It's official...We've renamed my book!

Yes, it's true!  We've changed the title of my first novel to....

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A Murder at Rosamund's Gate

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My original title, Monster at the Gate, was deemed by the good people at Minotaur/St. Martin's to sound a little too harsh, a little too supernatural--and more importantly--a little too different in style from the type of book I had actually written. 

I get that, actually.  In one of my first blog posts, I talked about how the word "monster" was understood in seventeenth-century England, back when it didn't carry the supernatural "Frankenstein's Creature" connotation that it does today.

But you know what? I love my new title. I think it captures the essence of my book better than the first title did.  And hopefully, you'll see why, when my book comes out in early 2013. 

For now, you might imagine strolling through the beautiful garden pictured above. Birds, trees, seventeenth-century stonework...and oh no! a body...