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News Archive: 2006
24 December 2006
Merry Christmas, everybody! I wish you all a peaceful and joyful time with your friends and family!
If you go to the Members Section you'll find some pressies from me to you - a reading of a Christmas scene from CASTLE OF THE WOLF and the first part of a Viking romance set in East Prussia. Enjoy!
8 December 2006
Several new exciting things have been added to the website: it has now a Members Section for subscribers of my newsletter.
On these pages you can find additional excerpts and audio clippings not available anywhere else. I hope you're going to
enjoy this new feature!
2 September 2006
I am thrilled to announce that I sold two more books to Dorchester. The first of these, CASTLE OF THE WOLF, will be a May 2007 release. It is the story of Cissy Fussell, who finds out after her father's death that she has inherited a castle in the Black Forest. However, there is one little, itty-bitty problem: in order to keep the castle she has to marry Fenris von Wolfenbach, the son of her father's best friend. And Fenris is far from happy about this turn of events either ... To find out more, go to my brandnew
CASTLE OF THE WOLF page, or read an
excerpt.
20 August 2006
The first episode of BETRAYAL is now online! You're cordially invited to join me at Sandy's Podchatter and step back into Regency England and Germany for Georgina's and Ash's story. BETRAYAL is meant as a little thank you for your support during my first year of published authordom. Thank you and enjoy! :O)
1 July 2006
It's finally here: my new, re-vamped website! I hope you enjoy the new design. Please let me know if you find
any bugs or mistakes.
Apart from the new design, there are also several new pages and a brandnew feature: the Secret Pages -- hidden pages you
can only access when you find the hidden links. At the moment there are eight Secret Pages altogether, among them "Fun Facts About
Sandra" and several excerpts from the first (unpublished) novel I wrote in English, HIGHLAND LOVE.
Enjoy!
25 May 2006
Read an excerpt from "Betrayal", my brandnew novella,
coming to you this summer!
13 May 2006
I've updated the programme for Sandy's Podchatter and have
added a description how to get to Mainz University on the as events page.
31 March 2006
I've added a page with the programme for Sandy's Podchatter
as well as a page where I explain about podcasting.
19 March 2006
This summer you will be able to listen to my new novella, Betrayal,
exclusively on Sandy's Podchatter. Don't miss it!
12 March 2006
Launching Sandy's Podchatter:
Last weekend my podcast went online -- you can either listen to it directly online,
download it, or subscribe to it via iTunes, podcatcher, etc. Load the episodes on your iPod
or MP3-player and listen to your own private author reading in the bus, in the car, while
jogging or while lounging on your sofa! Find out what I've got to say about the writer's life,
research, my favourite books and films, and so much more. A little later this year I've got
a very special surprise planned for my podcast listeners. Don't miss it!
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On 19 May I'll be giving a public reading at Mainz University (7 p.m., Alter Fakultätssaal,
Philosophicum). More info on this will follow soon!
5 February 2006
The new year started with several bangs: THE LILY BRAND has been nominated for
a RT Reviewers' Choice Award
in the category "Best First Historical Romance 2005";
German readers chose THE LILY BRAND as Best 2005
Romance in English; and in the Annual Readers Poll
at AAR THE LILY BRAND appears on the shortlists for Most-Hanky Read, Most Tortured Hero, Best Villain and Best Buried Treasure,
while my name is listed in the category Best Debut Author. Yay!
Votes can still be cast until February 19.
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A lovely new review of THE LILY BRAND went online at
Historical Romance Writers.
I've also added several more reviews not listed before to the Reviews page.
When you visit THE LILY BRAND pages, you'll notice that there's a new feature:
THE LILY BRAND Miscellany!
So far it consists of a story I wrote when working on THE LILY BRAND - back when it was still STRAIGHT TO THE HEART. It was
a writing exercise, and it turned out to be a little ... uhm ... postmodern in my case. I hope you'll enjoy it!
~*~
The Mystic Castle will hold a Regency Authors Chat at 9:00
p.m. on 21 February. I'm planning to attend, so I hope you'll hop over and join the fun!
~*~
My Winter Contest is still running until the end of the month. If you'd like
to get a signed coverflap of THE LILY BRAND as well as an audio CD with some of my old short stories and poems, be sure to
enter! Good luck!
~*~
"That's all fine and dandy," you might think, "but what about her next novel?" If you're
reading my blog, you'll know that THE CASTLE OF WOLFENBACH (aka "The Dratted WIP") is
already finished - but hasn't sold yet. I'm very sorry about the delay, yet I hope I'll
have some good news soon. If you'd like a sneak preview of the hero,
Fenris von Wolfenbach, head over to the archives of my
pink blog
(scroll down to the post "Free Plotting" at the bottom of the page). Enjoy!
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