Recent Work
Meyer's latest work published is The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette, published April 2010. The status of another book previously expected in 2010, Cleopatra's Spell, is now unclear.
Her previous published work was The True Adventures of Charley Darwin, focusing on the life of Charles Darwin, quite a leap from her usual subjects, for she has gone from royalty, to European artists, and now to scientists. The True Adventures of Charley Darwin is unusual in that it breaks from Meyer's formula of always having a female narrator, as Charley narrates his own story. The hardcover version of this book was published on 26 January 2009. Before Darwin came In Mozart's Shadow, a historical novel about Mozart and narrated by his older sister, Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed Nannerl, released in 2008.
Meyer is currently working on a novel about Mary, Queen of Scots.
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