April 22, 2008
All sorts of stuff to report:
The first draft of Jacky 7...

... is now on the Editor's desk. Sail on, Jacky...

The sixth book...

... will be published on Sept. 1 and here's a look at Cliff Nielsen's jacket cover:

Pretty neat, hey?

And there's more - the French edition of Bloody Jack has just come out and here's the cover:

"Makes me look very French, n'est-ce pas?" - Jacky

And we have found that Listen & Live Audio will have Curse of the Blue Tattoo narrated by the inestimable Katherine Kellgren out very shortly. Hooray! Can't wait! Check out their website for a list of the awards the first BJ audiobook won.

Also, Bloody Jack has been translated into Indonesian. Can you believe that?

August 24, 2007
Mississippi Jack is now available! Here's the cover, see the Store!

July 12, 2007

Just got a starred review of the audio of BJ from Publishers Weekly. Here it is:

Bloody Jack, by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren, Listen & Live Audio

The tale of Mary, an 18th-century London street urchin who dresses as a boy, renames herself "Jacky" and goes to sea as a ship's boy, soars to new heights in the audio format. Mary's distinctive Cockney dialect is tailor-made for reading aloud. And with award-winning narrator Kellgren at the helm, the result is pure magic.She creates authentic character voices, switching effortlessly among Mary's Cockney, the melodic Irish lilt of sailor Liam, the educated American voice of schoolmaster Tilden, the chillingly sinister, leering tone of Bill Sloat, and many other voices without missing a beat. Her acting is also first-rate: her tone of pride as Mary boasts of her achievements, her tenderness as she speaks of Jaimy, the boy she secretly falls in love with, and the sheer terror in her voice during scenes of violence and danger will have listeners on the edge of their seats. For tweens and teens caught up in this summer's Pirate Fever, Bloody Jack is the perfect audiobook to make those long family car trips fly by. Ages 12-up.

Pretty good, eh? check it out at the Store.

May 30, 2007

The Audio book of Bloody Jack is now available and it is a really wonderful.

Have found out that Jacky is being translated into Indonesian. How wild is that?

The sixth book in the series is done and at the publisher. Projected publication date is Sept 1, 2008. The working title is now

April 24, 2007

Hey, big news - Bloody Jack is being translated into French - The Old Guy is delighted, considering the fact that he got C's and D's in French in high school and college. He loves the irony.

March 7, 2007:

Have found that the audio book of Bloody Jack has been completed - The narrator is Katherine Kellgren. Her bio:

Katherine Kellgren has appeared onstage in London, New York, and Frankfurt. Her recent work includes everything from the role of Laura in a regional production of The Glass Menagerie, to appearances on Comedy Central. She has recorded numerous plays and dramatizations of novels for the radio, including winners of the Audiofile Earphones Award and the Peabody Award. She is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
She's plainly British, so that'll help.

Have gotten the rough pages of Mississippi Jack and are going through them to check for last minute changes and errors. The Advanced Reading Copy is next. The thing is totalling out at 616 pages which is something of a surprise, considering we had turned in a manuscripts of 522 pages. But that oughta keep some of you off the streets for a while, anyway.
Saw the initial sketches by Cliff Neilsen for the cover, and they look great.

The first draft of the sixth book in the series is on our editor's desk - working title:

Of course we know that title will be changed (There was a movie of that title that came out in '96), but it'll work for now.

October 26, 2006:

Just received word that Jacky is going on audio! A contract is being drawn up with Listen & Live productions to produce tapes, disks, and digital downloads of Bloody Jack. Harcourt says that Listen & Live is a very good company, so we are very pleased. The audio will be out in the Spring. Jacky on iPod, imagine that...

October 1, 2006:

The fourth book in the series, In the Belly of the Bloodhound, was officially published today. Early reviews are excellent. Here's the cover.

May, 2006

A contract was signed in May granting an option on the movie rights to Bloody Jack for one year, renewable, to two production companies, Atypical Productions and ASR Productions. They're the people who put together Because of Winn Dixie and Bridge to Terabithia. (ASR stands for AnnaSophia Robb, who has expressed interest in playing Jacky.) This does not mean that a movie is going to be made, it only means that these companies have exclusive rights to the book while they try to raise the money to actually do the film, and they're not having much luck - shooting historical novels at sea costs a lot of money, and Hollywood doesn't like to do movies with female leads, hard as that is to believe.

April 6, 2006
Jacky's got a new email address. It's jacky@jackyfaber.com
The old address will only work for a few more weeks.