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Echo, the titular character of my newest book “An Echo of the Fae” is a twelve-year old girl who lives on the island of Ennis Rosliath, in the village by the same name.

Quiet and bookish, Echo is not an athlete, though she does enjoy climbing trees. Although the sea provides the island with most of its livelihood, Echo lives in terror of its depths and often imagines that malicious beings live below the surface waiting to pull unsuspecting waders under. She prefers the “haunted” forest that stretches across the center of the island and the woodland creatures there who are her friends. For Echo, conversing with animals is far easier than interacting with people, for she always gets tongue-tied and can’t think of a thing to say, or what she tries to say comes out garbled and mixed up.

When I was twelve years old, my next door neighbor friend let me borrow her copy of Beauty by Robin McKinley. I devoured the book and when I finished, I flipped back to the first page and read it again. I don’t know that I’ve ever done that with another book. That was my first experience reading a fairy tale retelling, and from that moment on, I was hooked.

Because of that experience, and then my own experience re-telling the story for the Rooglewood contest, Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale that is quite dear to my heart.

Today is the day!

Today I get to reveal the cover for my newest story! You may remember me talking about this story last year when I wrote it in a whirlwind after deciding to put my plans for finishing the final Turrim Archive book on hold for a bit.

Well, that book is finished, edited, polished, and just about ready for readers! And today, you get to see the beautiful cover, designed by the amazing and incomparable Savannah Jezowski of Dragonpen Designs!