Sherwood Smith began her publishing career in 1986, writing mostly for young adults and children. To date she’s published over thirty books. The latest was Treason’s Shore, last of the four-book Inda series, with Coronets and Steel scheduled for September 2010. She also writes for young adults, her most popular book being Crown Duel, from Firebirds — the e-book edition of its prequel, Stranger to Command, will be her first offering through Book View Cafe. She’s also written short fiction, and collaborated with several authors, including the Grand Master Andre Norton. One of her books was an Anne Lindbergh Honor Book; she’s twice been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and once a Nebula finalist. Some of her stories have been reprinted in “best of” anthologies, and her work has been translated into numerous languages.

Sherwood Smith was a teacher for twenty years, working with children from second grade to high school. She specialized in literature, history, and drama. 

To learn more about Sherwood, you can visit her personal website at: http://www.sherwoodsmith.net/ or catch up with her on LiveJournal.

Crown Duel

Sherwood Smith's most popular young adult fantasy begins with Meliara and her brother vowing to free Remalna from an evil king. War is tougher than it seemed. When Meliara is caught by the enemy commander, the elegant Marquis of Shevraeth, it’s escape or die. Afterward, Meliara faces a tougher challenge: the battlefield is no longer mud and steel, but palaces, the weapons manners and fans. Toughest of all is courtship, when the one who catches her heart is an enemy.

This is the newly edited edition, including a short story afterward, plus six scenes from Shevraeth's point of view.

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 A Stranger to Command

The prequel to CROWN DUEL begins with fifteen-year-old Vidanric, Marquis of Shevraeth, being sent to the cavalry academy in far-away Marloven Hess to learn command. Marloven Hess is recently recovering from yet another bout of violence, leaving everyone, from the fifteen-year-old king Senrid to the everyday folk wondering what will happen next.  Nothing is like what he expected--including the fact that he's not even known by his personal name, only by his title. Action, reaction, terror and laughter, even romance await Shevraeth . . . in the meantime, world events are slowly moving these young people into key positions for the conflagration to come. Whether they are ready or not.

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