Saludos!
I am writing this in frigid weather, while I wait for a frozen pipe to thaw. I pray it hasn’t split from the ice. I am stressing on the mess that would make. On the other hand my heat is still working, and my mother always said to count your blessings. Besides, with single digit temperatures out there, what better opportunity to stay warm and to jot a note to friends?
I have some news to report. Los Pecados del Señor Easterbrook will be released on January 27, 2009. This is Christian’s story, and readers have been writing to me about him ever since he first appeared as a secondary character in Las Reglas de Seducción. He is one of those men, if you know what I mean. Reviews are beginning to come in, both formal (professional reviewers) and informal (early readers). I hope that their assessment—that I did well by Christian—will be yours too.
Los Pecados del Señor Easterbrook is the fourth and last book in my Rothwell brothers series. Como siempre, all the books can be read separately.
This novel also includes my first ever Epilogue. I know some readers love them, but when a series is unfolding I prefer to show that later experience in the later books. With this final book, sin embargo, I really felt it needed this Epilogue. Due to the story, I wanted to display these two characters, and the others from the series, a bit later in time. It also allowed me to tie up a couple of loose ends in the series, regarding some characters who did not play big roles in the plots but whose presence threaded through all the books.
I am hard at work on the next series. Currently I envision four books, with four connected but unrelated women on one side, and four connected but unrelated men on the other. The men are all aristocrats and the women come from a variety of backgrounds and all have ambiguous respectability and, in some cases, even ambiguous identities. I will share more details later, after I get deeper into the first book.
The first of these books, as yet untitled, is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 2010. Sí, a whole year away. That delay is the result of another bit of news. I have changed publishers for the first time in my career. That usually adds a few months to the publishing schedule for the first book in the new arrangement. Sin embargo, I will again be working with the editor who first “discovered” me, so this change will not be as stressful as I can imagine it might be.
I have finally started blogging!! I was invited to join a group blog—La Diosa Blogs—comprised of writers I admire and know. I will have a few blogs a month, which will not interfere with my writing. So come visit us, and if you like what you see, set up the RSS feed. There is also a forum and other activities.We don’t just talk writing. We gab about whatever strikes our fancy.
I am in the middle of a video for Los Pecados del Señor Easterbrook. Some readers love book videos, and some hate ’em. I enjoy making them so I do them for fun. The hardest part continues to be finding the “face” for the hero, and Easterbrook was a particular challenge. Thanks to the wonders of an expert in Photoshopping, I have a face to die for. Seriously. So keep checking back for when it is done and I upload it on the home page.
I want to sign off now with a personal thought. No one is untouched by this economy’s problems, and I know that some of you are very badly affected. My best thoughts are with you. I pray that the new year brings better things for everyone down the road.
Madeline
Queridos amigos:,
It has been an eventful summer for me and I have a lot of news to share.
Secrets of Surrender, my June ‘08 book, was a NYTimes bestseller on their main, published list. This was a career first for me. I have had books on their extended list before, but not the one with the top slots that is actually printed in the newspaper.
Secrets also was in the top, published 50 of the USA Today bestseller list, and on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list. I thank each one of you who took a chance on my story and helped me to achieve these wonderful milestones!
Then in July, Lecciones sobre Berlín won the RITA for best historical romance of 2007. The award was announced at the annual convention of the Romance Writers of America. The conference was in San Francisco this year and I was delighted to meet some of you at the Literacy Signing.
I also had a chance to meet some readers at the Romantic Times conference in Pittsburgh last April. I was impressed by the wide geographic range represented by the fans. I met readers from as far away as Australia and Thailand.
Of course I also spent the summer writing! The results are coming on January 27, 2009. That is when Los Pecados del Señor Easterbrook se dará a conocer.
This is Christian’s story. He is the eldest of the Rothwell brothers who have anchored my current series. Readers have been writing to me about him since the first book, Las Reglas de Seducción, was published.
La “Sins” in the title refer to his, but also to those of his father, and the dark legacy from their parents that has shadowed the Rothwell brothers throughout the series. I hope that you will think I have done well by Christian, who is one of the most distinct and vivid male characters that I have had to grapple with. I say “grapple” because he truly wanted to take over a couple of the earlier books and I had to keep him in line until it was time for his story.
True to those previous appearances, in this novel he is mysterious, imperious, arrogant, but also at times endearingly thoughtful. Readers will also learn about the reasons for his somewhat eccentric habits, and the scars and vulnerabilities buried deeply beneath his confidence and authority. No, he is not mad, or even half so, as some in society whisper! As always with my books, you do not have to read the series in order.
