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Muse & Views: articles, thoughts and speculations by me, Helen Hollick, (and a few other nice people)Helen Hollickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.comBlogger1072125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-79840266722873288062024-03-19T03:00:00.068+00:002024-03-19T10:21:26.003+00:00Rachels' Random Resources: Secrets of the Shell Sisters by Adrienne Vaughan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIc8he0rc8o7xwga4BFDtqAFahuWLDLEgPIs5lIUpJWuOkLGgmLY5GPOQ3tAQlMi9JIjtURGukCJ-29944UcCRIVklQ-PZ-P90eXRN2tN7PsaVG1RxEqEyx62N_466IeBQmXSPWPJ9zH8f3EP4FTj4i9gGDK3KHAKKUjN4S7e9L3N007J3qEQ0lF5lu4/s700/Secrets%20of%20the%20Shell%20Sisters.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIc8he0rc8o7xwga4BFDtqAFahuWLDLEgPIs5lIUpJWuOkLGgmLY5GPOQ3tAQlMi9JIjtURGukCJ-29944UcCRIVklQ-PZ-P90eXRN2tN7PsaVG1RxEqEyx62N_466IeBQmXSPWPJ9zH8f3EP4FTj4i9gGDK3KHAKKUjN4S7e9L3N007J3qEQ0lF5lu4/w400-h158/Secrets%20of%20the%20Shell%20Sisters.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">“That’s like believing in Father Christmas,” he said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">“Or mermaids,” she replied, gravely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Meet the Morgans. Three very different sisters, who each blame themselves for their mother’s mysterious disappearance. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now over forty years on, they’re in crisis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Cassandra – the eldest – runs the family’s cliffside hotel. But the business is in trouble, and a secret from the past seems determined to resurface.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Greer – the youngest – walked away from a glittering career to live alone in London. Now she has no choice but to return to the family home – but what kind of welcome can she expect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And Orla – the middle sister – whose obsessive shell collecting and messages from the ‘sea-people’ dominate her life. But Orla knows things. She knows Greer is coming home to a new future, that Cassandra’s dark secret will change their lives and their mother never really left at all. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And there’s another secret, something they all share …but of course, nobody’s telling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Purchase Link - <a href="https://mybook.to/ShellSistersRRBk2"><b>https://mybook.to/ShellSistersRRBk2</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKxaOCwRbOROplxV0pNgtk21DGHKsP9O3nAcKRKe1Kj_jSu5XZ6-IcIf3nfp3NIoLAxU2dyTtplsoAid2-AoegnlxBBO0A-tlRCAlwCXBOKIm01VmG_bBfhUFNW0APFcbOz0u0eUkyNdYoYcm5_32SIvv6Q9CpEwfuABSaMh0v8XuFSOfkqPfpkirZATs/s1026/QR%20Code%20for%20Adrienne%20Amazon%20Page.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1026" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKxaOCwRbOROplxV0pNgtk21DGHKsP9O3nAcKRKe1Kj_jSu5XZ6-IcIf3nfp3NIoLAxU2dyTtplsoAid2-AoegnlxBBO0A-tlRCAlwCXBOKIm01VmG_bBfhUFNW0APFcbOz0u0eUkyNdYoYcm5_32SIvv6Q9CpEwfuABSaMh0v8XuFSOfkqPfpkirZATs/s320/QR%20Code%20for%20Adrienne%20Amazon%20Page.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrrKLM_lx90HtAZk0dT5EXUQbOr5nzBUx0fLgHhxWzQ-B-nLaZO6sMX3YhWeKy65l_UUx48Na_sVgvfGKZmVzFFCCuMz4JR1RK6GEjcKpI9J69WPYqiEoRCgWQlg_Oh_F82pZXnnMYUD7hVcB0UVG4Woksuhm7YYfoPmVWtMNfn3Y7CTe3RzjD3H0jQE/s3264/AV%20researching%20the%20Rosshaven%20Romance%20series.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrrKLM_lx90HtAZk0dT5EXUQbOr5nzBUx0fLgHhxWzQ-B-nLaZO6sMX3YhWeKy65l_UUx48Na_sVgvfGKZmVzFFCCuMz4JR1RK6GEjcKpI9J69WPYqiEoRCgWQlg_Oh_F82pZXnnMYUD7hVcB0UVG4Woksuhm7YYfoPmVWtMNfn3Y7CTe3RzjD3H0jQE/w400-h300/AV%20researching%20the%20Rosshaven%20Romance%20series.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Adrienne Vaughan writes spellbinding, page-turning romantic suspense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Her Heartfelt Series − <i>The Hollow Heart, A Change of Heart </i>and <i>Secrets of the Heart</i> – is set on an island off Ireland’s west coast and features a feisty investigative journalist, and her irresistible West Highland terrier. Adrienne studied at the Dublin College of Journalism and loves animals, especially dogs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Her collection of short stories and poetry, <i>Fur Coat & No Knickers</i> was shortlisted for the Irish Carousel Prize for Anthology and her WWII short story, <i>Dodo's Portrait</i>, was shortlisted for the Colm Toíbín International Short Story Award at the Wexford Literary Festival.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Secrets of the Shell Sisters </i>is the second in a series of sweeping family dramas, each with a touch of Irish magic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">All her books are heart-warming, uplifting reads, featuring her trademark gripping style, and laugh out loud moments.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Adrienne, husband Jonathan, and two cocker spaniels divide their time between rural Leicestershire, the Wicklow mountains, and coastal South Devon. Agatha Christie – the cat – takes care of things while they are away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">PS: Adrienne’s keeping everything crossed there's still time to realise her ambition to be a Bond girl.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Social Media Links – </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://twitter.com/adrienneauthor">https://twitter.com/adrienneauthor</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/adrienne.vaughan">https://www.instagram.com/adrienne.vaughan</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR4AIyNNdolmlWktRQB5IF8UssAziykZWsPmgX8MOA8iiWRUQCTiiQfKnvvZEBzp3tX_H9k5D8IoR5a80eawzF-R6fwJoggdF0Jk2mySn28K9wm1Fmxq2zzcbBM09goIY9XOr8XuJfaV_STQ32Ki6nOlCQJKkXO3W7uJkJ987-_9xCBZbz_E0H9zzpKE/s4724/SecretsofShellSisters_2023_frontcover_large300dpi%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4724" data-original-width="3228" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFR4AIyNNdolmlWktRQB5IF8UssAziykZWsPmgX8MOA8iiWRUQCTiiQfKnvvZEBzp3tX_H9k5D8IoR5a80eawzF-R6fwJoggdF0Jk2mySn28K9wm1Fmxq2zzcbBM09goIY9XOr8XuJfaV_STQ32Ki6nOlCQJKkXO3W7uJkJ987-_9xCBZbz_E0H9zzpKE/w274-h400/SecretsofShellSisters_2023_frontcover_large300dpi%20(1).jpg" width="274" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67XDqOEQw8VVJm-PPw81eKCoOlzDPcdy8NV_yzptlmB6ibqc_1RuBs96OroqFeIBkBC6pZALsxkO0_TeUveXXGsbCBMzMnksSiLL443oNCnbvqKh_0WThX6KJrzMRV6upawu-siDXcYPw8YjCUd9WZ8U-W_EltJ0Z5oRiNnWWzNa0H0CYnT9lmUJYLC8/s2037/Secrets%20of%20the%20Shell%20Sisters%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1714" data-original-width="2037" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67XDqOEQw8VVJm-PPw81eKCoOlzDPcdy8NV_yzptlmB6ibqc_1RuBs96OroqFeIBkBC6pZALsxkO0_TeUveXXGsbCBMzMnksSiLL443oNCnbvqKh_0WThX6KJrzMRV6upawu-siDXcYPw8YjCUd9WZ8U-W_EltJ0Z5oRiNnWWzNa0H0CYnT9lmUJYLC8/w400-h336/Secrets%20of%20the%20Shell%20Sisters%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.rachelsrandomresources.com/">https://www.rachelsrandomresources.com/</a><br /></b>@rararesources<br />#RachelsRandomResources</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-spotlight-guest-katherine-reay.html" target="_blank"> PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Brilliant and logical, she’s expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments—especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s—Luisa’s work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Journalist Haris Voekler grew up a proud East Berliner. But as his eyes open to the realities of postwar East Germany, he realizes that the Soviet promises of a better future are not coming to fruition. After the Berlin Wall goes up, Haris finds himself separated from his young daughter and all alone after his wife dies. There’s only one way to reach his family—by sending coded letters to his father-in-law who lives on the other side of the Iron Curtain.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When Luisa Voekler discovers a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead, she learns the truth about her grandfather’s work, her father’s identity, and why she has never progressed in her career. With little more than a rudimentary plan and hope, she journeys to Berlin and risks everything to free her father and get him out of East Berlin alive.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As Luisa and Haris take turns telling their stories, events speed toward one of the twentieth century’s most dramatic moments—the fall of the Berlin Wall and that night’s promise of freedom, truth, and reconciliation for those who lived, for twenty-eight years, behind the bleak shadow of the Iron Curtain’s most iconic symbol.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">BUY THE BOOK</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/harpermuse/the-berlin-letters/">https://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/harpermuse/the-berlin-letters/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Letters-Cold-War-Novel/dp/1400243068/">https://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Letters-Cold-War-Novel/dp/1400243068/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Letters-Cold-War-Novel/dp/1400243068/">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Letters-Cold-War-Novel/dp/1400243068/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Berlin-Letters-Cold-War-Novel/dp/1400243068/">https://www.amazon.ca/Berlin-Letters-Cold-War-Novel/dp/1400243068/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTIQLD76mZerPxeCGq4DNvgw5ItVW1uij5DWLJ7UwbygSGp7YFeBrKFPWAvGIheoL4R-wGC7XCQdMTOn5KnxvEsXBwVSi2WwObFmdTVGTQdjdIoLmZGj8jG75ZsupPrXT0101kd5-_MaywS9Tbj_uc0h2zZoyFYQJ6vOhqYzZgnNDh6qSSSB615GY_nkA/s950/ReayK_headshot%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="740" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTIQLD76mZerPxeCGq4DNvgw5ItVW1uij5DWLJ7UwbygSGp7YFeBrKFPWAvGIheoL4R-wGC7XCQdMTOn5KnxvEsXBwVSi2WwObFmdTVGTQdjdIoLmZGj8jG75ZsupPrXT0101kd5-_MaywS9Tbj_uc0h2zZoyFYQJ6vOhqYzZgnNDh6qSSSB615GY_nkA/s320/ReayK_headshot%20(3).jpg" width="249" /></a></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels and one work of nonfiction. 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Genre: young adult fiction, (contemporary crime, romance)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Print length: 220 pages (72K words)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Age range: This book is suitable for adults and teenagers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Trigger warnings: young people in peril; abusive family and stranger relationships, loss of parents</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Shed Girl</i> is a contemporary crime novel set in the small fictional town of Annie’s Court on Washington’s northern coast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Annie’s Court has a runaway problem. Runaways arrive and then they disappear. Juliet French, an old runaway herself, does tarot readings for petty cash at the Farmers Market. Across the market Tony LeCrosse sells toys. Juliet notices the runaways flock to LeCrosse. Just before they go missing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After witnessing the abduction of a young boy, Detective Benson Picard solicits Juliet’s help. Already determined to find the boy, she agrees to Benson’s terms. Juliet, a strong female lead, feels the danger in the cards when Tony LeCrosse invites her to a party. He wants her to entertain his guests with tarot readings. Juliet balks at the word “entertain” but agrees anyway. When Kyle shows up at LeCrosse’s party, Juliet’s spine “turns to stardust and fairies rush in.” The two team-up to find the missing kids. But Kyle has secrets of his own.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Amazon link: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mybook.to/ShedGirl">https://mybook.to/ShedGirl</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Goodreads link: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200215811-shed-girl">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200215811-shed-girl</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKe0bmmFLZ3b7Dr-ch9OUhUFtA-3ND439JaU6FVK02G3eQQubqImHDlRlpob9u0KFbSZmELq1gWHYCGsKdWTA7GTTowjHKjldN0KgzeX8tUxKvFbN2ph0g3ByuafGKwdF7I3Yhix46GuMyQ6Ma1lrc8w7ggj8WXVbwOIu16DYW5_9NbWXrGd3ceDoIg3Q/s2500/Shed%20Girl_Author%20picture.