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Marie did a lovely job on your new website, DeAnna. Looking forward to your new book in August.
DeAnna: Love your new website. . .classy!
I loved your triology and I still have the books as they are a favorite. Looking forward to any new books. Wish I could read the mysteries. Thanks, Amy
Great Website!
I love your Chastelayne Trilogy, read them for the nth time. Been waiting for the book “A Dinner of Herbs” since I read the excerpt.
DeAnna, just read your blog and was so impressed. You are a woman of many talents. I am waiting for Letters in the Attic. I have not read your Chastelayne Trilogy as I am more a mystery fan. Good luck for all your talents.
I love your books!! I’ve been coming across quite a few of your interviews on other blogs lately. I was wondering if there might be anyway to recieve a copy of your book, “Letters In The Attic” to read and review for my blog?
Thanks for considering. Have a wonderful day.
~Steph
Great web site. I love historical fiction!
Cheryl Pierson says:
I love your books. They are very interesting to read. I plan to
buy the whole collection.
Enjoyed your website and blog. I love CATS, CATS, CATS. I haven’t read any of your books, but they sound interesting, especially Letters in the Attic.
I would like to be notified when A Dinner of Herbs is available. Thanks.
desertrose5173 at gmail dot com
What wonderful books! Glad to get to know you better, Deanna.
My neice would just love your book A Dinner of Herbs. Please let me know when it is available. She’s had me searching the internet for it. So glad I found your site! Her name is Jennifer, she is a junior in college and she loves to read!
Thanks for signing my guestbook, Christine.
At this point, I don’t have any publication information for A Dinner of Herbs, but my agent is working on it.
I will certainly let you and everyone know when it’s scheduled to be on the shelf.
Tell your niece I said hi!
My friend put your books into my life and I am so glad I listened to her. We expand our knowledge of good books by trusting our friends. If I had to rely on what I see in the big-box stores I’d be starving… Keep up the good work.
Bless you and thank you for reading.
I have not read any of your books but I am really interested in your book Letters in the Attic. I love reading and came upon your website and I will have to check out your books now. You know when you stumble upon authors like this thats a good thing im always looking for new authors to read besides the ones I read normally. Thanks so much and God Bless
I stumbled across your name on the Denton Quilting Guild website. I’ve never read one of your books, but they look interesting, and I plan to read one soon.
do u have a newsletter u email out
Hi, Karen!
I don’t currently have a newsletter, but I hope to sometime in the future.
For now, anything newsworthy will be on my blog or on the home page of my website.
Thanks for visiting!
I love your site. I was looking to buy your book Letters In the Attic. How would I go about that?
Letters in the Attic is available exclusively from Annie’s Attic Mysteries at http://www.anniesmysteries.com/. Their website is set up for a subscription to the series, but if you’d like to buy just Letters in the Attic, you can contact Customer Service at (800) 282-6643 (8 a.m. – 7 p.m. [CST] Mon. – Fri.) or e-mail them at customer_service@anniesmysteries.com.
If for any reason they are unable to help you, please e-mail me at MissWrite@sbcglobal.net, and I will get more information for you.
Your Chastelayne Trilogy are among my absolute favorite books- I have read them countless times… I am eagerly awaiting your book A Dinner of Herbs- please let me know as soon as it is available!!!
I’m so glad you like the books. I hope to have news on A Dinner of Herbs sometime soon, but that’s out of my hands right now.
Praying.
I am a newcomer to ACFW and am out getting to know who is out there. I like your work.
Thank you. I appreciate you coming to visit.
I just recently bought the first 2 books in your Chastelayne Trilogy on Kindle, I will read them when I have the time!
I am a History student and although it is the Holidays I am busy writing articles for the History Society Blog of my University. I am based during term time in Winchester an glorious old town in England, whose History covers every period from Roman to Modern. Ih has a Cathedral, 2 Castles, and a Pilgrims Hospital, as well as lots of Historic Houses, as well once having been Alfred the Great’s capital!
As you notice I love History, as do my parents, brother, Grandmother and several other members of the extended family. I like to read non-fiction but also novels too. I explored your blog for the first time recently, and noticed with some satisfation that you said you liked Medieval English History and English writers. I was beginning to feel unloved.
I should have mentioned earlier the Medieval period is my favourite too, I know most about English History but I am starting to branch out the the rest of Europe. I retain a special interest in the Saxons and the later Plantagenets.
I hope you enjoy the books, Anna. But be aware that they are set in a kingdom I made up. Yes, it’s based on medieval England, which I do love, but I didn’t want to be confined by actual history when trying to tell these particular stories. There are some differences.
Interestingly enough, my 1930s mysteries are set in a fictional town that’s just a little south of Winchester, so I will be making sure I’m as accurate as possible about Winchester itself and the environs, and I will make my fictional place fit in. I have visited Winchester a couple of times, and it’s a lovely place, particularly the cathedral.
I, too, have a lot of interest in the later Plantagenets. Henry V is my favorite, and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V plays influenced the hero in my books. Two of his brothers are named for Henry V’s brothers, Tom and John. The third would have been, too, but I just couldn’t go with Humphrey.
I know they’re set in a fictional place and the genre of Fantasy and so are not historically accurate. That doesnt bother me.
The only thing that annoys me is a story that is supposed to have a medieval setting, but the characters values and attitudes are throughly modern, and so are not in this way faithful to the era.
Good King Harry is one of my favourites too, in spite of all the historians who have been demonising him in the last few years. Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 movie version is of the Shakespeare play is my favourite.
Cant say I particularly like the name Humphrey either, in terms of ‘medieval’ names I like Richard, Edward and Thomas best.