On the personal side of life, the summer was also busy. Our family took a very relaxing cruise, visiting some Caribbean ports. I pretty much just rotted and came back rested and ready to work. My siblings and I also had the first of what will be regular reunions. I organized it and chose Williamsburg because there are a great variety of activities in the area. We could pursue our own interests by day and gather together in the evening. If anyone knows of other places like that—where you can keep the history/museum people happy as well as the shoppers or sports-oriented folks—please email me so I can put it in the “potential reunion site” pool.
On a very personal note, I send my best thoughts to all of you. As I write this we are in economically frightening times and I know that many of you are being affected, some severely so. I find myself seeking escape in a good book more often recently. I look forward to putting the crazy real world on “hold” for a few hours, and visiting one where someone seems to be in control!
Madeline Hunter
Saludos, queridos lectores!
Estoy escribiendo esto en abril 1. Nadie ha jugado ningún chistes sobre mí todavía. Si alguien lo hace no me importa porque la temperatura finalmente ha superado 60 y eso me pone de un humor maravilloso. He pasado la congelación de marzo, ya sea aquí en casa o cuando viajo. Aquellos de ustedes en los climas del sur no tienen este problema, pero los norteños pensamos invierno se debe hacer ahora, Muchas gracias, y me siento feliz de finalmente abrir mis ventanas.
Fue un invierno duro en algunos aspectos, no sólo con el clima. Mi madre falleció en diciembre 26. Había estado enfermo durante mucho tiempo, y por no ayunar durante sus últimos meses. Tuve la oportunidad de pasar mucho tiempo con ella, para el que yo estaba agradecido, pero es una de las razones de este sitio no se ha actualizado mucho desde la caída. Su nombre era Anna, y el libro dedicado a ella, El Protector, acaba de ser reeditado este mes, que es un buen homenaje involuntario.
La heroína en El Protector También se llama Anna, y en su fuerza e independencia que ella encarnaba no ficción personaje de mi Anna. Morvan, el héroe, era uno de esos personajes que los lectores descubran en otro libro y me escribieron acerca de inmediato, querer su historia. Él fue mi primer héroe y El Protector, en una forma anterior, era mi primer manuscrito romanticismo. Todavía estoy enamorada de él. (La historia sobre cómo El Protector fue escrito, y la forma en que fue publicado después de los libros escritos después, se pueden encontrar en mi primera carta nunca, disponible en los archivos de esta página.)
El otro es reedición Señor de las Mil Noches. Este es mi escocés el romance medieval, situado en la zona fronteriza y que gira alrededor de una finca impugnada. El héroe es Ian, un chico malo que enmascara una herida interna profunda, que encuentra propósito y dirección y la redención a través de su protección de la encantadora Reyna.
Aparte de tratar con “la vida pasa” He estado escribiendo estos últimos meses. Mi próximo libro, Secrets of Surrender, se dará a conocer en mayo 20. Es el tercer libro de la serie Rothwell, y es la historia de Roselyn Longworth.
Roselyn era la prima de Alexia en Reglas de Seducción, quien culpó Hayden Rothwell de la ruina de su familia. En Secrets of Surrender que ha aprendido la verdad acerca de ese episodio lo siento, y ese hilo encuentra su resolución final. Ella también se ha embarcado en una aventura amorosa desastrosa que alterará el curso de su vida. Un extracto es de hasta, y en ella se encontrará con Kyle Bradwell, el hombre hecho a sí mismo que ayuda a Roselyn redescubrir a sí misma y su valor real,. Se trata de un matrimonio de conveniencia historia con un toque, y los conflictos tanto obvias y secretos.
Actualmente estoy escribiendo el cuarto y (probablemente) último libro de la serie. Sí, es el libro de Christian! Los lectores han escrito a mí sobre el marqués inusual y convincente de Easterbrook ya conocerlo primero. Ha sido un personaje secundario importante en cada historia, y ahora que está recibiendo su propia. El título provisional ha sido elegido: Los Pecados del Señor Easterbrook. Puedo dar una pista a los lectores de libros-antes Reglas de Seducción, Alexia observa que parece Easterbrook es “esperando algo.” Como se abre Sins, los extremos de espera.
Como siempre, los libros de mi serie pueden leerse fuera de orden. Repartiera secretos para libros anteriores cuando escribo las posteriores. Eso puede ser difícil, pero creo que lo logró en Secrets of Surrender. Aquellos de ustedes que leen la serie con el fin entenderán lo que quiero decir si lo lee.
Espero que la temporada de renovación tiene sólo cosas buenas para usted. Gracias por visitar!
Madeline Hunter