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKe0bmmFLZ3b7Dr-ch9OUhUFtA-3ND439JaU6FVK02G3eQQubqImHDlRlpob9u0KFbSZmELq1gWHYCGsKdWTA7GTTowjHKjldN0KgzeX8tUxKvFbN2ph0g3ByuafGKwdF7I3Yhix46GuMyQ6Ma1lrc8w7ggj8WXVbwOIu16DYW5_9NbWXrGd3ceDoIg3Q/w266-h400/Shed%20Girl_Author%20picture.png" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Milana Marsenich lives in Northwest Montana near Flathead Lake at the base of the beautiful Mission Mountains. She enjoys quick access to the mountains and has spent many hours hiking the wilderness trails with friends and dogs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As a natural listener and a therapist, she has witnessed amazing generosity and courage in others. She first witnessed this in her hometown of Butte, Montana, a mining town with a rich history and the setting for Copper Sky, her first novel. Copper Sky was chosen as a 2018 Spur Award finalist for Best Western Historical Novel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">She has an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling from Montana State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. She has previously published in <i>Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, The Polishing Stone, The Moronic Ox, BookGlow</i>, and <i>Feminist Studies</i>. She has a short story included in The Montana Quarterly book: <i>Montana, Warts and All</i>. She has three published novels, <i>Copper Sky, The Swan Keeper</i>, and <i>Beautiful Ghost</i>, and one popular history book, <i>Idaho Madams</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In addition to <i>Copper Sky </i>being a Spur Award finalist in 2018, <i>The Swan Keeper</i> was a Willa Award finalist in 2019, and her short story, <i>Wild Dogs</i>, won the Laura Award for short fiction in 2020. She is a member of Western Writers of America and of Women Writing the West.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Website: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://milanamarsenich.com/">https://milanamarsenich.com/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Twitter/X: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://twitter.com/milanamarsenich">https://twitter.com/milanamarsenich</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Facebook: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MilanaMarsenichAuthor/">https://www.facebook.com/MilanaMarsenichAuthor/</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuoAmi3EtGuWolU_mrS_LE-y-g9NVEcfwLhQmmKpgnuonq2PFRq-vzXZDYx56CfDEci8UWq0A1o-Fk7fU2LcN-dSRUWkaSa3DvPuXB7DiXA_YgJMWumeFcpt0Iw0fjcZLWbX9AOFOTISmQMaXeXImFEWJtuqS4kmvbbPvfKyPQvaFP4UKILXwOAYFnHXw/s978/Trusted%20Reviewer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="955" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuoAmi3EtGuWolU_mrS_LE-y-g9NVEcfwLhQmmKpgnuonq2PFRq-vzXZDYx56CfDEci8UWq0A1o-Fk7fU2LcN-dSRUWkaSa3DvPuXB7DiXA_YgJMWumeFcpt0Iw0fjcZLWbX9AOFOTISmQMaXeXImFEWJtuqS4kmvbbPvfKyPQvaFP4UKILXwOAYFnHXw/w195-h200/Trusted%20Reviewer.png" width="195" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYlw23e3D9m4mdsvwf0c9lHaaJjpUeINru7gmwMqc_LL2iDXcGJEv-HkYcbVbEfEJWvbJsIey_1yqINTy62CWQvYeos-vz84YJW1rN2gYSY6FSYEQoe6tHSOSyME8-X3NMxTxfylIsoqZd6er9qX3fsHqhnzyc5OJxZP-HgArQv10dCcexWnIhATM/s1280/girl-160172_1280.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYlw23e3D9m4mdsvwf0c9lHaaJjpUeINru7gmwMqc_LL2iDXcGJEv-HkYcbVbEfEJWvbJsIey_1yqINTy62CWQvYeos-vz84YJW1rN2gYSY6FSYEQoe6tHSOSyME8-X3NMxTxfylIsoqZd6er9qX3fsHqhnzyc5OJxZP-HgArQv10dCcexWnIhATM/w100-h200/girl-160172_1280.png" width="100" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>My review</b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">An interesting concept and on the whole an interesting read. The main characters, Juliet and Kyle, were well drawn, both having their secrets, doubts and fears, but also being strong, likeable young adults.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Both Juliet and Kyle are almost 18 years old, both are runaways struggling through their own difficult lives and their equally as difficult past - both reluctant to open up and share their lives and their secrets, but both are more concerned about the children that arrive at the harbourside town of Annie's Court - and then promptly disappear.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Juliet lives in an old shed with a cat (who rather steals several scenes), Kyle lives in a tent in an area near the woods set aside for the shelter of runaway boys, but there is conflict between him and another of the older boys, a conflict which does affect him, but his feelings for Juliet are growing, feelings which are mutual so does it matter that he has to leave the safety of the tents?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Kyle has a job washing dishes, Juliet augments her meagre finances by doing tarot readings at the local market, until one day the toymaker who also has a stall there invites her to a party to entertain his guests with her readings. She accepts for there is suspicion about Tony LeCrosse - children are drawn to his toys and then they disappear. Juliet, working undercover for a local policeman, and assisted by Kyle, is determined to find and rescue the missing children. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I enjoyed the read, I wanted to find out what happened to the children and I liked Juliet and Kyle, but there were a couple of things which very slightly niggled. The main one was that this is a very American book - no problem for American readers, but for this Brit some of the wording was baffling, along with the Americanisms (gotten, for instance)<i><u> but </u></i>that is my problem, not the author's!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Some of the scenes and action I found a little hard to believe, the two lead characters did all the work while the policeman only popped up now and then. One big problem I had: Juliet had a cell phone (mobile in the UK) - <i>how did she charge the thing up</i>? She had a small tape recorder as well: ditto how did she work the thing? Batteries? How could she afford batteries?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I wasn't convinced by her repeated visits to LeCrosse's parties, putting herself in danger without proper police backup and some information was repeated too much - both Juliet and Kyle's backgrounds for instance, and the repeated disappearances then re-appearances of the young girl (no spoilers!) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Maybe the cover is a little too 'busy'? Less is more would be the brief here - the hand holding the tarot cards is perfect, but the background confuses the issue and somewhat obliterates the text.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">However, this was a good read and I enjoyed the information about Juliet's tarot readings, these were excellently done. The main characters have great potential for further novels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">**** </span>4 stars</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/rachels-random-resources-tours-my-guest_14.html" target="_blank"> PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><p></p>
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text-align: justify;"><b>Time Waits for No One – Broken Wings book 5</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It's April 1944, England is preparing to take the war back into Europe and the girls of the Air Transport Auxiliary Mystery Club become mixed up in a desperate fight to save a dear friend from forces who would threaten the very existance of the country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The girls find solace in their deep friendship, even though the presence of a Nazi spy ring threatens their essential war work and their very lives.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Can love blossom through a fortunate meeting, and will they survive a period where life seems determined to put them in mortal danger? The girls find the strength to battle through all the war throws at them, whilst still keeping a stiff upper lip, a witty repartee, and unbreakable spirit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Purchase Links</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Amazon Universal link - <a href="http://mybook.to/TWFNO">mybook.to/TWFNO</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">iBook - <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3krdtr8r">tinyurl.com/3krdtr8r</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Nook - <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ppra6">tinyurl.com/ppra6</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ1etvYU6n5ZTjPgHsyQ3vw0pCpVDZ8Ywdntyc2RzIhagCYvZ0xrnE2vwNnh5Y7BTJLvQcIP4btfb4zuX-O36i29bM2hOunqLzteiG-bYCngmHkAKZ5uWQEOr-0xdhGBHm0cUIAhRMosKPTazfU0H4aHijzSxDcNDozv8fP5acEi6ssJLSbYpsHS-IAwU/s3873/Me1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2582" data-original-width="3873" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ1etvYU6n5ZTjPgHsyQ3vw0pCpVDZ8Ywdntyc2RzIhagCYvZ0xrnE2vwNnh5Y7BTJLvQcIP4btfb4zuX-O36i29bM2hOunqLzteiG-bYCngmHkAKZ5uWQEOr-0xdhGBHm0cUIAhRMosKPTazfU0H4aHijzSxDcNDozv8fP5acEi6ssJLSbYpsHS-IAwU/w400-h266/Me1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Mick is a hopeless romantic who was born in England and spent fifteen years roaming around the world in the pay of HM Queen Elisabeth II in the Royal Air Force before putting down roots and realizing how much he missed the travel. This, he’s replaced somewhat with his writing, including reviewing books and supporting fellow saga and romance authors in promoting their novels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">He’s the proud keeper of two cats bent on world domination, is mad on the music of the Beach Boys and enjoys the theatre and humoring his Manchester Utd supporting wife. Finally, and most importantly, Mick is a full member of the Romantic Novelists Association.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">His previous books published with The Wild Rose Press include <i>A Wing and a Prayer, Wild Blue Yonder, I’ll Be Home for Christmas</i>, and <i>In the Mood</i>, all part of his <i>Broken Wings</i> series on the ATA of WW2, and The Lumberjills.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Social Media Links – </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MWArnoldAuthor">https://www.facebook.com/MWArnoldAuthor</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Twitter – Mick859</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Instagram – Mick859</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wFZg-TISxoA" width="320" youtube-src-id="wFZg-TISxoA"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGdSQHs_fO-pQEn8VdWeK1pTbpx0zHiSQ3UpN6vKT9Iug7C5AsPlIfheJwjB8NI-JmbqhwP1ATQE6SR_YSryHZ45RT3Ech1pqGfsgdZ6jVi1ezmkZDd0wkgiCwvnESnNejRGmlhv0JThcOokiuFaCZv2MER21EFMHHz28jertLo7HSf9rB96Bx_fG_m4/s3250/Time%20Waits%20For%20No%20One%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3250" data-original-width="1250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGdSQHs_fO-pQEn8VdWeK1pTbpx0zHiSQ3UpN6vKT9Iug7C5AsPlIfheJwjB8NI-JmbqhwP1ATQE6SR_YSryHZ45RT3Ech1pqGfsgdZ6jVi1ezmkZDd0wkgiCwvnESnNejRGmlhv0JThcOokiuFaCZv2MER21EFMHHz28jertLo7HSf9rB96Bx_fG_m4/w154-h400/Time%20Waits%20For%20No%20One%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" width="154" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.rachelsrandomresources.com/">https://www.rachelsrandomresources.com/</a><br /></b>x/Twitter @rararesources<br />#RachelsRandomResources</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>< <a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/silver-dagger-book-tours-christer.html" target="_blank">PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<b>Acquittal?</b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Stockholm Sleuth
Series Book 5
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">by Christer Tholin</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Genre: Mystery,
Crime</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/acquittal-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="458" height="73" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/acquittal-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> A Swedish Crime Novel</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Umeå, Northern
Sweden: Willmar Björkman has been incarcerated for five years
after being found guilty on a murder charge; albeit unjustly
convicted according to his claims. From the very start, he has
adamantly maintained that he is innocent of the crime. Detectives
Lars and Elin are hired to find new evidence that casts doubt upon
the validity of the guilty verdict so that a retrial of his case can
be requested. Is that even possible now that so much time has passed?
The two detectives start asking around to dig up some new
information, but find themselves facing a wall of silence - nobody
seems interested in reopening the case. In fact, they themselves are
uncertain if Willmar is even innocent at all. But then the
coincidences begin to pile up and ultimately the investigation spins
completely out of control...</span></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ACQUITTAL? is the fifth,
standalone book from Christer Tholin’s Stockholm Sleuth
Series.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;">If you like fast-paced action and surprising
twists and turns, then you will love Christer Tholin's sleuth series.</div></span><p></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Buy ACQUITTAL? to see how this
suspenseful case is solved!</span></p>
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country road, there were no street lights out here. Tall trees stood to the
right and left. The snow that lay under the trees did nothing to brighten it.
