Homegoing
Book One of The Tall Ships of Saradena
by Michelle Markey Butler
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Pub Date Dec 01 2014 | Archive Date Oct 31 2017
Description
I had been Princess of Bruster, then Queen of Ferrant. Now I was neither. I built a new life, in a new land. The clerk of my adopted lord. I wanted to copy books and build his library. Quiet and unremarked amongst parchment and ink.
Then the great ship came. It delivered a letter—to a land where almost no one could read. By the time the letter came to my hands, the ship had departed. We had no way to tell them we had never heard of them. They gave us one year, but how could we meet their demands when we did not know what they meant?
War was coming. Unless I could prevent it.
A Note From the Publisher
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Author Bio:
Michelle Markey Butler is a Lecturer in the College of Information Studies and the Honors College at the University of Maryland, where she teaches medieval literature, Tolkien, and contemporary fantasy. Her academic research focuses on literary criticism on the web and medieval to early modern drama. She will someday finish that book about the transition from direct address to soliloquy.
She is the author of SF/F stories, a medieval-inspired historical fantasy, HOMEGOING (Pink Narcissus Press, 2014), and a historical novel about Vikings in 9th century Ireland (with Jess Barry), THE LAST ABBOT OF LINN DUACHAILL (S&H Publishing, 2015).
Unwilling to waste good material, particularly when she worked so hard for it, she blogs about parenting at http://heirraising.wordpress.com. You can read which of her children won the Grossocity Olympics and why.
Pro-tip: Not near meal time.
Advance Praise
Oh, I do love this book. My only problem is that it's the first in a projected series and now I have to wait for the next volume to come out, and I MUST know what happens to our protagonist, Maudlin Bann. A warrior-scholar and former princess and queen, she is quick tempered, brilliant, and strong-willed. And she does not easily forget a grudge. Beautifully crafted, Homegoing takes us through a mystery that can only be solved through intelligence and scholarship, betrayal that leads to deaths and banishment, and a secret long term romance that has the potential to ease the heartache of a former relationship founded not in love, but in political maneuvering and psychological abuse. Maudlin might be a prickly and bad-tempered character, and a little too quick to draw her knives (sometimes she doesn't even remember having drawn them), but she is absolutely adorable. Yes. More, please, Butler!
Marketing Plan
Ongoing--conference appearances, signings, multi-author events, regular social media presence.
Ongoing--conference appearances, signings, multi-author events, regular social media presence.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781939056085 |
| PRICE | $17.00 (USD) |
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