Long May She Reign: Now Available for Pre-Order
June 6th, 2007 by 
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Long May She Reign will not be released until October 30, 2007, but you can pre-order it at amazon now.
Meg Powers is the daughter of the President of the United States. She’s about to enter her first year of college. She’s living through the worst year of her life. In June, Meg was kidnapped by terrorists—brutalized, starved, and left for dead. She was shackled in a deserted mine shaft and had to smash the bones in her own hand to escape.
Meg Powers survived the unthinkable, the stuff of nightmares. Her terrorist captor is still at large. But still, she must live each day. Ahead of her is the grueling physical therapy to heal her broken body, and the challenge of leaving the safety of the White House for her freshman year at college.
But harder still than the physical and social challenges ahead are her shattered sense of self and her family. Will she ever forgive her mother, the President, for her “can not, have not, and will not negotiate with terrorists†stance—even when it came to her own daughter? And more difficult still, can Meg forgive herself for having the strength, the intelligence, and the wit to survive?
In a brilliant tour de force, Ellen Emerson White tells her most ambitious and intense story about a most unlikely, but deeply affecting heroine.
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June 26th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Do you plan on continuing the Meg Powers series past Long May She Reign? I would love to see what happens to Meg when she is an adult.
I have such fond memories of reading this series way back when in Junior High. You got me through a lot of boring study halls.
Good luck and I’m looking forward to October.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
It’s great to see this site up and running. Can’t wait for the release.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I cannot WAIT for the release of this and the Dana sequel. I hope you are doing well - we talked by e-mail a few years ago and it still makes my day. You are the coolest!
July 5th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Hello
Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!
G’night
July 10th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I read the first in the series in 4th grade, I read everything else you wrote in my youth and teens and then Ring Super in college…. I will be in line in a children’s section to buy this one, at the age of 32. I cannot wait to see what you have to say. Meg feels like a long lost friend…
July 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I love your books and have been beside myself with excitement since I first heard (over a year ago) that Long May She Reign would be out in October 2007.
Good luck & take care!!
July 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I just finished an advanced reader copy of Long May She Reign. It is fantastic. It honestly felt like Ellen just finished Long Live the Queen and then immediately wrote Long May She Reign. Meg’s voice is perfect and very true to herself. I definitely will be reading this again over the weekend. I can’t wait to buy my official copy.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Thanks for the kind thoughts!
I worked very hard on this book. To put it mildly.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I was so happy to see you’d started a website and blog; I remember when I first emailed with you, a couple of years ago after you responded to a review on Amazon I’d written, that you said you’d never do it!
The Internet sucks us all in, huh? Well, glad to see it, at any rate…
And, being the huge literary geek I am, I pre-ordered your new book several weeks ago. I’m really looking forward to it!
July 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am
I promised I’d try to be a Good Scout with this book–instead of my normal, reclusive, curmudgeonly self–and alas, that means the Internet these days.
What can you do?
The blogging sure doesn’t come naturally, though. Oy.
July 28th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Congratulations on your new book.
The characters in the series are
growing up, but they will never catch
up with me.
All my friends love your books, and
we will look forward to each new one.
Long May She Reign is terrific.
August 1st, 2007 at 3:32 am
This is amazing. Your Meg books are the books I remember most fondly from my childhood (I”m 32 now.). I read the first two books probably at least 8 times each…. most recently, just a few years ago! When President’s Daughter first came out, I bought it from some dinky mall bookstore. The next day, my best friend came over and told me about this great book her mom had just bought her. Guess what it was? So now, I’m almost finished with library school (second career already…short attention span), and I LOVE YA literature (but maybe not so much the YAs themselves….) and I got to wondering what you might be up to, and I found this site and the great news that a fourth book was coming out 23 years after the first! If I still knew where my fifth grade best friend lived, I’d be calling/emailing her up right this second and telling her to preorder Long May She Reign from Amazon RIGHT NOW just like I did.