The asphalt was glistening from the wetness, at least Elin hoped that it was
water and not ice, because the temperature was around freezing. Once the sun
set, the thermometer could quickly drop a few degrees, and then there could be
black ice on the ground after the rain. She slowed down - forty-five miles per
hour were allowed here. She preferred to go slower than that, especially around
the curves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 125%;">The lights
from oncoming vehicles were blinding. Every time a car came along, she had to
concentrate to stay in her lane. She slowed down even further and now was only
driving thirty-five miles per hour. That didn't suit the man behind, he flashed
his lights at her several times. Now she was also blinded by the light from the
side mirrors. Finally, he overtook after a curve. Well, at least he couldn't
bother her anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 125%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">For a
while everything went fine, she slowly began to relax, but she still maintained
a reduced speed. After the idiot from before, there had been no more cars
behind her, but now she noticed a car slowly getting closer. Judging from the
lighting, it had to be a bigger vehicle. Why did he have to drive like that on
this road? She fully understood that the locals knew this road well and could
probably judge the weather conditions better than she could, but nevertheless,
you should probably still be a little more careful when driving a truck. Well,
she had to concede, if he was carrying a heavy load, he probably had little to
worry about, even if it was a little slippery. In Stockholm, until recently,
the buses didn't even have winter tires; they all had all-season tires to save
costs. Only last year did they start to gradually change over the tires,
because there had been a few accidents. After each bend, the lights disappeared
behind Elin, only to reappear on the next straight stretch, and a little faster
each time - the distance between them was rapidly shrinking. Elin kept glancing
nervously in the rearview mirror, she hated it when people tailgated. It was
indeed a truck, one of those giant ones, and now he was driving close behind
her, flashing his lights. Just what she had been afraid of. She felt compelled
to drive a little faster, but she didn't go beyond forty. Unfortunately, it
didn't help, the truck was still sticking like glue to her. If she had to brake
for any reason now, he'd probably run her off the road. Elin hoped that after
the next curve there was a clear stretch again so that the guy could pass her.
She was uncomfortable with this brightly lit monster clinging to her tail.
Trees on either side, blinding lights from the front, and that idiot with all
the horsepower tailgating. Carefully she went around the bend - yes, there was
a longer clear stretch coming up here, and at the moment there was no oncoming
traffic. Furthermore, there was now a small slope on the right side, which
increased the distance to the forest and made the road look a little brighter.
Elin could only hope that the driver of the truck would take this chance. She
looked in the rearview mirror - yeah, he flashed his lights and pulled his
vehicle into the left lane. Elin took her foot off the gas and the truck pulled
alongside her. It was one of those trucks that transported lumber, fully loaded
and with a trailer.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 125%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> They all sped through here like jackasses, the speed limits
didn't seem to apply to them. Water splashed onto her car from the side, her
vision was blurred for a brief moment, then the windshield wiper swept over it
and she could see the road in front of her again. The truck was halfway past
her now but seemed to be slowing down. Elin checked her speedometer, it was thirty-five,
which made her wonder if the truck was running out of steam? Irritated, she
looked ahead, luckily no oncoming traffic. She reduced her speed even more,
which allowed the truck to move past her a bit more. But what was he doing now?
What the hell, he was braking! The red brake lights shone brightly. And now he
pulled over towards her side. Why? The tree trunks were coming menacingly
closer, Elin honked the horn and slammed down on her brake. She felt the rear
of her car swerve, while all that was visible in front of her were wheels and
wood. The truck cut her off! In a panic, she turned to the right. At that
moment her Volvo got a bump in the front and was pushed even further towards
the roadside. She pressed on the brakes with all her might, but despite this,
she was still getting closer and closer to the downhill slope. She would bring
the car to a stop in a moment, just in time. But then the Volvo got a bump from
behind and slid down the slope. Snow, trees - Elin screamed. The Volvo spun,
the wheels hitting some obstacle. Then the car overturned - the last thing Elin
saw was her airbag deploying</span><span lang="EN-US">.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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was raised in the North of Germany, Schleswig-Holstein. After having
spent years in Berlin / Germany, Brighton /UK and Budapest / Hungary,
he has now been living in Stockholm / Sweden for almost two decades.</span></span></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As a crime-story aficionado of
long standing, Christer always wanted to write detective stories of
his own that would not only be exciting, but that would also be set
against the backdrop of the natural beauty of Sweden - and that would
afford him the opportunity to portray Swedish society as seen through
the eyes of a foreigner. The result: his "Stockholm Sleuth
Series."</span></p>
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font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="line-height: 20.7px;">My Fair Lord</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A Gilded Age Retelling of My Fair Lady</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Arriving into English society from the drawing rooms of New York, Miss Florence Wakechild desires nothing less than the marriage her father is so desperately seeking for her. Clayton Wakechild desires nothing more than finding a suitable husband for his daughter – a husband of noble birth and title no less. No ‘new money’ here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Frustrated with her father’s obsession with the British aristocracy, Florence comes up with a plan. If she can train an ordinary working man to behave like a viscount and fool her father, she can prove to him a title is meaningless.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It’s a straightforward plan, but the man Florence chooses is Ned Blake, a man who will open her eyes in a way she couldn’t have imagined. As Ned’s hands gently guide her across the ballroom floor, the last thing Florence expects to feel is something… real.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">With his past catching up with him, Ned seizes the opportunity to lie low, if only briefly, but will the secrets he’s keeping destroy the chance of happiness he’d never imagined?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Purchase Link - <a href="https://mybook.to/MyFairLord">https://mybook.to/MyFairLord</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk76TWCi4R-Sxr095cdKFOxwWMwy7FlY5V_WPQtehfJc34urqLyafVlesMRkOu1C5LuBbrWv_Vh1f5N06IeWcyMBSlBUY6wkHoPlV9jyvCcO1m2lcG9-sD442O5Gn601NvuY-wWU2H_IPNwu0zhm77TWm1k0OD2-ILl8pkeN1laq9J4ugo82HRgFx6l4A/s2249/Elisabeth%20Hobbes%20sparkly%20background.jpg" style="font-weight: 400; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2249" data-original-width="1588" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk76TWCi4R-Sxr095cdKFOxwWMwy7FlY5V_WPQtehfJc34urqLyafVlesMRkOu1C5LuBbrWv_Vh1f5N06IeWcyMBSlBUY6wkHoPlV9jyvCcO1m2lcG9-sD442O5Gn601NvuY-wWU2H_IPNwu0zhm77TWm1k0OD2-ILl8pkeN1laq9J4ugo82HRgFx6l4A/w283-h400/Elisabeth%20Hobbes%20sparkly%20background.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;">About the Author</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Elisabeth writes romantic Historical fiction as Elisabeth Hobbes and Historical folklore/fantasy romance as Elisabeth J. Hobbes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">She teaches Primary school but would love to write full time because unlike five-year-olds her characters generally do what she tells them. She spends most of her spare time reading and is a pro at cooking one-handed while holding a book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Elisabeth hails from York but lives in Cheshire because the car broke down there in 1999 and she never left. Elisabeth has two almost grown kids, two cats, two dogs and a husband. The whole family are on the autistic spectrum and that probably includes the pets! 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text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Series: The Henrician Chronicle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Author: Judith Arnopp</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Publication Date: 2nd February 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Publisher: independently published</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Page Length: 302</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">With youth now far behind him, King Henry VIII has only produced one infant son and two bastard daughters. More sons are essential to secure the Tudor line and with his third wife, Jane Seymour dead, Henry hunts for a suitable replacement.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After the break from Rome, trouble is brewing with France and Scotland. Thomas Cromwell arranges a diplomatic marriage with the sister of the Duke of Cleves but when it comes to women, Henry is fastidious, and the new bride does not please him. The increasingly unpredictable king sets his sights instead upon Katherine Howard and instructs Cromwell to free him from the match with Cleves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Failure to rid the king of his unloved wife could cost Cromwell his head.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Henry, now ailing and ageing, is invigorated by his flighty new bride but despite the favours he heaps upon her, he cannot win Katherine’s heart. A little over a year later, broken by her infidelity, she becomes the second of his wives to die on the scaffold, leaving Henry friendless and alone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But his stout heart will not surrender and leaving his sixth wife, Katheryn Parr, installed as regent over England, Henry embarks on a final war to win back territories lost to the French more than a century before. Hungry for glory, the king is determined that the name Henry VIII will shine brighter and longer than that of his hero, Henry V.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Told from the king’s perspective, <i>A Matter of Time: Henry VIII: the Dying of the Light </i>shines a torch into the heart and mind of England’s most tyrannical king.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Buy Links:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Universal Buy Links to the three titles in the series:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A Matter of Conscience: <a href="https://mybook.to/amoc">https://mybook.to/amoc</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A Matter of Faith: <a href="https://mybook.to/amofaith">https://mybook.to/amofaith</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A Matter of Time: <a href="https://mybook.to/amot">https://mybook.to/amot</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_hA91HHUn-fy3ZjHyNtDZUzS-LxLl3ipdU9S7x7Rem_ZaYeFawcNR8M_fWkufTaydgIo2u974XT2do8-QR8CIU3RlB4surebW8NtDCnAZAtLcw7LyvbZgm4mY47J5XXrN_PPDCpq5LLyoChw6VhI49bsJB2HmVSjUpAAbNqStG4cBDj1YGAqWzeRU5Q/s480/IG%20banner%202%20A%20Matter%20of%20Time.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr_hA91HHUn-fy3ZjHyNtDZUzS-LxLl3ipdU9S7x7Rem_ZaYeFawcNR8M_fWkufTaydgIo2u974XT2do8-QR8CIU3RlB4surebW8NtDCnAZAtLcw7LyvbZgm4mY47J5XXrN_PPDCpq5LLyoChw6VhI49bsJB2HmVSjUpAAbNqStG4cBDj1YGAqWzeRU5Q/w400-h400/IG%20banner%202%20A%20Matter%20of%20Time.png" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b></b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqgzssX5lAxMnlAjASljyU_dbcEFZi-E4GrtwACePMqcN9YDRmUuTtQpRgn4lNxlQppgmx9k0erodtjCgrLMsTBtXAJLuM3YjR_PaZ6kOUWR4ZOaZC0sLnjPp7hhJBggtm81dWPSBk3tSPEJmdjCw_dHE9gJmFCSFSv5MNrcAvz7xS5lbIB6v9q7LHwGk/s1280/snippet%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1280" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqgzssX5lAxMnlAjASljyU_dbcEFZi-E4GrtwACePMqcN9YDRmUuTtQpRgn4lNxlQppgmx9k0erodtjCgrLMsTBtXAJLuM3YjR_PaZ6kOUWR4ZOaZC0sLnjPp7hhJBggtm81dWPSBk3tSPEJmdjCw_dHE9gJmFCSFSv5MNrcAvz7xS5lbIB6v9q7LHwGk/s320/snippet%201.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SHARING A SNIPPET....<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>A Matter of Time</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>August 1541 Henry at Lincoln taking recompense for the recent uprising</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The people are waiting to receive us. The gentry, the mayor, and citizens of Lincoln, and the clergy of the cathedral. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Traitors all, who should rightly be hanged for their crimes. I take my stand and look coldly above their heads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One by one, the various groups come forward. The clergy is first; their chosen leader makes a hesitant speech, a speech full of regret, full of apology. A speech that begs my forgiveness. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I would like to draw my sword and strike off his head, but I have already spied the coffer that he means to bestow upon me by way of recompense. He hands me a rolled copy of his apology and I accept it and, without reading, I hand it to Norfolk. Everyone kneels; only the queen and I are left standing. I look across the bowed heads of the company to the sky where crows are circling, and the pennants of the city hang limp in the bright blue sky.