What are they up to?

One part of my Internet ritual is looking at my favorite HF author's websites to see what they are working on next. So I thought I would do the stalking for you and let you know what's up.

Elizabeth Chadwick is working on a novel about Mahelt, the eldest daughter of that medieval stud, William Marshall. There is no publication date yet.

She has also begun research on Edith Swan-Neck, who was the un-wedded consort to Harold II of England.

EC will also be having three novels, after some re-edits, re-release in the UK. The Wild Hunt, The Running Vixen and The Leopard Unleashed will be released in 2008 and 2009.

Jeanne Kologridis, author of The Borgia Bride (which I really enjoyed) is in the progress of completing a novel about Catherine de Medici. I'm looking forward to see what Kalogridis does with Catherine as she is fascinating to read about. In the US it is going to be called The Bloodiest Queen and in the UK, The Medici Queen. No publication date.

The talented new Queen of Egypt, Michelle Moran, has a really great novel up her sleeve. Cleopatra's Daughter is the story about the fate of Cleopatra and Marc Antony's children. Click here for the really cool trailer. The release date is September 15, 2009.

Jennifer Donnelly, the outstanding author of The Tea RoseThe Winter Rose, is now working on the last book in the trilogy, The Wild Rose. This book reconnects us with the Finnegans as they live through World War I and into the Roarin' 20s. If you haven't read this trilogy yet then you are really missin' out. No publication date yet.

A novel on the latter part of Elizabeth I's reign is the focus of the next novel of Margaret George. George is the author with such books as Helen of Troy and The Autobiography of Henry VIII (which was wonderful) under her belt. Be warned she likes 'em big...her books are for the readers that are in for the long haul. Don't let me scare you off though - they are beautiful stories.

Susan Higginbotham, who I think could start her own genre of historical comedy. She has a very funny and entertaining blog that is one you should check out.

Susan's novel The Traitor's Wife is being re-released by Sourcebooks (see, there's that name again) on April 1, 2009. And she is now working on another novel set during the War of the Roses. Edit: Susan was kind enough to email me back with more information on her new project (thanks Susan!). It is told by Harry Stafford, second Duke of Buckingham and his wife, Katherine Woodville (youngest sister of Elizabeth Woodville, mother of the princes in the tower) and will cover the events from 1464 to 1495. She hoes to have it completed in 2009. There is no publication date set.

I just read an awesome book. Perhaps you've heard of it? Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman, which is the third book (and not last) in her Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II series was a sensation around the book blog world when it was released in October.

Penman's next sensation is going to be the fourth novel dealing with Eleanor, Richard, John and Joanna (the daughter that married Llewelyn in her Welsh Trilogy). It is titled Lionheart and set to be released in 2011. Argh....that seems sooooo far away!!

p.s. Sharon has started her first blog. Check it out.