Grace Draven Blog

This post has been edited with current information. Due to Amazon’s copyright verification protocols that are in place, I’ve had to pull down the previous sections posted so as not to receive nasty-grams from Amazon about copyright verification. This kind of thing can happen when their bots go hunting for stuff and why piracy is […]

This is last-minute due to a very crazy schedule and me trying to play catch-up with updates and notifications. Katy Budget Books is hosting a virtual book launch event for me tonight (June 10th) from 9:00 – 10:00 p.m. CST (central standard time) via Zoom. If you’d like to attend, here is the information regarding […]

On the writing front, I have a lot of news and some explanation, so it will be long. Grab you a drink and settle in. My three-book contract with Penguin-Random House has a non-compete clause in it that states I cannot publish any novel-length work two months prior and three months after a novel I’ve […]

The San Antonio Public Library hosts a free one-day event at their main library called POP CON. It’s basically a micro comic-con and a lot of fun. I attended as a guest author for the 2019 event, and my kids went with us, cosplaying as favorite characters. We all had a fabulous time. SAPL will […]

Quick update: If you pre-ordered DRAGON UNLEASHED via Amazon, you may have received a notification that the publishing date has been moved from December 10th to June 2020. The change in date is based on two things – when I turned in the completed manuscript after first-round revisions and when Penguin-Random House’s production department determined […]

Update on writing schedule. I apologize for the long hiatus with updating this blog. 2019 has been a very busy year so far and promises to remain that way through 2020. DRAGON UNLEASHED – This is book #2 in the Fallen Empire trilogy (PHOENIX UNBOUND was book #1). Currently, it’s scheduled for a release date […]

If you’re within reasonable driving distance (and even if you aren’t – 🙂 ), I hope you can stop in at Katy Budget Books this Tuesday (Oct. 23rd) at 6:30 p.m. I’ll be signing copies of PHOENIX UNBOUND. My awesome mother-in-law will be there with me for moral support, and Mr. Draven of course in […]

Today is the book birthday for PHOENIX UNBOUND (buy links on the book’s page here on the website).  After several months of seeing it as only a preorder, I’m pretty excited to see the go-live.  For those of you who are interested in the book but haven’t yet purchased it and would like a sneak […]

Hi all, It’s been some time since I last posted on the blog. I’m up to my eyeballs in projects, so I’ll keep this short. Summer this year was more than we ever expected. As I mentioned in my previous post, I had shoulder surgery which went well. Things were getting back to normal when […]

For those still checking in on my website, I thank you.  I’ve neglected it and this blog for a few months now.  Most of my daily activity is on my FB page, but that includes not only book info. but non-book info. as well, so it may not be something you’d want to follow.  Anyway, […]