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">“Jesus save Your Grace!” they cry, while I look on dispassionately. A te deum begins, the voices of the choir soaring to the heavens. Katherine turns to look at me, and my eyes soften, as they always do when I look upon her. I was wrong to be displeased with her earlier. What does it matter if she is a little impetuous, a little lacking in discipline? She is young; it is all part of her charm. Too soon, she will grow up, and her passion for life will be dampened, her limbs will stiffen with ague, she will be old before she knows it. She should enjoy life while she is still young enough to dance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvhVvY2w1zdwnZV1Ur4fMFs33zAtzIrnRmktuEw9IIAa_OTx6mSnvNVBsfVwYIMRweFNuIwz0xCVr4C74nGSeIZYnf66-EF-3LwBAdEXjCydnMsZ3wUfooaVHyV71X6nMlLiZ8ZbZCwmWeh6QwdMxvIxMveH7FyEp5vEknjixbAJwtFx_mLqB_BQRhi4/s640/Judith%20Arnopp%20Pembroke.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvhVvY2w1zdwnZV1Ur4fMFs33zAtzIrnRmktuEw9IIAa_OTx6mSnvNVBsfVwYIMRweFNuIwz0xCVr4C74nGSeIZYnf66-EF-3LwBAdEXjCydnMsZ3wUfooaVHyV71X6nMlLiZ8ZbZCwmWeh6QwdMxvIxMveH7FyEp5vEknjixbAJwtFx_mLqB_BQRhi4/w300-h400/Judith%20Arnopp%20Pembroke.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A lifelong history enthusiast and avid reader, Judith holds a BA in English/Creative writing and an MA in Medieval Studies. She lives on the coast of West Wales where she writes both fiction and non-fiction. She is best known for her novels set in the Medieval and Tudor period, focusing on the perspective of historical women but recently she has been writing from the perspective of Henry VIII himself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Judith is also a founder member of a re-enactment group called The Fyne Companye of Cambria which is when she began to experiment with sewing historical garments. She now makes clothes and accessories both for the group and others. She is not a professionally trained sewer but through trial, error and determination has learned how to make authentic looking, if not strictly historically accurate clothing. Her non-fiction book, <i>How to Dress like a Tudor </i>was published by Pen and Sword in 2023.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Her novels include:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Song of Sixpence: the story of Elizabeth of York</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Beaufort Chronicle: the life of Lady Margaret Beaufort (three book series)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII, the Aragon Years (Book One of The Henrician Chronicle)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Matter of Faith: Henry VIII, the Days of the Phoenix (Book Two of The Henrician chronicle)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, the Dying of the Light (Book Three, Coming soon)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Kiss of the Concubine: a story of Anne Boleyn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Winchester Goose: at the court of Henry VIII</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Intractable Heart: the story of Katheryn Parr</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sisters of Arden: on the Pilgrimage of Grace</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Heretic Wind: the life of Mary Tudor, Queen of England</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Peaceweaver</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Forest Dwellers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Song of Heledd</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Previously published under the pen name – J M Ruddock.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Book of Thornhold</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Daughter of Warwick: the story of Anne Neville, Queen of Richard III</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Website: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.judithmarnopp.com">www.judithmarnopp.com</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Blog: <a href="http://www.juditharnoppnovelist.blogspot.co.uk/">http://www.juditharnoppnovelist.blogspot.co.uk/</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Twitter: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://twitter.com/JudithArnopp">https://twitter.com/JudithArnopp</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Facebook: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thetudorworldofjuditharnopp">https://www.facebook.com/thetudorworldofjuditharnopp</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">LinkedIn: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/judith-arnopp-ba999025">www.linkedin.com/in/judith-arnopp-ba999025</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Instagram:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tudor_juditharnopp">https://www.instagram.com/tudor_juditharnopp</a>/ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Threads:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.threads.net/@tudor_juditharnopp">https://www.threads.net/@tudor_juditharnopp</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bluesky: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jarnopp.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/jarnopp.bsky.social</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pinterest: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jarnopp/">https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jarnopp/</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Book Bub: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/judith-arnopp">https://www.bookbub.com/profile/judith-arnopp</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Amazon Author Page: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://author.to/juditharnoppbooks">https://author.to/juditharnoppbooks</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Goodreads: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4088659.Judith_Arnop">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4088659.Judith_Arnop</a>p </div><div><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cooee Baby by Charles Moberly</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">contemporary adult fiction</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><i>Why can’t anyone say what they mean? Why is my mother a Tyrannosaurus? Why did she give me such a stupid name?</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Welcome to the world of Asperger's, remote tribes, movies, and astrophysics.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Why I wrote it</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>by Charles Moberly</b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All my novels are different in style, genre, and the way I
prepare for them. I like a challenge and want my new characters to be nothing
like my previous ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So <i>Cooee Baby </i>was bound to be different again. I was drawn
towards writing a novel about a female character who is strong but flawed. I decided that my dominant lead should have
Asperger’s Syndrome, not as an affliction, but to amplify her powerful but
narrow talents. I wanted something
life-changing to happen to her which, although frightening, would make her draw
on those strengths to pull her through.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very slightly, I was inspired by Lisbeth Salander in Stieg
Larsson’s<i> Millenium Trilogy</i> and by Saga Noren in <i>The Bridge</i>. Both are gifted
but have eccentricities which can be both disruptive and comical.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_Dil8w0NoOx2NGBwbea88G7ClS7ypTXDmg9CaJCZPTkx32WoAZasfsa6rk0en5SQTxryTpUxb5Ys9uxoCF-WFZnkd-Yu1olJGMIEe6ns6BsrPiTXRRWf3Ojyg4pxSnKtUUja7L0eqMU7hOzDFgtmLKI9wxdRszTeg32LD_sJQ2L7sfeLfhVlJqc-_o4/s576/CooeeBaby-3D-eReader-WEB.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="392" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_Dil8w0NoOx2NGBwbea88G7ClS7ypTXDmg9CaJCZPTkx32WoAZasfsa6rk0en5SQTxryTpUxb5Ys9uxoCF-WFZnkd-Yu1olJGMIEe6ns6BsrPiTXRRWf3Ojyg4pxSnKtUUja7L0eqMU7hOzDFgtmLKI9wxdRszTeg32LD_sJQ2L7sfeLfhVlJqc-_o4/w273-h400/CooeeBaby-3D-eReader-WEB.png" width="273" /></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What’s it about?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Awhina Fernandez is a young scientist at Cambridge University
with a potentially brilliant career ahead of her. She has a strong sense of
humour but the social skills of a rhinoceros. She has difficulty making
friends, publicly lampoons her professor, and quarrels with her mother. But her
talents are starting to be recognised by the scientific community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After an on-off relationship with an older man on the other
side of the world, she does something stupid which results in a horrendous
accident. That takes her into a remote and terrifying environment. Her natural
defiance makes her play badass, which is risky. Her adventures take her on a
journey which could lead her to a glamorous new career, but does she want it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Cooee Baby</i> is a psychological work of fiction, with elements
of a thriller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Any more will be plot spoiling!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How I wrote it<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Cooee Baby</i> has eleven parts. All but two of them are narrated
by Awhina herself. When the second most important character, Rachel, appears
two thirds of the way through, I use a technique which I employed in my second
novel, The Corncrake. Narration is batted back and forth between the two
characters in rapid succession, without announcing who is narrating. That is
done by a variety of techniques, the most important being the characters’
unique “voices”. This enables the reader to understand immediately what each
character is thinking, without third party narrator intrusion. It is
particularly useful for revealing misunderstandings.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buy links</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://mybook.to/28uBL3F " target="_blank"><b>universal link</b></a></span></span></p><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.266em;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooee-Baby-Charles-Moberly-ebook/dp/B0CV5GQ1VY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UDTIXPP0VL15&keywords=Charles+Moberly&qid=1707402116&s=digital-text&sprefix=charles+moberly%2Cdigital-text%2C151&sr=1-1">Amazon UK</a><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.266em;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.266em;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cooee-Baby-Charles-Moberly-ebook/dp/B0CV5GQ1VY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Q2N4DCFGYVED&keywords=Cooee+Baby&qid=1707404788&s=digital-text&sprefix=cooee+baby%2Cdigital-text%2C515&sr=1-1">Amazon US</a><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.266em;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.266em;"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Cooee-Baby-Charles-Moberly-ebook/dp/B0CV5GQ1VY/ref=sr_1_2?crid=29A515BRHV2P9&keywords=cooee+baby+charles+moberly&qid=1707404874&sprefix=cooee+baby+charles+moberly%2Caps%2C176&sr=8-2">Amazon Canada</a><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 1.266em;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Cooee-Baby-Charles-Moberly-ebook/dp/B0CV5GQ1VY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NK98PLLSKVRW&keywords=cooee+baby&qid=1707404944&s=digital-text&sprefix=cooee+baby%2Cdigital-text%2C280&sr=1-1">Amazon Australia</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAgT-3FN1kogNbPi1v653_TD0DJWdIb6edG6f388n9CIqGHf4bZaDk_4Gm85H5zzfcn6ewnguHhOBUEErEAeEXXgsHvqnhfFE45IyU79wsPYE6H7B50unxT6YdA1uc1lQZtd9u75KTLS2ov2hAysXF0uptA8r2UjGQ1JstxRECA1BDKuft_KHaQ4jkBg/s2048/244047483_103035938822201_5800457100175849329_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1330" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAgT-3FN1kogNbPi1v653_TD0DJWdIb6edG6f388n9CIqGHf4bZaDk_4Gm85H5zzfcn6ewnguHhOBUEErEAeEXXgsHvqnhfFE45IyU79wsPYE6H7B50unxT6YdA1uc1lQZtd9u75KTLS2ov2hAysXF0uptA8r2UjGQ1JstxRECA1BDKuft_KHaQ4jkBg/w260-h400/244047483_103035938822201_5800457100175849329_n.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Charles has now published four novels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>The Scrotum Toad</i>, is a satirical comedy. It won a Chill with a Book Reader Award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>The Corncrake </i>is a historical novel set in 1909-10 and 1914-15, It won a Chill with a Book Premier Award. In <i>The Corncrake</i>, four members of a family share the narration. This powerful technique allows the reader to enter the minds of the characters as they react to events, so that love, conflicts and misunderstandings are conveyed immediately. This is only possible if the voices of the characters are so strong that they are identifiable the moment they speak.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Try the Leopard’s Mouth</i> is a romantic thriller with a firm historical base. It won a Historical Fiction Company Highly Recommended Award and a Chill with a Book Reader Award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Cooee Baby</i> defies genres. The main character suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, but is highly talented. A life-changing event the other side of the world leads her to terrifying adventures.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Charles lived and worked in Africa for two years, which explains why two of his novels are set there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In his writing, he loves tension arising from misunderstandings and how cultural differences can tear people apart, yet unite them through a common humanity. He believes that no two characters should ever have the same voice. He writes in the vernacular of the time and place, using slang where appropriate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He now lives in the UK.