SALE. SALE. SALE.

What we tell you three times is true. Uncial Press is having its first ever SALE.

There, that's four times, so you can be completely sure you'll save on our backlist titles this month. Everything we published in 2006 will be on sale for 40% off, from 20 March through 31 March. Only at our website. That's just twelve days, so watch your calendar. Don't miss it.

What do you do when you're not reading or working? We asked that question of the Uncial Press authors and got some very interesting answers. Here's a sampling:

I make bookmarks with colored cardstock and tassles with yarn, and sometimes braid beads into the yarn. I use bookmarks to get people to stop for a minute and look at my books. "Would you like a bookmark?" is offering them something, rather than begging "Pleeeeeeeeeese buy my book!"--Michelle Levigne (ZYGRADON, March 2007)

When I don't have a pen in my hand, or a keyboard under my fingers, you can find me at my sewing machine or with a needle and thread in my hand. I love to sew. Cross- stitch, needlepoint, quilting, clothing, it all satisfies my urge, my need, to create something on a 'blank canvas'.--Lesley-Anne McLeod (THE BEGGARMAID, March 2007)

When I'm not reading/writing (hardly ever) I cook. I learned to cook for eight, so there's never any problem chez Simonson with surprise guests, and our freezer is full of good stuff.--Sheila Simonson (A COUSINLY CONNEXION, February 2007)

Real Estate is my profession. I love looking at houses, see the way they look inside. It helps me realize that none of us is so truly very different from the other. We just appear that way from the outside.--Rob Shelsky (MISS ANNABELLE'S YANKEE, coming April 2007)

My large window overlooks my neighbor's two acre yard. I find myself transfixed when they let their border collie out to run. I have never seen an animal that can run so far and so fast for so long! It makes me want to shed this crippled body and go run with her. At least in my own imagination I can!--Leslie Kraus (AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT, coming September 2007)

I love to dance...in the privacy of my own home. I close the curtains, shut the doors, and turn up the volume on songs I can’t sit still to. It's Dance Fever to a jungle beat of jumping, twirling, and clapping!--Susanne Marie Knight (TAINTED TEA FOR TWO, October 2006)

If I had my druthers, I'd bake--cookies, cobblers, bread, cinnamon rolls, etc.--because there is something so rewarding about constructing something with love that nourishes people and they enjoy so much.--RubyLee Schneider (SNASS CHUCKS, coming November 2007)

Two foxes have taken up residence in my family's urban back yard. We look forward to seeing them in the morning, although whenever they realize that we are watching them from afar, they take off--effortlessly leaping over a six foot wooden fence. We sometimes wonder what they have been doing all night while they are out hunting.--Kenneth L. Levinson (FINAL ARGUMENT, January 2007)

I just got back from my Pilates class and I'm still feeling it. It's a wonderful workout for flexibility, strength, and cardio, and nothing makes my back feel better, short of a chiropractor. You know that song by John Cougar Mellencamp, "Hurts so good"? That's Pilates in a nutshell. Try it. You'll love/hate it the same way I do.--Jana Richards (HER BEST MAN, February 2007)

I am a movie reviewer for a local radio station, so I watch a lot of movies. This sounds like fun, until you realize that I see maybe 150-200 flicks a year, of which maybe ten percent are any good.--Ed Goldberg (SERVED COLD, coming August 2007)

Now that you've met our authors, let's see what they've been writing. This month's headliners are worlds apart. Literally.

Lesley-Anne McLeod will take you to Regency England (London, Earth, early nineteenth century), where Lady Iphigenia Brierley lives on the fringes of society, satisfying her hunger at the ton parties to which she is invited and gambling to obtain money for clothing. The Marquess of Wessington is wealthy beyond her imagining, and has a respected and admired place in society. He offers himself first as her friend, then as her rescuer. Finally, he asks for her hand in marriage. But the question to which Genia requires an answer is...why?

Michelle Levigne introduces her enchanting (and enchanted) new series with ZYGRADON, a fantasy strongly rooted in the Merlin legend. Unsure if he was the Child of Blood or the Child of Life, his guardians taught Mrillis of right and wrong, painful choices, and love. The target of an enchanter so evil no one spoke his name, Mrillis becomes an instrument in his defeat, and is then charged with befriending Endor, his orphaned son. Teamed with Ceera, a girl raised as Mrillis’ sister, the three fight to harness the magic star-metal that threatens to destroy their world.

Check our upcoming titles. Next month we'll have a couple of Novel Bytes for when you haven't time for a whole book. Anna C. Bowling tells of a woman's determination to greet a new century by building a new life in NEVER TOO LATE, while Rob Shelsky shows how past and future aren't so far apart in MISS ANNABELLE'S YANKEE. And when you've time to settle down for a longer read, there's Judith B. Glad's Regency romance, A SISTERLY REGARD, in which two sisters share a Season, with vastly differing expectations--and results.

Don't forget that SALE. 20 March through 31 March only, at Uncial Press. Tell your friends. Tell the world.

Be happy and keep well.

Star & Jude

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