realize how much of my heart is still in it. Yes, it's got glorious horses and dramatic fight scenes (using techniques I learned in my years of kung fu -- the intro also talks about my teacher, Jimmy H. Woo). It's also got the kind of tortured-soul-healing and coming-of-age stuff I love. Also shades of what it was like growing up in the shadow of a charismatic parent, how you find your own place in life. A journey into the wilderness of the spirit as well as the landscape. And the cover is a very cool pic of
dancinghorse's lovely mare, "Tia" photographed by our own tcastleb.You can read the first chapter on the BVC site. I'd love to hear what you think.
Scaling the final hill was like climbing into a sea of ice. Up and up we went, one shivering, dogged step after another, woman and mare. My fingers had gone numb, laced in her mane, and I could no longer tell if she pulled me along or the other way round. I envied her, with no thought but to keep going.
As we neared the crest, I squinted up at the sky, as white and airless as if some vengeful god had sucked it dry. I reminded myself there were no gods here in Laurea, vengeful or otherwise.
A Kindle edition will be forthcoming, after I get back from Radcon, where I am Writer GoH. (I am informed that you can download the .mobi format on your Kindle reader, but don't know how to do that myself. Maybe that makes sense to you?)