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Amazon author page : <a href="https://viewauthor.at/CharlesMoberly">https://viewauthor.at/CharlesMoberly</a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Other novels by Charles Moberly</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicjwCV_Jz7GP5rqQ-EKBXxjPZXUIF7Caf5eYeYr29orbreKKfXze176O47OofRIMNoc4gnBW-wpGpXcoFquykEq4vUUJgcihqdIY0J_p14r7bO56Vlurbz-wdR8zEHFtaLRUgYtH3lmNh0Mjb48IjD5jHIVrRgpCmawBCJRAjgunC0hVJM0cnv6NvlTG0/s1200/Charles7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Helen Hollickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-33271177914276621192024-03-10T03:00:00.123+00:002024-03-10T03:00:00.135+00:00Exploring the world of imaginative fiction - with Marian L Thorpe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8ZgbTN81paIyyCA7JfQ3rrUOBervs6bL-uBNZqnVN8tJriFTMo6feYvsFcM75d7dZ86O2q_gdREBqL7KG7SSbKUcQe5DjgoDHZrdGOZWxxc-rtelnXkdILD4j0v9qMHiWJ-BR6F0eiigC29uX0UtNgeYwRVZQ14y3Lv3-hmpQMC5HpQzph2fr2KRm58/s851/March%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="851" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8ZgbTN81paIyyCA7JfQ3rrUOBervs6bL-uBNZqnVN8tJriFTMo6feYvsFcM75d7dZ86O2q_gdREBqL7KG7SSbKUcQe5DjgoDHZrdGOZWxxc-rtelnXkdILD4j0v9qMHiWJ-BR6F0eiigC29uX0UtNgeYwRVZQ14y3Lv3-hmpQMC5HpQzph2fr2KRm58/w400-h148/March%202024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Let's explore</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>with </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Marian L Thorpe</b></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rBMtGJ7UREaekB2bRVU6TmP__AmdT98igb2NwTS3fj6XKtkewZ4w98xqTDCVn-xVUe5EPJay71cGOQMGYb5PP3YAE9S_iMP1ybrWfYjV_tT3r8ztt2kMB6tcxkld06fusm6OQ2XiTmA/s720/wandering+1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rBMtGJ7UREaekB2bRVU6TmP__AmdT98igb2NwTS3fj6XKtkewZ4w98xqTDCVn-xVUe5EPJay71cGOQMGYb5PP3YAE9S_iMP1ybrWfYjV_tT3r8ztt2kMB6tcxkld06fusm6OQ2XiTmA/s320/wandering+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Welcome to my Blog!</b><br />Wander through wonderful worlds<br />real and fictional,<br />meet interesting people,<br />visit exciting places<br />and find a few good books<br />to enjoy along the way!<br /><br /></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s1357" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1357" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>About the Books</b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">With the publication of<i> Empire’s Passing</i> (Feb 2024) Marian’s <i>Empire’s Legacy</i> series of eight books is complete. In a unique blend of historical and speculative fiction, the series follows four main characters: the fisherwoman Lena, the scholar Cillian, the musician Sorley, and the soldier Druisius, as they meet the challenges of their time, as warriors, diplomats, spies and leaders.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Bound by vows of loyalty and love, they have little chance to succeed. But winning a war is only the beginning of saving a land, and what might lie after victory will demand secrecy and sacrifice too – not only of the four, but of the next generation as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Empire’s Legacy</i> is a saga of choices, betrayals, intrigue, and love, where some battles of power and politics are won with swords – and some with words.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDOFX5KfvwpB0Tmzhgy1oIjOZMtS0osctBvf2TQ2ML05LtI0Hb5hY8L0eH1KiL_-pHUacIXJVetuWEIflH-pwbFlvhZzN3fN63hSsk6mZllBaVpEEfpNa1XDo6zvUAe0fZrYpOCgT2D9xrUeM4OkIGqkwzBbBtpJ5Yo02oJ0a4KJe5HG8ulRy4OV48Ns/s400/51h9u9iST2L._SY445_SX342_.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="262" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDOFX5KfvwpB0Tmzhgy1oIjOZMtS0osctBvf2TQ2ML05LtI0Hb5hY8L0eH1KiL_-pHUacIXJVetuWEIflH-pwbFlvhZzN3fN63hSsk6mZllBaVpEEfpNa1XDo6zvUAe0fZrYpOCgT2D9xrUeM4OkIGqkwzBbBtpJ5Yo02oJ0a4KJe5HG8ulRy4OV48Ns/w263-h400/51h9u9iST2L._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://books2read.com/u/bPgyRR" target="_blank">First in the series</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="text-align: justify;">Transmutation by </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Marian L Thorpe </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We’d just rounded a hairpin bend somewhere in Spain’s Sierra Nevadas when half a dozen creamy-brown animals crossed the road in front of us. Luckily, what I said was drowned out by shouts from other participants in the nature tour we were on. They said, loudly, ‘Ibex!’ I said, quietly (thank goodness), “gemzē!”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">“Gemzē” is my fictional name for the ibex-like animals my characters encounter in my third book, <i>Empire’s Exile</i>. But this blurring of my fictional world, based heavily on Europe’s geography and ecology (as well as to a lesser extent on its history and political boundaries) with the real world is an amusing, but real, side effect of having spent much on my mental life for the past twenty-five years and more in a parallel universe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A geography question on University Challenge? I have to translate Qipërta and Odïrya into Albania and Bulgaria, and quickly enough to get the answer out before the brilliant young minds on the show. (It never happens – the aging synapses don’t move fast enough to retrieve the information, let alone make the switch from my fictional countries to the real ones.) A question on Roman Emperors? Same problem. Even if I know the answer is Trajan, I’m likely to say Ulpius. And it’s Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, not Catilius’s Contemplations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Some years ago I wrote, in an urban fantasy short story: ‘it's just a different reality, overlaying the everyday…these streets, these fields...for much of my life I've held two realities in my mind: the world we all walk in, and the world I walk in my dreams.’ I had no idea, at the time, that I was describing exactly how I would come to see at least part of the world, the part I have tweaked into the lands of my books.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I set out to create a world that felt historical, felt real, felt familiar, so that the changes in societal structures and values that my books are built around are just about the only thing that’s challenging the reader. I didn’t want to ask the reader to consider questions about the role of women, about the price of victory, about the meaning of family and the power and limitations of love, at the same time as having to accept sentient mice or learn a whole new geography.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There are some inconsistencies in this perception, places where the real has a firm grip. England is England, not my fictional Ésparias. But once (in real life) I’m just a bit north of the Scottish border, the imaginary has a tendency to take over – and north of the Highland Line, it’s my land of Linrathe I’m seeing. Up on the northern edge of Scotland, I’m in Sorham, with the curlews crying and the seals barking, and the broch on my character Sorley’s home soil standing against the sea.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When I began the series (without knowing it was going to be a series) I simply based the opening scenes on places I knew: a bit of Anglesey, a bit of Dorset. That there was a wall in the north of this country, dividing it from a historic enemy also just slipped into place. I am both a countrywoman and a fairly competent field naturalist (and a bit of a landscape historian) so the details of the landscape came naturally. So did most of the history – or the ‘what if’ version of history: what if, in a country that looks a lot like England, a version of the Roman Empire had continued? What if the country north of the wall is a source of maintained learning and history, not through Celtic Christianity and its abbeys, but through secular schools? What if disease and depopulation (and an impassible mountain range) had cut off this western edge of the world from the civilizations of the east? I can stand on the eastern edge of England, looking out over the North Sea and drowned Doggerland, and see in my mind the mountains I put in its place, as if the landmass of the British Isles had rammed itself against Europe with extreme force, pushing up peaks both high and wide—a barrier more formidable than any sea. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It's easy to accept this: it really is only a problem when trying to answer trivia questions or recall the name of a Roman emperor (or the proper name for an ibex!). But as I begin, very tentatively, to dip a toe into the waters of the next book(s), I’m more conscious of the process of overlaying the real world with my parallel one. I can’t say too much (in part because I don’t know very much) but they will involve a trading guild similar to the Hanseatic League, and take place in an analogue of 12th to 13th century Europe. The market town of King’s Lynn, the closest town of any size to where I spend my winters, had Hanse connections, and, coincidentally, was once essentially two towns with parallel markets and minsters and harbours, similar to my fictional Casille (if for different reasons). I know Lynn reasonably well – but already, the town I see now as I walk its medieval streets isn’t quite the town I saw two years ago. It’s carrying another town over top (or underneath?), one that doesn’t exist anywhere except in my mind, and a few lines in an exploratory short story. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But one thing didn’t change between the real world and my imaginary one: every bird I mention carries either its (real) common or dialect name – assuming the first-person narrator knows it! But even when he or she doesn’t, the description is recognizable to a birder. Some things, it appears, my mind finds immutable! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6WUyvcdYSNo3nsUACOnS37E7X9kRNwDSh0XxvizgNWfy_FJeaUdv9i3STlxBbV_WLiZo1JrQnMLpay7da7TTjV2oJAbYKqRiQAKbvzmtxUD5ozGBTWV1cbCNR2AJpkYoOSeaiZek_OCnTA6sWE_6QsFhgDNDNbXqpdzFOnqENQsAb97G0uCGiY7uti8/s987/Author%20headshot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6WUyvcdYSNo3nsUACOnS37E7X9kRNwDSh0XxvizgNWfy_FJeaUdv9i3STlxBbV_WLiZo1JrQnMLpay7da7TTjV2oJAbYKqRiQAKbvzmtxUD5ozGBTWV1cbCNR2AJpkYoOSeaiZek_OCnTA6sWE_6QsFhgDNDNbXqpdzFOnqENQsAb97G0uCGiY7uti8/w300-h400/Author%20headshot.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After two careers as a research scientist and an educator, Marian decided it was time to do what she’d always really wanted, and be a writer. As well as her novels, she’s published short stories and poetry. Her life-long interest in Roman and post-Roman European history provided the inspiration for the books, while her other interests in landscape archaeology and birding provide background.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">buy the books</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://linktr.ee/marianlthorpe">https://linktr.ee/marianlthorpe</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Website: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://marianlthorpe.com/">https://marianlthorpe.com/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Instagram: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/marianlthorpewriter/">https://www.instagram.com/marianlthorpewriter/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaH4ZiRqYjYj1EVKuXuJh4_NGkgz_T6plFY6rEAjcUFpo14x4NbLnsAlo0o1aIXWbgGcarRSunFE4HiiyKnvMMMihEiy5FnN7WJ998sM89qdlZ8oR_GkexzAfTZgVrhWvAXfQuxOUGtbiTHmzz2L0l5RGccxJJFlQJUvrGgrdSm1t2DuRDV3_opolwraM/s1280/qA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="1280" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaH4ZiRqYjYj1EVKuXuJh4_NGkgz_T6plFY6rEAjcUFpo14x4NbLnsAlo0o1aIXWbgGcarRSunFE4HiiyKnvMMMihEiy5FnN7WJ998sM89qdlZ8oR_GkexzAfTZgVrhWvAXfQuxOUGtbiTHmzz2L0l5RGccxJJFlQJUvrGgrdSm1t2DuRDV3_opolwraM/w400-h160/qA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>What was the first novel you read that made you think: ‘Wow, I want to write like this!’</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Mary Stewart’s <i>The Crystal Cave</i>. She made me be in the landscape of post-Roman Britain, and her characters were so human, and so believable. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2. <b>What book (fiction or nonfiction) is a treasure that you’d pass on to a grandchild</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>(if you had one)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Guy Gavriel Kay’s <i>Tigana</i>, a book that carries more sorrow and more hope than anything else I’ve read.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>If you found a genie in a magic lamp what would your three wishes be?</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For a world free of war, want, and disease. (Which will need a genie in a lamp to happen, I’m afraid.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">4. <b>If you could have a holiday anywhere in the world (for free!) where would you go?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tough one, since I’ve been just about everywhere I want to go, but making my next planned trip to the Baltic and Scandinavia free would be nice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">5. <b>Your favourite time period – and why</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Early medieval, because the world was far more connected and complex and sophisticated than I was taught in childhood, and learning about trade routes and the exchange of learning and ideas and scholarship (along with silk and jewels and lots of other things) fascinates me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">6. <b>Name one thing you regret that you didn’t do</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> I have almost no regrets, but there are a few musicians I failed to see in concert prior to their deaths. Pete Seeger and Stan Rogers are the ones I most wish I’d heard live.