BOOK BLURB /
SYNOPSIS –
“Solidly entertaining.” –Publishers
Weekly
Winner, 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal for Fantasy
and Science Fiction.
Winner, Summer 2016 NABE Best Fantasy Book.
Morgan le Fay, sixth-century Queen of Gore and the only
major character not killed off by Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, vows revenge upon the
Yankee Hank Morgan. She casts a spell to take her to 1879 Connecticut so she
may waylay Sir Boss before he can travel back in time to destroy her world. But
the spell misses by 300 miles and 200 years, landing her in the Washington,
D.C., of 2079, replete with flying limousines, hovering office buildings,
virtual-reality television, and sundry other technological marvels.
Whatever is a time-displaced queen of magic and minions to
do? Why, rebuild her kingdom, of course—two kingdoms, in fact: as Campaign Boss
for the reelection of American President Malory Beckham Hinton, and as owner of
the London Knights world-champion baseball franchise.
Written as though by the old master himself, King Arthur’s Sister in Washington’s Court
by Mark Twain as channeled by Kim Iverson Headlee offers laughs, love, and
a candid look at American society, popular culture, politics, baseball… and the
human heart.Excerpt ALL CALL ME
Queen. For my unparalleled skills in leechcraft, most call me “The Wise.” No
man dares call me “le Fay,” lest he die.
I hight Morgan.
That is to say,
my name is Morgan, so chosen by my mother, Duchess Igraine, to honor the Great
Queen of the Old Religion, Mór Rigan, goddess of war. My mother never knew how
prophetic her choice would prove to be.
I am the daughter
of Duke Gorlois, the sister of Queen Margawse and Queen Elaine, the wife of
King Uriens of Gore, and the mother of Sir Uwaine of the Table Round. Blessed
good fortune made me all of these things.
By the capricious
hand of ill fortune, King Arthur became my younger half brother, spawned upon
my most virtuous and blameless mother by that demon in man’s raiment, Uther
Pendragon.
I despised Arthur
from the very hour of his birth.
AUTHOR BIO:
Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern
Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted
wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old
house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the midtwentieth
century—seem to be sticking around for a while yet.Kim has been an award-winning novelist since 1999 (Dawnflight, Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster) and has been studying Arthurian legends and literature for nigh on half a century.
2015 YouTube video
interview: http://youtu.be/DV5iKrEIROk
FOLLOW KIM:
Thank you so much, Kathleen, for spotlighting KASIWC on your blog!
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