Excerpt… 1320, Cambaluc One day a month later Jaufre went out to the stables and found Johanna seated on a bale of hay next to Edyk the Portuguese, deep in earnest conversation. She looked more animated than she had since the day her mother died. Edyk was holding one of Johanna’s hands in both of…
Excerpt… 1312, Five days from Kashgar JOHANNA HAD GRADUATED to her own camel. Her father, Wu Li, had told her that if she managed to keep her seat from the beginning of Kuche to the city of Kashgar that he would let her off the leading string for the journey home. Shu Ming’s protest had…
Read more All three of them stared at the desiccated limb that her mount’s hoof had exposed.
Excerpt… “And Shu Ming?” Bayan’s face lightened. “Alive. The doctors say she has suffered no harm. No physical harm.” Bayan nodded at the open door of his study, and Wu Hai went through into the garden, where once again the plum trees were in bloom. Shu Ming sat with her back to one of the…
Excerpt… 1292, Cambulac “He is leaving this life,” Bayan said, his expression somber, “and he knows it. While he lives, you are safe here in Everything Under the Heavens. When he dies…” It was nothing Marco had not known before he had requested this audience. Many times over the past several years, ever since the…
Read more “But he holds my wife and my daughter hostage against my return!”
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, here’s a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Between Two Continents with Dana Stabenow From James Joyce’s Dublin to Bram Stoker’s Transylvania, readers everywhere have traveled to regions far and wide. All from the comforts of their…
In honor of the June 1st publication of the Silk and Song trade paperback edition, here’s the December 2017 interview the wonderful Sharon Kay Penman did for Silk and Song on her blog. I am delighted to welcome one of my favorite writers to my blog. My Facebook friends and readers know how much I…
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Dana Stabenow, New York Times bestselling author and writer of the popular Kate Shugak series, has recently launched her latest novel Silk and Song. She’s here today talking about research and inspiration.…
In honor of the June 1st publication of Silk and Song in trade paperback, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour in January. Silk and Song is the story of Marco Polo’s granddaughter, Johanna, traveling the Silk Road west from China to England during the years of 1322-1327, picking up strays and making…
Read more Think Route 66, with camels instead of a Corvette.
In honor of the June 1st publication of the trade paperback edition of Silk and Song, a post from the Silk and Song blog tour from December 2017. I read The Adventures of Marco Polo and by his own account he loved the ladies. He was all over eastern Asia for twenty years in service to…
Read more Silk and Song is the story of one of Marco Polo’s grandchildren…
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your drooling pleasure…the Head of Zeus paperback edition of Silk and Song! Accompanied by a note from Himself: If only.