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">7. <b>Name one thing you’re pleased that you did do</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Travelled to the Altai Mountains of Mongolia on the chance of seeing a snow leopard in the wild – and I did. </div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJN2RzilV_DY1DSG6htfKGGrlhRxsp0EO2DJ8gRFDgVRzkG_soMOCKd0uC7sXEvnjy8Ni_ihWLzXYyovn-pQJxZKryzPB2FCRgwnxfkzB6M9uNY5edu7FjzhKXeCndfghUA5894a91GpUx3RlK1IuwxMiLg5YlaF3x6nPPK5c-Q6M8yFgdw8fDJ-QAvKk/s1200/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJN2RzilV_DY1DSG6htfKGGrlhRxsp0EO2DJ8gRFDgVRzkG_soMOCKd0uC7sXEvnjy8Ni_ihWLzXYyovn-pQJxZKryzPB2FCRgwnxfkzB6M9uNY5edu7FjzhKXeCndfghUA5894a91GpUx3RlK1IuwxMiLg5YlaF3x6nPPK5c-Q6M8yFgdw8fDJ-QAvKk/w400-h400/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>< <a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-world-of-imaginative-fiction_0522450730.html" target="_blank">PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Next Guest Post ></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">this month's themed tour guests:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Samantha Wilcoxson</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Anna Belfrage</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>the authors of 1066 Turned Upside Down</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Inge H. 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">First of all, thank you, Helen, for hosting EXSILIUM (and me!) on your blog. As a confirmed writer of alternative history thrillers, I’m delighted to take part in your special theme week!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">[H: My pleasure, Alison!]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">EXSILIUM follows JULIA PRIMA and forms the transition between recorded history as we know it and the start of the alternative history timeline of the modern <i>Roma Nova </i>series. In “alternate history speak”, EXSILIUM records the point of divergence of the historical timeline, the essential element of alternative history.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuXTTeZGy3w2UDf7rt8iU7z2BZbiShY1o6L4b3XQnEIadQiU4ruYtt0qoLoY-3t_WTeig_3apRqNLA1tRxk7dBFctAWOJLj16xGRrNafoJNs6qPr0CGDV9Ytwibe3215SrMhex910ipVijD_mM_IJKO0DhREg17fbRKpdL1ZhM937nc9WrpjZ1cz9V4Q/s1500/Roma%20Nova%20books%20Feb2024_sm.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1500" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuXTTeZGy3w2UDf7rt8iU7z2BZbiShY1o6L4b3XQnEIadQiU4ruYtt0qoLoY-3t_WTeig_3apRqNLA1tRxk7dBFctAWOJLj16xGRrNafoJNs6qPr0CGDV9Ytwibe3215SrMhex910ipVijD_mM_IJKO0DhREg17fbRKpdL1ZhM937nc9WrpjZ1cz9V4Q/w400-h224/Roma%20Nova%20books%20Feb2024_sm.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Roma Nova series</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Why did I leave the present day and dive back into the late 4th century? Because my readers insisted I tell the origin story of Roma Nova. The characters in the modern series of eight books often refer back to the foundation of Roma Nova and the life-changing decision their ancestors took to leave Rome and settle in the mountains. It was supposed to be one book, but I had too much story! JULIA PRIMA told us about Julia, the prince’s daughter from Noricum, and Lucius, the disgraced military tribune. Now, in this second Roma Nova Foundation story, the families are facing a life-threatening dilemma.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><i>Exile – a living death to a Roman. Or a way to survive?</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In AD 395, the Roman Empire is riven with religious conflict, dividing parents from children, brothers from sisters, and deteriorating into bitter violence. As the Christianised state stamps out all vestiges of Rome’s thousand-year religion and threatens execution for failure to convert, a group of senatorial Roman families, resolute in their traditional beliefs and values, has no choice but to go into voluntary exile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Maelia Mitela, on the brink of ruin when her husband dies fighting for a tolerant emperor, grieves for her son lost to the Christians and is fearful of committing to another man…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Lucius Apulius, ex-tribune, true to the old gods, fixed on the powerful memory of his wife Julia’s homeland of Noricum, will risk everything to protect his children’s future…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Galla Apulia, loyal to her father but as the eldest of four daughters only too aware of not being the desired son, and enduring the sting of personal betrayal…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A logistical nightmare, spoilt egos and heartbreak are challenging enough but the threat of forced conscription into the imperial army, barbarian raiders and a vengeful ex-spouse could sabotage their whole escape. Will courage, steadfastness and willpower be enough for them to survive?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyIefmrhWO4KyL3X74Yyl7hsQbBXFA6KY8uSFZ_buxSVkm_ZLZD5n3ht3FpN09m61b3KYEr2OT0yOoa3p_7CFRnR4tr-Jr8zRQCpxscWl5WIcAClKOSxCgGQ7IDgjnkLQXYSibFPTFgPARUV1qxTj8e_MCs206WPBG1aduZZROy0a-30A5vkyCJ0BG=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyIefmrhWO4KyL3X74Yyl7hsQbBXFA6KY8uSFZ_buxSVkm_ZLZD5n3ht3FpN09m61b3KYEr2OT0yOoa3p_7CFRnR4tr-Jr8zRQCpxscWl5WIcAClKOSxCgGQ7IDgjnkLQXYSibFPTFgPARUV1qxTj8e_MCs206WPBG1aduZZROy0a-30A5vkyCJ0BG=w200-h133" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Read An Excerpt</b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8I0WHQm8HPoYhnChzDtfJveEdG6rRDGoCOqh3HIblHfX40PsRAg0f461_6RNlBB0nvSq9koEGDuSsXk0u1bzTTMNJCje6gLsLKsv9QoH6yvwkqkIfA0MvO_cpr15vb7Ee4QM2Qn3nD-qtNlqp1jwi-BCrkzXfOQa_kumhTcXaEwmXhjbiNvDMQbz0LYA/s1024/AI%20Roma%20Novan%20trek.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8I0WHQm8HPoYhnChzDtfJveEdG6rRDGoCOqh3HIblHfX40PsRAg0f461_6RNlBB0nvSq9koEGDuSsXk0u1bzTTMNJCje6gLsLKsv9QoH6yvwkqkIfA0MvO_cpr15vb7Ee4QM2Qn3nD-qtNlqp1jwi-BCrkzXfOQa_kumhTcXaEwmXhjbiNvDMQbz0LYA/w400-h400/AI%20Roma%20Novan%20trek.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Galla Apulia narrates as they leave Rome forever.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We traipsed down the Alta Semita, a small procession of father, daughters and granddaughters, nursemaid, two servants with last minute bits and pieces in handcarts, and two guards. I’d sent the bulk of our goods to Leo Mercator’s livery stable by the Porta Flaminia by night when carts and wagons were permitted within the city, but we’d chosen to make our last journey through Rome on foot in daytime so we didn’t feel we were fleeing the city as if we were fugitives. It allowed us to capture some last memories, whether pleasant or not. I know Claudia had been out in the city this past week making numerous sketches, some of the public building, others of ordinary things like people in the markets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3ittM8WFwa1_XZ1GRVVVuI76nj3YQWaGPmVxa-lI92YK5fvgjS61WLLytdDNbAhtZV_O0jwNolAIkTEh5a_VFXTkk4LMEXHuCPKGBRSFCtS1e1gaYCZ8ahxAfCja6VYngT2NYLMunMlqY_GsQbKoE25USIG9xlaIimePs9UN5vD3QttKvQrDJ473Vjs/s613/vicus-alta-semita1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="550" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3ittM8WFwa1_XZ1GRVVVuI76nj3YQWaGPmVxa-lI92YK5fvgjS61WLLytdDNbAhtZV_O0jwNolAIkTEh5a_VFXTkk4LMEXHuCPKGBRSFCtS1e1gaYCZ8ahxAfCja6VYngT2NYLMunMlqY_GsQbKoE25USIG9xlaIimePs9UN5vD3QttKvQrDJ473Vjs/w359-h400/vicus-alta-semita1.jpg" width="359" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Via Alta Semita</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Lost in my own thoughts, I was silent, relishing the relative quiet of the Alta Semita, but it didn’t last. The instant we went down through the remnants of the old Porta Salutaris in the Servian Wall, the street became crowded; people, shops, gossips, soldiers, children and dogs running, and all making noise – that unique Roman noise of insults, boasts, laughter and shrieking. This was the direct route to the Campus Martius after all. And the smell. Gods! At least the mountain air wouldn’t make us choke. Our boots protected us from the hard stone and the unnameable things lying on their surface. We may have looked like out-of-town travellers, but as born and bred Romans we were used to beggars and pickpockets and kept a close lookout for distractions and straying hands. Lucilla directed her fiercest glare as a dirty-faced child attempted to snatch her waist pouch. The child retreated. But I spotted Lucilla fish a couple of bronze coins out and throw them at the girl.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">‘That was well done, Sister,’ I murmured.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">‘The gods know where the money will go. I hope on something to eat, but I suspect to a pickpocket master.’ She shrugged. ‘You have to try.’</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Buying links for EXSILIUM:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Amazon: <a href="https://mybook.to/EXSILIUM">https://mybook.to/EXSILIUM</a> (universal link)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Other retailers: <a href="https://books2read.com/EXSILIUM">https://books2read.com/EXSILIUM</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbRDiPesYg2jLToLR47amQikjqPFvXNXcRjyI58EhBqz__Ce1hdHb30Z2eDFsEJPTQb7nQzC_PeZwFv6CMCGKfT8sTFSJHr4owvFMBJ_k9VsnMbHDSwT5_PYGJu8O5WeKy3DDMN2OdhiFc04ebjUdG1Y3eqgxVRRPknogUHwBG393W1FqX4SNwTKLHcM/s1280/Alison%20at%20Virunum.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbRDiPesYg2jLToLR47amQikjqPFvXNXcRjyI58EhBqz__Ce1hdHb30Z2eDFsEJPTQb7nQzC_PeZwFv6CMCGKfT8sTFSJHr4owvFMBJ_k9VsnMbHDSwT5_PYGJu8O5WeKy3DDMN2OdhiFc04ebjUdG1Y3eqgxVRRPknogUHwBG393W1FqX4SNwTKLHcM/w400-h300/Alison%20at%20Virunum.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Alison at Virunum</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About Alison</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Alison Morton writes award-winning thrillers featuring tough but compassionate heroines. Her ten-book Roma Nova series is set in an imaginary European country where a remnant of the Roman Empire has survived into the 21st century and is ruled by women who face conspiracy, revolution and heartache but use a sharp line in dialogue. The latest, EXSILIUM, plunges us back to the late 4th century, to the very foundation of Roma Nova.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">She blends her fascination for Ancient Rome with six years’ military service and a life of reading crime, historical and thriller fiction. On the way, she collected a BA in modern languages and an MA in history. Alison lives in Poitou in France, the home of Mélisende, the heroine of her two contemporary thrillers, <b><i>Double Identity</i></b> and <i><b>Double Pursuit</b></i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Social media links</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Connect with Alison on her thriller site: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://alison-morton.com">https://alison-morton.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Facebook author page: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AlisonMortonAuthor">https://www.facebook.com/AlisonMortonAuthor</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">X/Twitter: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://twitter.com/alison_morton">https://twitter.com/alison_morton</a> @alison_morton</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Alison’s writing blog: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://alisonmortonauthor.com">https://alisonmortonauthor.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Instagram: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alisonmortonauthor/">https://www.instagram.com/alisonmortonauthor/</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Goodreads: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5783095.Alison_Morton">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5783095.Alison_Morton</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Threads: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.threads.net/@alisonmortonauthor">https://www.threads.net/@alisonmortonauthor</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Alison’s Amazon page: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://Author.to/AlisonMortonAmazon">https://Author.to/AlisonMortonAmazon</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Newsletter sign-up: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.alison-morton.com/newsletter/">https://www.alison-morton.com/newsletter/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyR_edjO_8MibL84qdcMpu5CsGBA5dYf-fC52nW8LxzouhLU5w-ne0I1Wsw26XJtc3fs9uaB8p-9zI-lugw5m3Laza8LRl78Vqt4ua6BXsfC9Jv4uhyMGvRFgfb1El_9ZDPBEWWxCcmbEzCu0klaxH14eB4m4X_NPSMmSdBVyttC7tW6ukL1AbYWx-SqY/s1280/qA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="1280" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyR_edjO_8MibL84qdcMpu5CsGBA5dYf-fC52nW8LxzouhLU5w-ne0I1Wsw26XJtc3fs9uaB8p-9zI-lugw5m3Laza8LRl78Vqt4ua6BXsfC9Jv4uhyMGvRFgfb1El_9ZDPBEWWxCcmbEzCu0klaxH14eB4m4X_NPSMmSdBVyttC7tW6ukL1AbYWx-SqY/s320/qA.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>What was the first novel you read that made you think: ‘Wow, I want to write like this!’</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Robert Harris’s Fatherland. Although I’d already drafted my first book INCEPTIO, I hadn’t realised I was writing alternative history!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>What book (fiction or nonfiction) is a treasure that you’d pass on to a grandchild?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I have two grandchildren now! But I have no idea how to choose one single book. I would leave them my whole home library.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>If you found a genie in a magic lamp what would your three wishes be?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Get everybody to calm down about everything</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Magic up an infinite supply of medical and nursing staff</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">World peace (or do I sound too much like Barbie?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">[H: nothing wrong with sounding like Barbie!]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>If you could have a holiday anywhere in the world (for free!) where would you go?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A tour of Roman sites I haven’t been to (Give me a few months to enjoy this).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Your favourite time period – and why</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Ha! As long as I had enough money to protect myself against the slings and arrows, etc., any time during the Western Roman Empire apart from the third century.