First Knight

I’m Connie Brockway. If you are a Historical Romance reader, you may have read one of my 20-plus books. I know. I’ve been quiet for quite a while. I’d like to claim I was lying on a beach, twirling a paper umbrella in a piña colada while letting the well refill. But the truth is the well was never dry, it just tapped into a different source. I’ve been writing the whole time, you see, but from a different place.

Tomorrow, June 9, the first “new thing” comes out of it. It is a Kickstarter for a graphic novel anthology called Parallel Truths, a collection of multi-genre stories from twelve writers, including Andy Weir, Eloisa James, Tony Lee, and nine others. My contribution is a medieval love story called First Knight, illustrated by Álvaro Sarraseca, who draws the way I hope I write.

He survived the Crusades. Now he has to survive his wife.

→ Parallel Truths on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/authorventuresllc/parallel-truths-a-multi-genre-graphic-novel-anthology?ref=e51nuo

If the campaign is the kind of thing you back, you back it. If it isn’t, no harm done.

And now the other new things , in shorthand.

An idea gleaned from a local headline twenty years ago would NOT leave me alone. It morphed into a historical mystery, now finished and waiting to take flight. I’ve set Fallen Ladies in 1898 New York, not drawing-room New York City, but Inwood: a rural enclave uneasily balanced between the modern and the past. In it, a fallen society widow finds a body. More about that as the wheels of publication turn.

There is also a Regency novella series called Fetching Love coming in April 2027, written with my longtime friend Eloisa James. Four stories, one Kickstarter, a generous portion supporting Bond Between rescue.

And there is my greyhound(ish) Roo, descended from a noble line of greyhounds and German shepherds, and a less noble line of pit bulls. He weighs 85 pounds and is afraid of leaves. You’ll meet him a lot.

I told you I’d been busy. Pull up a chair.