Favorite Daughter, Part One, Now Available at Amazon.com

I'm happy to announce the release of my latest book, Favorite Daughter, Part One, a historical novel about Pocahontas.

Set in the time of the Jamestown settlement and the English explorer John Smith, Favorite Daughter, Part One recounts the story of Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, as she prepares to take her place as one of our nation's earliest leading women. Pocahontas invites readers to experience her native world when strangers appear on the shores near her village. From forging a relationship with the charismatic Smith, to experiencing love for the first time and creating a role for herself in her father’s plans for peace, this young girl takes us on a poignant and harrowing journey through the turbulent events of her life. Eventually betrayed by all of the men she loves, Pocahontas matures into a heroine of tremendous nobility, courage, and heart. 

Told in first person, in a voice brimming with compassion and wisdom, Favorite Daughter, Part One provides a compelling look at the early days of one of the most remarkable legends in American history. 

Favorite Daughter, Part One is available at Amazon.com. Pick up your copy today!

Two More Awards for Face Value: Collected Stories!

Great news! In addition to being a San Diego State Writers' Conference Editor's Choice Award Winner, Face Value: Collected Stories is a finalist in the following 2014 contests:

 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Short Story/Fiction

 2014 National Indie Excellence Book Awards - Short Stories

Big Love for Coyote Heart

Many thanks to the bloggers who have recently reviewed Coyote Heart. Click on the following links to read some of the reviews and interviews: 

Raven Reviews

Night Owl Reviews

The Bibliophilic Book Blog

Agents of Romance

Face Value: Collected Stories

Coyote Heart, Second Edition

Advance Praise for Face Value:Collected Stories

My latest book, a collection of short stories called Face Value: Collected Stories, is now available in print and ebook form at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other outlets.

I wrote these stories years ago, during the early 2000's, when our country was undergoing some significant events (like the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center). I felt that we were changing as a nation and wanted to write stories that reflected our collective sense of tragedy and loss of innocence. 

The title story, Face Value, was an Editor's Choice Award winner at the 2003 San Diego State Writers' Conference. A year later, in 2004, the entire collection also received an Editor's Choice Award.

I'm deeply grateful to the following authors for sharing their thoughts about the collection:

“In Face Value: Collected Stories, Margulies’ characters speak in voices that are tender and soulful, full of love and a quiet acceptance of the inevitable. These are stories of life and death, and the peculiar human ability to mourn the past while remaining ever hopeful for the future.”  
 ~Drusilla Campbell, author of When She Came Home, Little Girl Gone, and Bone Lake

“Reading Paula Margulies’ stories is like peering in a window on a rainy afternoon.  Each word is a drop, tactile and surprising, patters of laughter and fat dollops of truth, dislodging secrets, causing hidden fears to trail away.  The windows of our eyes are cleared, revealing the face of someone we have only just discovered we care about.”
~Craig English, author of The Anvil of Navarre

“Like a cool wind nudging a curl in the water to the ominous explosion at the end, the poignant stories in Paula Margulies' Face Value: Collected Stories start quietly with heavenly prose and exquisitely-drawn characters, rise in conflict and power, and finally crash on the reader, causing shock and wonder at what we humans are capable of.”  
~Bonnie ZoBell, author of What Happened Here and The Whack-Job Girls

A new edition of Coyote Heart will be available in January, 2014. Stay tuned for updates!