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Name one thing you regret that you didn’t do</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Worked harder at school. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Name one thing you’re pleased that you did do</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Started writing thrillers in an alternative Roman setting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoTy_xJqJ11XcfivjZu80KgeRuhiiK8XKuI4VAQ2Y-nNcZL84dDIFF37Wl3NY4yA1Uw0itUswNxX4lX29TWz2ADbxiwp7_7ypr2yECnfGjlIEq2k8_dBHxYvUBEz2l5O_ewlVZDOmNrVXTVKcF7kYkpK21ZuRzw7D2zKxzrdkcP-VmUuVt23z6dw6gfU/s1280/girl-160172_1280.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoTy_xJqJ11XcfivjZu80KgeRuhiiK8XKuI4VAQ2Y-nNcZL84dDIFF37Wl3NY4yA1Uw0itUswNxX4lX29TWz2ADbxiwp7_7ypr2yECnfGjlIEq2k8_dBHxYvUBEz2l5O_ewlVZDOmNrVXTVKcF7kYkpK21ZuRzw7D2zKxzrdkcP-VmUuVt23z6dw6gfU/s320/girl-160172_1280.png" width="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>MyReview</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's Alison's fault that I dreamed up the idea of having a Spotlight Week on my blog each month exploring various themes - I had bookmarked today's slot for <i>Exsilium,</i> with an 'aboutr the book' and a review - then thought 'Let's do more than just a spotlight and a review for one book...'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So you've read the Spotlight (I hope!) ... now here's my review.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Briefly. Exsilium is brilliant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I think I say this for each new episode of Alison's Roma Nova novels - each one outdoes the previous, each going from strength to strength in author's confidence, plot, plausible adventure, believable characters, immaculate research and that essential 'give us more' enthusiasm at the end. Each new release I think: 'Surely she can't do it again? The series must tire, she must run out of ideas.' And each time I am 100% wrong!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The good guys have that right amount of human believability about them - not all-out 'goody-goodies' but they have a sense of honour and trustworthiness mixed with the ability to get things wrong, but the sebnse to put them right - just like real good people. The baddies are bad enough for the reader to not mind when (if) they get killed, but not so bad that you can't stand reading about them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I so enjoyed finding out about the 'history' of the characters in this novel, in particular, having 'met' many of them before by name in other novels of the Roma Nova series. Each character comes vividly to life and each book is perfectly OK to read as a stand alone - this one included - as back stories and future stories are skilfully intertwined within Alison's more than capable creative ability of story telling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Exsilium is brilliant. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I also say this every time: The Best Yet!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">5 stars and very highly recommended.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">5 ***** </span></b>Stars</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqIans4RU6XvDOEMV79nglq_30bK9k6Yb9cJ3iT2xW0G47xFj5SHJ6NlsPSVdpagSzj9jbRHze_Ka0Xjk64WGY9PBWyQvsabSYQha1JwOm0ytAiD1dN-2H3O4Ztj_hADVQnm1YvSXiy2yavxdhFQoHIf4tnimdZMhEPSSQHBdIlfELVn1Yulu0SlaQ4A/s1200/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisqIans4RU6XvDOEMV79nglq_30bK9k6Yb9cJ3iT2xW0G47xFj5SHJ6NlsPSVdpagSzj9jbRHze_Ka0Xjk64WGY9PBWyQvsabSYQha1JwOm0ytAiD1dN-2H3O4Ztj_hADVQnm1YvSXiy2yavxdhFQoHIf4tnimdZMhEPSSQHBdIlfELVn1Yulu0SlaQ4A/w400-h400/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-world-of-imaginative-fiction_01414703351.html" target="_blank"> PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-world-of-imaginative-fiction_01865126737.html" target="_blank">NEXT POST </a>></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">this month's themed tour guests:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Samantha Wilcoxson</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Anna Belfrage</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>the authors of 1066 Turned Upside Down</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Inge H. 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text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>by Charlene Newcomb</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>A rebel double-crossed. A world fallen. And a relentless enemy who will not rest…</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Revolution. Double agents.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Spaceships called crusaders.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Freedom fighters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Mercenaries (er, businessmen).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Galactic unrest. Space battles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Ground assaults. Secret passageways. Lots of explosions! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Jack Gamble is a shattered man. His lover betrayed him. His contacts in the resistance are scattered. And his best friend may be dead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">With the Galilei Empire closing in, Jack’s ship is intercepted by mercenaries under the command of Captain Ben Stone. Can Jack turn Ben to his cause, or will Ben turn him?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But Jack can’t afford any emotional entanglements. Not now. He has a rebellion to win and a homeworld to reclaim before the planet and its people are lost to the Empire forever.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><b>If you like action-packed science fiction adventure with undercover spies, ace pilots, special forces teams, wild battles, and a slow-burn romance, then this space opera is the book for you.</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Buy links - <a href="https://mybook.to/EchoesoftheStorm"><b>https://mybook.to/EchoesoftheStorm</b></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">(available on Kindle Unlimited)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7w_C0hXqBG_AhYzTr6vwiggVNFKHsqmnUzONV8LY3BNm7GZ2DCR61tZ5wgdBfRB4pTJUFYZTtVdfonBMa__66SlVD7DpoTe5Lx5H79VuvedEnwe4yJZ8kguFmrko5sW6redMppm4HUPld9CYcp0Cusmdbow5ej5dRZFIou7Ex2bg6A6EBKe4eQsCD8P0/s250/Char%20photo%20250x.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="250" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7w_C0hXqBG_AhYzTr6vwiggVNFKHsqmnUzONV8LY3BNm7GZ2DCR61tZ5wgdBfRB4pTJUFYZTtVdfonBMa__66SlVD7DpoTe5Lx5H79VuvedEnwe4yJZ8kguFmrko5sW6redMppm4HUPld9CYcp0Cusmdbow5ej5dRZFIou7Ex2bg6A6EBKe4eQsCD8P0/w400-h301/Char%20photo%20250x.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Charlene Newcomb, aka Char, writes historical fiction and science fiction. Her award-winning Battle Scars trilogy is set in the 12th century during the reign of Richard the Lionheart. Her writing roots are in the Star Wars Expanded Universe (aka Legends) where she published 10 short stories in the Star Wars Adventure Journal. Scifi/space opera fans should check out <i>Echoes of the Storm</i>, her original novel published in 2020. Char returns to medieval times with her latest novel <i>Rogue</i> in 2023. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Social Media Links:</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Website</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://charlenenewcomb.com">https://charlenenewcomb.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Facebook </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CharleneNewcombAuthor/">https://www.facebook.com/CharleneNewcombAuthor/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Threads</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://threads.net/@charnewcomb">https://threads.net/@charnewcomb</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">BlueSky </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://charnewcomb.bsky.social">https://charnewcomb.bsky.social</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Instagram</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://instagram.com/charnewc">https://instagram.com/charnewc</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Amazon </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00APY2H16">https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00APY2H16</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Author Interview</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Why Echoes of the Storm?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Star Trek </i>was my original science fiction obsession as a teenager in the late 1960s. I dreamed up stories about that universe with a whole cast of characters interacting with the crew of the USS <i>Enterprise</i> but never wrote them down. <i>Star Wars</i> came along in May 1977 and I was a fanatic from day 1, but it wasn’t until the 1990s when novelist Timothy Zahn wrote <i>Heir to the Empire</i>, a ‘sequel’ to <i>Return of the Jedi</i>, that my own imagination came to life and I put pen to paper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The first short story I submitted to the Lucasfilm-licensed Star Wars Adventure Journal (SWAJ) was published in 1994, and many more followed. When the SWAJ died in 1997, and without a traditionally published science fiction novel in my portfolio, my days writing Star Wars fiction essentially ended.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">What’s a writer to do? Start working on an original SciFi novel of course! It was 1998 when the first words of <i>Echoes of the Storm</i> were typed. I managed to write about half the book when real life interfered. The manuscript went untouched until around 2005. I took a look at it and thought ‘this isn’t half bad’ and then promptly fell back into real life. In 2009 I hit the keyboard again but the medieval bug took over and I was immersed in the crusades of the late 12th century. With three books of my <i>Battle Scars</i> trilogy published by 2018, I wanted a break from historical research. <i>Echoes</i> finally got its due, and I am proud that others have recognized it:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1st Place, CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Chanticleer International</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Gold Medal, Book of the Year 2020 – Fantasy – Coffee Pot Book Club</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">indieBRAG Medallion honoree </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyR_edjO_8MibL84qdcMpu5CsGBA5dYf-fC52nW8LxzouhLU5w-ne0I1Wsw26XJtc3fs9uaB8p-9zI-lugw5m3Laza8LRl78Vqt4ua6BXsfC9Jv4uhyMGvRFgfb1El_9ZDPBEWWxCcmbEzCu0klaxH14eB4m4X_NPSMmSdBVyttC7tW6ukL1AbYWx-SqY/s1280/qA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="1280" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyR_edjO_8MibL84qdcMpu5CsGBA5dYf-fC52nW8LxzouhLU5w-ne0I1Wsw26XJtc3fs9uaB8p-9zI-lugw5m3Laza8LRl78Vqt4ua6BXsfC9Jv4uhyMGvRFgfb1El_9ZDPBEWWxCcmbEzCu0klaxH14eB4m4X_NPSMmSdBVyttC7tW6ukL1AbYWx-SqY/s320/qA.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1.<b> What was the first novel you read that made you think: ‘Wow, I want to write like this!’</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">That would have to be Timothy Zahn’s <i>Heir to the Empire</i>. He inspired me to begin my writing journey. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">2. <b>What book (fiction or nonfiction) is a treasure that you’d pass on to a grandchild.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I have a signed first edition of <i>Heir to the Empire </i>that I hope would be treasured by one of my young grand-padawans who, at 18 months, 3 years, and 5 years, are already learning about Star Wars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">3.<b> If you found a genie in a magic lamp what would your three wishes be?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I would wish 1) for the ability to write one new book every year; 2) for my <i>Battle Scars </i>trilogy to be produced as a mini-series for television; and 3) for my children and grandchildren to enjoy long, healthy, and happy lives. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">4. <b>If you could have a holiday anywhere in the world (for free!) where would you go?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I want to vacation in St. Ives, Cornwall, in a cottage by the sea with great views! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhClO6GMOH4tHGQc1FxNZYyDkPARZzNaLck5IMLoVwj1KlG6lDW-3uODTGTyVNg0YFQaqbDjQOUHW0zO12joSPuUFG7EG4Q3Vk-E52z4JJtSKjCwN-VRFae6wmN39jsqAreeCDEkDa7pQveAUPtZb3HL3XaLj_3pjZMNDGTiVH4d69WTIxz4nrKw2WpzPM/s800/2009%20cornwall.st%20ives91%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="800" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhClO6GMOH4tHGQc1FxNZYyDkPARZzNaLck5IMLoVwj1KlG6lDW-3uODTGTyVNg0YFQaqbDjQOUHW0zO12joSPuUFG7EG4Q3Vk-E52z4JJtSKjCwN-VRFae6wmN39jsqAreeCDEkDa7pQveAUPtZb3HL3XaLj_3pjZMNDGTiVH4d69WTIxz4nrKw2WpzPM/w400-h189/2009%20cornwall.st%20ives91%20(1).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">5. <b>Your favourite time period – and why</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I don’t think I’d be writing novels taking place during the 12th and 13th centuries if that medieval era wasn’t my favorite. I was a US History major, and always imagined myself writing a time travel novel about a 20th century CIA agent who got whipped back to June 1776. He obviously would become one of Washington’s spies…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Instead, I became obsessed with Robin Hood and preferred the legends that had him serving Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade. That led to my deep dive into that era. The people, places, and politics - some stranger than fiction - are absolutely fascinating. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">6. <b>Name one thing you regret that you didn’t do</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I will always regret not talking to my parents and grandparents more about their own childhoods and learning more of their parents and grandparents. I have names and birth- and death dates, but what did they do? What were their daily lives like in the mid-to-late 1800s/early 1900s? So many missing pieces… </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">7. <b>Name one thing you’re pleased that you did do.