Welcome to my Royal Diaries site! Currently, there are 15 additions in the best-selling Royal Diaries series by Dear America. Here are a few editions from the series that will be published in the future...
Upcoming Royal Diaries!
Weetamoo:Heart of the Pocassets Massachusetts 1653
by Patricia Clark Smith
In stores now! Check out the cover and a few excerpts on the Photo Page!
It is 1654 in New England, native land of Algonquin tribes, among them the Pocasset, Wampanoag, and Narrangansett people. The pilgrims -- called Coat-men by the Wampanoag -- have settled here in the natives' territory at Patuxit, a place that the Pilgrims have renamed Plymouth. Weetamoo's father, Corbitant, is sachem, or chief, of the Pocassets. He is mistrustful of the colonists and imparts his beliefs about them to his daughter, who is next in line to become chief. Weetamoo must learn the fundamental values and disciplines of a true Pocasset chief.
Lady of Palenque Mexico 800's
by Anna Kirwan
March of 2004
The diary of a Mayan princess at the time of the collapse of the Mayan civilization. Growing up in the Yucatan Peninsula, she records her worries of the war approaching and marriage as part of a political alliance.
Kazunomiya Japan 1860's
by Kathryn Lasky
April of 2004
The diary of a 16 year old Japanese princess, Kazunomiya, sister of the Emperor Meiko. She describes her carefree life in the immense palaces and her worries as her life changes when she is betrothed to a 14th Tokugawa shogun named Iemochi and must leave her world behind to become his wife in 1862, as part of a political alliance to bring the shogunate and the imperial monarchy into harmony.
Maria Theresa Austria 1730's
by ???
August of 2004
The diary of the oldest child of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elizabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel. She describes her upbringing in the many Viennese palaces of the Hapsburgs with her younger sister, Marianna, and describes how one day she will inherit the Hapsburg throne, an honor never bestowed upon a woman, yet is not educated in diplomatic fields. Will probably be set around 1730.
Catherine the Great Germany 1740's
by Kristiana Gregory
October of 2004
The diary of Sophie, a German duchess who became Empress Catherine of Russia when she married her cousin, the Emperor. Sophie describes her life unlike other royals, a life living in a poor, small house in the German forests, no education, constant farm work, and playing with peasants. However, a letter arrives for Sophie's mother from Sophie's aunt, Elizabeth, inviting Sophie and her sister to Russia to meet their cousin and to arrange a marriage for Sophie and her cousin, the Emperor of Russia. She is to become the Empress of Russia!
Unfortunately, the Royal Diaries will end in 2004 with Catherine the Great. The Dear America Series will continue, fortunately. After 20 books, all of very good quality and very popular in many countries, this series will end. Enjoy them while you can!
Updates: Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets by Patricia Clark Smith is due out this month. Lady of Palenque is now listed on amazon.ca (not on Library of Congress/amazon.com yet) to be released in March, 2004, and the cover was recently finished by the Royal Diaries cover artist Tim O'Brien.
