New cover is up

My new cover for THE DARK LADY'S STONE is finally up on Amazon, Smashwords, and Kindle. Do check it out.
http://tinyurl.com/lntm6lc
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/356562
I've had excellent feedback on this cover and I hope you like it.
And take a look at the book. It's an in-depth inner and outer journey of the rulers and courtiers of a far-northern land going through transition where new gods seek to supplant the old. Both the representative gods have good and benevolent sides--and not-so innocuous aspects as well. As the storyteller warns: "Beware, O Priest, how you mock the gods."
The narrator, troubadour to the countess, is a witty, good-natured fellow with an ironic sense of humor. I enjoyed accompanying him on the journey while he reluctantly changes from a flirtatious court poet, noted for his blue eyes and clear tenor, to the key figure around whom change occurs. People at all levels of society get caught up in the struggle--count and countess, priests, lumbermen, mule drivers, a young lord, and a shaman/storyteller who mysteriously appears and disappears.

Sold a story!

My alter-ego Christie Maurer just signed a contract for a short story, "Heritage," to appear in the October issue of White Cat Magazine.

"Heritage" is about two nasty people and a ghost in a crumbling Victorian. It came out of a writing exercise at a Monterey Bay Romance Writers meeting several years ago. The assignment was to write a brief scene of two people outside a house. There is something inside that one doesn't want the other to see. One tries to get in, the other tries to keep him/her out. Other members of the group came up with a dead body, a hidden treasure, drugs, or stolen loot. In "Heritage" it's none of the above.