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I have lots of authors on my ‘must buy immediately in hardcover’ list, and one such author is Lisa Goldstein<\/a>. <\/p>\n I was thinking today that it was about time for her to have a new novel out, since it had been quite a while since The Alchemist’s Door<\/a>, so I popped over to her web page<\/a> to see if there was any news.<\/p>\n And, once I got there I got a bit of a surprise while reading The Brazen Hussies Newsletter for this month<\/a>:<\/p>\n This year, the biggest news comes from Lisa Goldstein, who reveals a deep, dark secret. (Well, maybe not so dark, but definitely a secret.)<\/p>\n Lisa writes:<\/p>\n “As some of you on this mailing list know, this past year I published a novel under a pseudonym. I promised several people on the list that I would tell them my pseudonym before the hardcover went of print. Since the paperback is coming out in March, I figure now is the time. The book is Daughter of Exile<\/a>, and my pseudonym is Isabel Glass (I borrowed the name Isabel from Point Isabel, the dog park where I walk my dog.)<\/p>\n My editor wanted me to use a pseudonym for Daughter of Exile<\/a> because it’s a little different from other books I’ve written. In this novel, I wanted to write something ambitious that reached back to the roots of high fantasy %u2014 myths, folktales, and stories of people coming into power and responsibility. Naturally the book was labeled “Romantic Fantasy.” Because of that, reviewers more or less ignored it. (There were a few brave, notable exceptions. Patricia McKillip called it “an intriguing and fast-paced journey,” which made me very happy. Kirkus Review described it as “ingeniously plotted, tellingly detailed.”)<\/p>\n Currently, Daughter of Exile<\/a> is available in hardcover. The paperback will be out in March. And in July, The Divided Crown<\/a>, a second novel by Isabel Glass, will be coming out in hardcover.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In a marvelous bit of synchronicity, I got a package of books today (on which I may say more later) that included Daughter of Exile. I had ordered on the basis of a particularly strong recommendation from a friend–a recommendation that had to be strong to get me past the cover picture\/blurb and marketing of the book as a ‘fantasy for romance novel readers’–but not with anything like the excitement I would have had for a new Goldstein. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have lots of authors on my ‘must buy immediately in hardcover’ list, and one such author is Lisa Goldstein. I was thinking today that it was about time for her to have a new novel out, since it had been quite a while since The Alchemist’s Door, so I popped over to her web page to see if there… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-2d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}