News From the Scriptorium
Book Reading, July 12, 2025
ELLA is Back in The Competition!
"The Shop Girl of Flowergate" is making a repeat appearance in the AllAuthor.com Cover of the Month competition for April, which is for fantasy covers. Here's the back cover artwork. We've made it to the third round - the round of 24. The competition started with 100 covers. We'd appreciate your vote!
"ASCALON" IN COMPETITION FOR BOOK COVER OF THE MONTH
Last year "The Shop Girl of Flowergate" had the honor of being in the final top ten for the Occtober Book Cover of the Month at AllAuthor.com. This year, the new cover for "Ascalon" is in the running. We'd appreciate your vote. The first round began this week. Click on the button and register your vote! Thanks!
Support Your Neighbors!
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2023
November 25, 2023, is Small Business Saturday! Spend some time and hopefully some money getting to know your neighborhood shops. While WRV isn't a brick-and-mortar store, we are a very small business and appreciate your interest in our books. Check out our titles - you may find one that would be a perfect gift.
Please Show Your Support for Whyte Rose and Violet, Scribes
SHOP GIRL ADVANCES TO THE FINAL ROUND
"The Shop Girl of Flowergate" advanced to the fourth and final round of the Allauthor.com Book Cover of the Month Competition and is in position at No. 10. Only three can win, so please vote!
SHOP GIRL ADVANCES TO THE SECOND ROUND!
"The Shop Girl of Flowergate," has advanced to the second round of voting in the October "Cover of the Month" contest at AllAuthor.com. "Shop Girl" moved up in position to No. 14. There are five more days in this voting cycle, so please vote now!
Nominated for October Book Cover of the Month!
Whyte Rose and Violet, Scribes is pleased that its latest book, "The Shop Girl of Flowergate," has been nominated for the October "Cover of the Month" contest at AllAuthor.com. Please support our continuing work offering fantasy, historical, and literary fiction by registering your vote!
"TALLIS' THIRD TUNE" IN COMPETITION
"Tallis' Third Tune," the novel that started the "Midwinter Sonata" series about love, loss, and redemption, is a contender in the Indie Author Project - California Author Project Book Awards for 2023. The winners will be announced this Fall.
A New Look for a Different Kind of Fairy Tale
A storybook cover for a fairy tale we particularly like - as do our readers! You may purchase a trade paperback copy at Amazon.com. If you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, you can read it without cost.
Artwork courtesy of Robyn of Exeter at Adobe Stock; cover layout and formatting by Whyte Rose & Violet, Artists.
Return to the Village
It's Our Anniversary!
WrV - TEN YEARS!
September 15, 2013, marks the tenth anniversary of Whyte Rose & Violet, Scribes. We haven't made a lot of money, but eight books have been published, and numbers nine and ten are in the works. Are we resting on our laurels? No indeed. The best is coming.
New Logo
With the assistance of Adobe Firefly, we've created a new logo for Whyte Rose & Violet, Scribes. Copyright 2025 by Ellen L. Ekstrom and Whyte Rose & Violet, Artists
Expanding our reach
In an effort to reach prospective readers, we're expanding our markets. "The Legacy - 20th Anniversary Edition" is now available as an EPUB edition at Kobo! We should have the entire WrV backlist uploaded by the end of summer. Meanwhile, here's the link:
WHAT HAPPENS IN BYZANTIUM . . .
Won't stay in Byzantium.
George Ascalon and Roger Mowbray escape Jerusalem with their lives and begin a new and frightening adventure in the Byzantine Empire.
Book Two of "The Ascalon Saga," George of Grasmere: Part Two - The City is next in the series.
Expected release: April 2026.
Available NOW!
Click on this link and order your copy of the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of "The Legacy!"
Amazon.com: The Legacy: Twentieth Anniversary Edition eBook: Ekstrom, Ellen: Kindle Store
Hardcover, Trade paperback, and e-book available now at Amazon; also available by special order at your local brick-and-mortal store.
He's Here!
"George of Grasmere" Released April 23, 2024
The ebook edition is now available at Amazon.com. This is the first book in the 'accidental' series, "The Ascalon Saga." More about that, later. Trade paperback and hardcover editions are forthcoming.
Recognition!!
Interview at All Author
Read what Ellen has to say about writing, faith, her inspirations, and what drives her to write at All Author. Click the button right there, below:
"GEORGE OF GRASMERE" PREVIEW: APRIL 14, 2024
Read excerpts from "George of Grasmere" at our blog "Thoughts Aloud-the WRV Blog" on April 14, 2024.
Mark your calendars!