I hope it goes well for you, and I am definitely interested in purchasing your “updated” copies of the first three books when they are released as well. Good luck! The Meg character has one of the most memorable voices of any YA literary character I have ever come across (and I read… STILL…. a TON of YA novels).
August 12th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I recently finished my advance copy (generously sent to me by a friend) and without giving anything away…it was EXCELLENT. I felt authentic in terms of Meg’s experiences and flowed with the previous books. It left me hungry for wanting ANOTHER book in the series.
Excellent job Ellen!
August 17th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Ok, I am kicking myself for not reading “Long Live The Queen”….I didn’t even know it existed until I Googled your other books just now. I just ordered it from Amazon.com(If the “internets” had been invented sooner this delay never would have happened…sigh). The good news is, I feel like I’ll be meeting an old friend I haven’t seen in years…
I loved loved loved the other two books in the series. I can’t wait for “Long May She Reign” to come out. Keep up the good work!! :0)
August 24th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I can’t wait!
August 28th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Long Live the Queen is maybe not as devil-may-care as the first two.
Except White House Autumn isn’t really full of joie-de-vivre, either, is it?
Hmmm. Why does anyone read these books? (she asked, pensively)
September 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Ellen,
I just found this site last night and was SOOOO excited to see LMSR is going to be out in a month. I had to promptly pre-order my copy. There are two series/authors that I adore, EEW and Diana Gabaldon’s Highlander series. Both you and Ms. Gabaldon share that witty, real, engaging style that I love. No other author I’ve read has managed to so thoroughly capture my attention and make me crave more. As others have said, it really feels like Meg is a long lost friend; I can’t wait to be reacquainted with her. I can’t wait!
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Add me to the list of folks who just found out that LMSR is coming out — the news just made my day! Like others who’ve posted about these books, I read my first copy of “The President’s Daughter” to tatters. I adored it and “White House Autumn”, then was stunned (in a good way) by “Long Live the Queen.” I loved that you didn’t sugar-coat anything.
Thanks!
October 4th, 2007 at 5:22 am
I think it is fair to say that absolutely nothing is sugar-coated in Long May She Reign.
Possibly to the book’s detriment, of course.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Just read Long May She Reign and loved it. Please tell me there will be a sequel. I would really like to see her progress further and her kidnappers brought to justice. Thanks again for a great follow up.
Dionne
November 5th, 2007 at 8:20 am
There may well be a sequel–although there are no definitive plans yet.
I’m really glad you enjoyed the book, though.
Ellen
November 5th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Ellen,
I also have to tell you how great a series this is starting with The President’s Daughter. I read the first book back when I was twelve. I’m (cough) in my mid-twenties now. I still love to read and Meghan’s story is one I never forgot. Even now, I still can’t pick up these books without her story replaying in my head for weeks. Even once I’ve distance myself I still can’t resist thinking of what ifs for this character and her family. I didn’t make the connection to Susan’s character until the story broke in the book what a great plot thickener! I, too, wonder if you do right another book (no rush but pretty please) if Preston and Meg might hook up?? There doesn’t seem to be that big of an age difference now, is there? Hmmm. I’ll just have to wait and see. Anyway, Thank you again for bringing her back. Just wanted you to know your writing is very real and touches the heart. As, Meg and Steven, would say wicked excellent.
Dionne
November 7th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I am still reading LMSR and loving it so much I’ve ordered all the other books in the series online from used booksellers. My first EEW book was The Road Home and I was enthralled with Rebecca’s character. I am sad that the Echo Company books are hard to find, so I am having my library find EC #3 from another library so I can read about what happened to Rebecca in that book (it is so rare that the lowest price used is $60!). Once I realized there was an entire book about Susan McAllister, I ordered the two Friends books online too. (I would buy all these books new if they were in print.) I am going to have to have an entire EEW section in my home library! I am so happy to have discovered your writing, Ellen. You are tops on my list of favorite authors. I hope so much that you will do a sequel to LMSR so we can see Meg develop into adulthood. Yes, I think it would be great for her to get together with Preston!!!