Available today from Liquid Silver Books:  A Blanket of Bitter Frost.  Book three in our Arcana Ancien series, this book picks up a few months after Shadows of an African Sun left off and follows the continuing adventures of Diana, Graeme, and Peter.  When Graeme begins to lose his ability to communicate with the world around him, it’s up to Diana and Peter to find a solution before time runs out.

This book proved to be quite a challenge for Grey and I to write.  The first book has the excitement of discovering the characters and the world they live in.  When you get to writing the second, you have the basics down and can have fun seeing where they take you next.  Both Shadows and the second book in our Creatures of Sin series were a veritable breeze to write.  Third books turn out to be our nemeses.  Things start out all right, but the halfway point to last third  is like pulling teeth to get written.  The bones are good, but things don’t quite fall into place.  Grey’s not a huge fan of re-writes, and for some reason it tends to be my forte.  So after we let it sit and talk it over some, it’s time to re-read and re-work.  In the end, it is well worth the angst, but frustrating as hell when it’s come so easy before.  Books four and five in Arcana Ancien have pretty much written themselves for out.  Hopefully the next books in our Creatures series follow the same trend.

We can but hope.