Publishing deal for Heart Blade

Yesterday was one big, smiley, happy day from start to end. It started out with a contract for breakfast and ended with an official press release from my publisher. My book publisher. I’m over the moon that I can finally talk about Heart Blade, the first in my Blade Hunt Chronicles series, to be published by Woodbridge Press.

I finished writing Heart Blade just over a year ago, and Nathan Hystad was one of my lovely beta readers at the time. This year he launched Woodbridge Press, which just came out with a deliciously spooky horror anthology, The Haunting of Lake Manor Hotel. Woodbridge has two more anthologies planned for this year, and oh, hey, I’m in one of them (it has a fabulous line-up of authors which Nathan should be announcing soon).

When Nathan approached me and made an offer for Heart Blade, I was really excited. Yes, Woodbridge is a brand new press, but I have absolute faith in Nathan and his vision, and I’m looking forward to working with him and his team to bring the Blade Hunt world out from the dusty confines of my virtual filing cabinet and into the light of the day.

Blade Hunt is an urban fantasy series that straddles the line between YA and adult. Book 1, Heart Blade, is set right here in my home state of Connecticut, and introduces us to the Chronicles lore and some of the key players of the Court of the Covenant.

Over the next months, as all the necessary pieces of the publishing jigsaw come together – such as edits and copyedits and cover art – I’ll be sharing some of my worldbuilding extras with you all. I’ll also post fun bits and pieces over on bladehunt.tumblr.com.

But for now I’ll let my publisher do the talking.