My new books

After I went through that blogging frenzy on Friday, I reflected that I was missing a good bet where these blogs are concerned. I should be using them to promote my books, so here I am. Since September, when last I posted here, I moved to a new publisher. It opened on January 31st with three new releases, a child's book, a young adult Scifi novel (ages 13-17), and an adult erotic romance. The young adult book is mine, Takuhi's Dream, and it is particularly close to my heart because it is the first novel I actually finished. The three stories I published with Silk's Vault came years after Takuhi's Dream, a couple decades, really. I started it in 1974, and finished it in 1982, a few weeks after my daughter, now 26, was born. When I heard that my favorite editor, Peggy, aka the Dragonlady, was starting a new publishing house, FireDrakes Weyr, I submitted Takuhi's Dream to her. She liked it, and had several suggestions for me. She turned me over to another editor, and we worked together to get it up to speed. We turned it into a Young Adult book. Diane Taylor, Stacy Dawn and I were on a web radio show the Sunday before.

Takuhi's Dream is about a young woman, who is a kulturologist, a kind of ethnographer, who is being pursued around the galaxy by a monster she cannot face, and two men, one of whom means her harm, and the other one--well, you'll just have to download the story and find out.
Go to http://www.firedrakesweyr.com/ and do a search on me, Rita Trevalyan. Takuhi's Dream will come up. There is an excerpt from the book and everything. Sure, it's a young adult book, and you're 35 with teenagers of your own, but hey, look at all the adults who are buying the Harry Potter books and reading them, and they were written for children.

It might still be with the new releases. If you wait more than a week, on March 1st there will be
a new release by me, Roman Rhapsody. It is the story of a wealthy, happily married forty-two year old woman who nevertheless is mired in a sea of ennui, and is having dreams of disturbingly erotic content about a relationship between a Roman matron and a gladiator. Can she integrate those dreams with her real life? You'll have to read the story to find out.

I guess Peggy is called the Dragonlady because she is such a fierce advocate for the reader's right to read a story that is the best an author can turn out. It all depends how you look at dragons. Sure, they're fierce, but they are also loyal and passionate. Peggy is a sweetheart, really. She knows how to coddle an author and in the same breath crack the whip so as to inspire the author to turn out her best work. I just know that when I meet her I'm going to want to give her a big hug.