I’m really pleased that Anchor Canada is publishing a new edition of my novel, Muse, on May 27, 2014, only nine months after the original. Thanks, Random House, for the vote of confidence in my novel! The new edition is a smaller paperback, so will cost less, and they’ve given the book an attractive new look with a redesigned cover. I’ve been busy adding support material to my website and now have nine illustrated backstory essays for Muse. I’ve also created a new YouTube video about the Pope’s palace in Avignon.
In this day of declining print coverage for books, it’s great to see two tributes in print to Muse, by Lorrie Miller in Room Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 93-94 and by Linda Rogers in The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 19, Winter/Spring 2014, p. 53. I’m happy to announce that the group Imprinted Lives on Goodreads has chosen Muse for their June 2014 discussion and welcomes new members who would like to join in. If you click on the link, you’ll see that they had an excellent conversation about Conceit a while ago, so I think they will get into some interesting territory.
More information about the various Random House/Doubleday editions, including the e-book, can be found here. There’s also an Italian edition L’amante del Papa (with a sexy trailer) and a French edition is on the way from Éditions Hurtubise, with publication estimated for February 2015.