Yes, I suppose the books have to be categorized as fantasy because the setting is made up. I always think of fantasy as sorcery and dragons and fauns and nymphs and such, and that’s not anything like what’s in these books. I have tried to stick to what’s realistically English medieval, but as I said, there are some differences because it’s a made up place.
I love Kenneth Branagh, especially in Henry V. He was doing it live in London when I was there once, and I was totally blown away. I ended up seeing the show five times. Yes, it was that good. I guess what I love about him doing Shakespeare is that he actually knows what he’s saying. So many modern actors don’t seem to understand the lines at all. Branagh definitely does.
That’s sort of what I saw fantasy as, but I now know its pretty much anything thats not set in a real historical time/ place. One of the reasons why I like LOTR so much is because although it is Fantasy, the beliefs and attitudes of the characters often reflect those that would have been held by people in past cultures.
I dislike intensely (with a few exceptions) those which impose modern standards, like having characters beleive that capital punishment was evil at a time when it was the norm, or imposing attitudes towards romantic and sexual relationships, when such attitudes can clearly be demonstated to have been much different then.
Rant over.
It is with good reason that Branagh is regarded as one on the best British and Shakespearean actors around. Though I confess I have never seen any of his stage plays.
Have you visited England many times?
I’ve been to England five times. Six, if you count a brief layover coming back from Kiev. But that’s been a while now. I did love it over there and would love to go back some day.
Ukraine? You do get around. I feel rather inadequate. The furthest i’ve been is Tunisia. Though I was born in South Africa.
Well, I’ve been to England those times, took a whirlwind tour of Germany/France/Switzerland over four days, and went with my church’s music team to Kiev and that’s about it. I haven’t seen much of my own country, sadly, but I’ve gotten to where I like sleeping in my own bed too much.
Same here iv’e been to the Highlands of Scotland on a which involved lots day trips because it was a bus tour, to Yorkshire and Devon a few times and once to Wales but ive hardly really seen any of Britain.
Hi, noticed the last enquiry regarding “Dinner of Herbs” was May 2011, and would love to know whether you have anymore feedback
I’m sorry to say I don’t have any additional information right now. Like most businesses these days, things are moving slowly in the publishing world.
Stay tuned. I’ll make sure a let everybody know when I have something new to report.
Just discovered your books and am really enjoying them. Would really like it though, if you had a spot on your site here that would list the books in order. Right now the ladies in my knitting group are reading your Annie’s Attic Mysteries. Thanks for the good stories.
Thanks for asking about the books.
The list of them so far in order is on my Letters in the Attic page HERE.
Scroll all the way to the bottom.
Thank you for all the good Annie’s Attics Mysteries. I have received all 10 of them from an email buddy and love them all. Now I have sent one to my sister and think she will become just as partial to them as I am. The last one I received was Emeralds in the Attic and it was so good. I have tried to get them from the library and they are not there and we do have wonderful libraries in our area. Do any of the libraries have them? Does anyone know the answer to that? Thanks again.
Thanks for reading, Shirley. I’m so glad you’re enjoying the books.
I don’t know the answer to your question, but you might try talking to your local library directly. Many times they’re happy to accommodate requests.
I just finished IN HONOR BOUND a few days ago. I really liked the book. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Thank you, Shirley. I appreciate it so much.
I hope you’ll let me know what you think of the rest of the series.
I only want to know when are you going to write more books in the same category of “In honor bound” – This one gets the second place of all – that is now after Redeeming love. (Please if you can answer by e-mail).
I am recieving the collection from Annie’s Attic and thought I would look up the authors. I am so glad I did. It seems we share a love for times past. There are few who write the gentle story. I am so looking forward to buying your books and enjoying the quiet times. I’ll be watching for your books and can say only on thing…..”Please, don’t just sit there….WRITE !!!”
Wishing you luck. Thanks and God Bless…….Donna
Oh, thank you, Donna. I’m so glad you enjoyed Letters in the Attic. Another of my books in the series, The Key in the Attic, will be coming sometime next year.
Not all my books are as “gentle” as Letters and Key, though any of them in the Annie’s Attic series will be, but I try to make them all entertaining and worth reading.
And, actually, I’m not just sitting here. I’m (mostly) writing!
Thanks for stopping by.
Beautiful website. I’ve read your Chastelayne trilogy, but it’s been a while. I think it’s time to REREAD!!
God bless you! You’re an awesome author!
Hello, Deanna!
I just finished reading your series “In Honor Bound”. I read the first one and immediately reserched to find out if there were sequels. Imagine my relief when I found there were two more! I ordered both copies that day! I could hardly put these books down. I stayed up WAY too late reading. All three of them were great! I really, really, like the way you stayed with the main characters. I get so frustrated when I read sequels and the author has moved on to another set of characters when I have already fallen in love with the first ones! I would soooooo love for you to expand this series. Hey…Gilbert Morris has over 30 in his “House of Winslow” series…Lol. I would love to continue in the story of Rosalynde and Philip and “see” their children grow up! These are by far the best books I have read in a long time. Thanks so much!!
Cathy
Oh, thank you so much, Peggy! I’m so glad you like the books. I hope to have some fresh book news soon.
Read about one third of ‘In Honor Bound’ and I love it! I can definately see the resemblance between Phillip and King Henry V, and I really like the style of dialogue you have used.
I lot of ‘Medieval novels’ have the characters speaking in a way that is too modern, using anachonistic contemoprary words phrases or idioms, and this just doesn’t fit in with the setting.
I am really impressed with the way that you managed to make the charater’s speech authentic, by including words that would have been used in the 15th/16th century, but no so archaic that is is difficult to read and understand.
This is not easy thing to do, and I think it really shows your skill as a writer. It is just a shame you have not written anymore novels set in the Medieval period.