Hello all,

There are actually a few new things that have been added to the site since I last sent out a newsletter in February. If you want to check out new things on the site, you can go to the 'What's New' page (http://www.brightweavings.com/whatsnew.htm), which gives you all the links - there's new scholarship, new reader art, the bibliography for Last Light of the Sun... but I'm going to cut to the chase for now and focus on the big news.

As of today, I can finally reveal the title of GGK's next book! It is called Ysabel and will be published around January 2007.

Here is a little introduction:

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"Everyone comes from somewhere else."

Provence, in the south of France, is a part of the world that has been—and continues to be—called a paradise. But one of the lessons that history teaches is that paradise is coveted and fought over. Successive waves of invaders have claimed—or tried to claim—those vineyards, rivers, olive groves, and hills.

In Guy Gavriel Kay’s new novel, Ysabel, this duality—of exquisite beauty and violent history—is explored in a work that marks a departure from Kay’s historical fantasies set in various analogues of the past.

Ysabel takes place in the world of today: in a modern springtime, in and around the celebrated city of Aix-en-Provence near Marseilles. Dangerous, mythic figures from the Celtic and Roman conflicts of the past erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives.

The protagonist is Ned Marriner, the fifteen year-old son of a well-known photographer. Ned has accompanied his father, Edward Marriner, and a team of assistants to Provence for a six week “shoot.”

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There is more introduction than that, which you can find on the site. There is also an excerpt - the prologue! Together with a copy of what will be the Canadian cover for the book. All of this can be found on http://www.brightweavings.com/books/ysabel.htm

GGK is also planning on starting an Ysabel journal, which will be on the forums, like the Last Light of the Sun tour journal was. This one will start quite soon, so it will not only focus on post-publication tidbits, but also on pre-publication moments of note. The journal will probably be updated less frequently than the previous one, but ultimately will cover more ground. I'll send out another newsletter when it gets underway.

Enjoy, everyone!

Deborah