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I am thrilled that I attended my first Historical Novel Society conference in 2015 and had the opportunity to meet and have lunch with the wonderful Sharon Kay Penman. I also was invited to sit with YOU, Helen, at dinner, and met other writers like Anna Belfrage and Alison Morton who I consider good friends and confidants! </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">[Helen: The friendship is reciprocated Charlene!]</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5QnOsqFKFGeLQUbNKq7YMXJ2hPbgkGtcdqZlMza-x5dGCD1vYrCkUkbUDq4xMY3B8ZD7TfA365XWS14yRhi8XU33KhtlY_TZQp21TsMb5t98npf6auTrVxX9zwsILVBJ67QF4qjqDEEaILC9Xqd_tiIe_Xbi4Naa_1epFHVe3Rg85GdjmlhTKk8RPqk/s1200/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL5QnOsqFKFGeLQUbNKq7YMXJ2hPbgkGtcdqZlMza-x5dGCD1vYrCkUkbUDq4xMY3B8ZD7TfA365XWS14yRhi8XU33KhtlY_TZQp21TsMb5t98npf6auTrVxX9zwsILVBJ67QF4qjqDEEaILC9Xqd_tiIe_Xbi4Naa_1epFHVe3Rg85GdjmlhTKk8RPqk/w400-h400/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-world-of-imaginative-fiction_01134711371.html" target="_blank"> PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-world-of-imaginative-fiction_0522450730.html" target="_blank">NEXT POST</a> ></b></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">*** *** </span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">You might also like </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">books written by Helen Hollick </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span class="font"><b>Website:</b> </span></span><a href="https://helenhollick.net/" style="text-align: left;"><span class="font">https://helenhollick.net/</span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span class="font"><b>Amazon Author Page:</b> </span></span><a href="https://viewauthor.at/HelenHollick" style="text-align: left;"><span class="font">https://viewauthor.at/HelenHollick<b> </b></span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Harlond, <span style="font-family: inherit;">Helen Hollick, Loretta Livingstone, Amy Maroney </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alison Morton, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charlene Newcomb, Elizabeth St.John, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Marian L Thorpe, Annie Whitehead.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">With an introduction by Deborah Swift</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfyRBkFxtuUUOnxEui0wakDsb1ZK1__0sM0kGYeCpuI-N_XoGJzOrYHMdDaMA9wx0fsptPwtLPRg4xZ77ieYjKxC6zoWmLGC-PGG1sAf6uaSRWW2fwNJMyryyPjORdrR0Qqu85oGG0a0/s1407/Betrayal-ipad.png" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Helen Hollickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-43194841902270827172024-03-07T03:00:00.103+00:002024-03-08T10:33:58.612+00:00Exploring the world of imaginative fiction with Inge H.Borg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidS50gzb723f8OH16W_ZtYQ-hcKnJnxoSoJ_lBDpzipOJC4urHQQpyHRVjPcmpFrSnWjH4iyak8ra-fNfehVHHpcaAWh_iyEKhdCavjOzKIc7pfjPIwijU53Z5Mwm0YDp8uhCmKw0EtCza_-ui-ohDM85ioG1TeOoG2FJFxoNPn-BS2UwFAU0ryQcTqBY/s851/March%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="851" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidS50gzb723f8OH16W_ZtYQ-hcKnJnxoSoJ_lBDpzipOJC4urHQQpyHRVjPcmpFrSnWjH4iyak8ra-fNfehVHHpcaAWh_iyEKhdCavjOzKIc7pfjPIwijU53Z5Mwm0YDp8uhCmKw0EtCza_-ui-ohDM85ioG1TeOoG2FJFxoNPn-BS2UwFAU0ryQcTqBY/w400-h148/March%202024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Let's explore Egyptology and the land of the Pharaohs </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>with</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Inge H. Borg</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfQ6yQV-1Vd_QlcFhCgnr7XVnJQoF1ZPN4168AnmLM_-KN1DS-dvfnwnx5Pqy1Tw6ByuCq4b7MXWB8B6r6YTuGNXfmr94VLHUvJikeEGPB-AyYQxpfyKkmcd10kKC7jIY3x-vfLmiKyPudNp65kup1T9JC5NG8fByEUaE5w8NsfNOBx90hRNVKAGWfvQ/s908/1.%20Inge%20H.%20Borg,%20Author.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="908" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfQ6yQV-1Vd_QlcFhCgnr7XVnJQoF1ZPN4168AnmLM_-KN1DS-dvfnwnx5Pqy1Tw6ByuCq4b7MXWB8B6r6YTuGNXfmr94VLHUvJikeEGPB-AyYQxpfyKkmcd10kKC7jIY3x-vfLmiKyPudNp65kup1T9JC5NG8fByEUaE5w8NsfNOBx90hRNVKAGWfvQ/w400-h339/1.%20Inge%20H.%20Borg,%20Author.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rBMtGJ7UREaekB2bRVU6TmP__AmdT98igb2NwTS3fj6XKtkewZ4w98xqTDCVn-xVUe5EPJay71cGOQMGYb5PP3YAE9S_iMP1ybrWfYjV_tT3r8ztt2kMB6tcxkld06fusm6OQ2XiTmA/s720/wandering+1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rBMtGJ7UREaekB2bRVU6TmP__AmdT98igb2NwTS3fj6XKtkewZ4w98xqTDCVn-xVUe5EPJay71cGOQMGYb5PP3YAE9S_iMP1ybrWfYjV_tT3r8ztt2kMB6tcxkld06fusm6OQ2XiTmA/s320/wandering+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Welcome to my Blog!</b><br />Wander through wonderful worlds<br />real and fictional,<br />meet interesting people,<br />visit exciting places<br />and find a few good books<br />to enjoy along the way!<br /><br /></span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1MDXQ0DsNoz7QmyMdvVA0nh8fDdAZqBINrrihRTT_Zfs4_e0mL9aOf5jAyOIOwCSBd3cvZB6ZyR1aqQ5Lr-eOOlKXolPvXdxUVd9XHePxmPxUYdDLifbcTvbLZFFVbVfKJTUFvwTRkOknRna1qyq_M6HOT7y2fV40YMOsQAmzspPeA3GR8ykEuB5dSY/s2509/2.%20Cover-AFTER%20THE%20CATACLYSM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2509" data-original-width="1753" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1MDXQ0DsNoz7QmyMdvVA0nh8fDdAZqBINrrihRTT_Zfs4_e0mL9aOf5jAyOIOwCSBd3cvZB6ZyR1aqQ5Lr-eOOlKXolPvXdxUVd9XHePxmPxUYdDLifbcTvbLZFFVbVfKJTUFvwTRkOknRna1qyq_M6HOT7y2fV40YMOsQAmzspPeA3GR8ykEuB5dSY/w280-h400/2.%20Cover-AFTER%20THE%20CATACLYSM.jpg" width="280" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s1357" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1357" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>About the Book</b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">AFTER
THE CATACLYSM </span></span></b><span class="tooltip-custom" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US">(a<b> </b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">Dystopian Thriller)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book
3 – Legends of the Winged Scarab Series</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="tooltip-custom" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by Inge H. Borg</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US">WHAT
IF</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
- the Yellowstone Supervolcano were to blow its top?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">Well,
it just had. North America becomes a desperate post-apocalyptic world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Egyptologist
Dr. Naunet Wilkins and her scientist husband Jonathan, together with Dr. William
Jefferson Browning and a young friend, Sam Fahey, accept an offer from the
prominent Egyptian archaeologist Dr. Jabari El-Masri, who himself has found
refuge on a Venezuelan penal island owned by the shady art collector Lorenzo
Dominguez. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
latter’s luxurious estate and a refurbished ghost ship (the real former Russian
M/S Lyubov Orlova) crawling with cannibal rats, become their prisons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did
El-Masri barter the stolen ancient golden tablets and his American friends’
expertise in exchange for his own exile?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1MDXQ0DsNoz7QmyMdvVA0nh8fDdAZqBINrrihRTT_Zfs4_e0mL9aOf5jAyOIOwCSBd3cvZB6ZyR1aqQ5Lr-eOOlKXolPvXdxUVd9XHePxmPxUYdDLifbcTvbLZFFVbVfKJTUFvwTRkOknRna1qyq_M6HOT7y2fV40YMOsQAmzspPeA3GR8ykEuB5dSY/s2509/2.%20Cover-AFTER%20THE%20CATACLYSM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2509" data-original-width="1753" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn1MDXQ0DsNoz7QmyMdvVA0nh8fDdAZqBINrrihRTT_Zfs4_e0mL9aOf5jAyOIOwCSBd3cvZB6ZyR1aqQ5Lr-eOOlKXolPvXdxUVd9XHePxmPxUYdDLifbcTvbLZFFVbVfKJTUFvwTRkOknRna1qyq_M6HOT7y2fV40YMOsQAmzspPeA3GR8ykEuB5dSY/w280-h400/2.%20Cover-AFTER%20THE%20CATACLYSM.jpg" width="280" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US"></span></i></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSjpYWMLKCkFXf4HZStFsyyclybrqGA2JjTWDI_RWGcGKkokD1qgFE29u63chlJl7eIEZz27cB9f8ufEBedKbCy0PkdsYwpQ2ZsCYZo0d2eugXYPxtcXIQXeNHYkr1QLp7UEPr3syQN4MxBQeRDjWiQGg_yTGzG4Li9qV9MWLpWo3DRD_po82WEtrneM/s1280/Excerpt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSjpYWMLKCkFXf4HZStFsyyclybrqGA2JjTWDI_RWGcGKkokD1qgFE29u63chlJl7eIEZz27cB9f8ufEBedKbCy0PkdsYwpQ2ZsCYZo0d2eugXYPxtcXIQXeNHYkr1QLp7UEPr3syQN4MxBQeRDjWiQGg_yTGzG4Li9qV9MWLpWo3DRD_po82WEtrneM/s320/Excerpt.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>enjoy an excerpt</b></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></i></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 18</span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heads together, they leaned over the
inlaid mosaic table on the shaded terrace. Because of their whispered intense
conversation, they completely missed the approach of the heavy-set man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Working hard I see!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Four heads jerked up in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Hey, Jabari, where did you spring
from?” Sam called out. He jumped up and pulled another rattan chair close to
the table. “Here, take a load off.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The profusely sweating man took off
his fedora and looked at the foursome for a few seconds before wiping his
forehead with a crisp white handkerchief. Then he plopped heavily into the
proffered chair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Have some lemonade,” Sam said, his
boyish face open, his eyes solicitous. “Man, this is what I call hot’n-humid.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Naunet, Jonathan and Bill tried to
hide their annoyance not only over the inopportune appearance of the Egyptian,
but because of his rude challenge. No smile had accompanied his terse
reprimand. They had indeed been working hard for months, every day, and a brief
break should not be invoking sarcasm, especially not from Jabari who had been
absent most of the time. Still, they felt guilty. Not for drinking lemonade or
taking a break in the fresh air, but for plotting their escape. The question
was, what about Jabari? Should they include him in their daring plan? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the last six months, Naunet had
slaved over those golden slates. They had arrived at her doorstep as if by
conveyor belt and she had been allowed barely three days to translate each one.
And this very morning, she had finished putting Lorenzo’s photograph together
with the translation for tablet number fifty. It was the last one, and a very
special one for her. It should have never been brought back up from the depths
of the Mediterranean. She felt as if she had stolen from the other Naunet,
goddess of the sea, now once again unappeased and perhaps waiting to take her
revenge on them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was because of having worked on
the tablet before she only needed to recheck the translation she had already
done on Crete. That last and most intense writing damned a culture gone bad
through avarice, greed and debauchery. The curses still rang in her ears. She
wondered what Lorenzo would think about them once she handed over the completed
leather-bound, gold-embossed folder he had provided. It was quite conceivable
the man’s twisted mind would believe ten thousand year-old predictions should
be relevant in their day and age. He fully assumed some of the
fire-and-brimstone predictions had already been unleashed that Christmas
morning when Yellowstone blew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After all she had endured, she cared
little what Jabari thought at the moment. She finally had to get this off her
chest—or turn into an erupting volcano herself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I finished everything this morning,
Jabari. And no thanks to you, I must say. Where were you during the last week?
I could have used some assistance.” The moment she uttered the last word, she
noticed the Egyptian’s chin jutting straight out. Holding her temper in check,
she quickly changed her tone. “I really had hoped you would confirm my
translation. Especially the last tablet’s. It’s the most revealing, as you can
guess. I have it inside. Jonathan can bring it out if you want to have a look
now.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the last second, Naunet
remembered the tablet was still in the backpack that Jabari had hauled in when
he came upon her argument with Edward. And because of the Crete translation,
she hadn’t needed to look at it again. If Jabari realized she had not touched
the slate, he would find it more than odd.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Egyptian pushed away from the
table and crossed his arms in front of him. His black eyes bore into Naunet who
felt herself engulfed in some inexplicable panic. Within an instant, this man
was no longer their friend Jabari, but had reverted back to the autocratic Dr.
El-Masri, Egypt’s <i>pharaoh,</i> lording
over all of his country’s antiquities—and everyone who dared to be around them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“My dear Dr. Klein.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Jonathan heard his wife being
pointedly addressed by her maiden name, he too sensed Jabari had changed, and
not for the better. He and Bill exchanged a quick look. Both sat up in their
chairs, but decided to stay out of the uncomfortable exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“My dear Dr. Klein,” El-Masri said
again. “Do you really think I would let you work away blithely without checking
up on your work?” When he saw Naunet’s face getting flushed at his words—<i>blithely</i> being the most insulting—he
added, “By the way, I must admit, your work is fairly good.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The only sound on the terrace came
from the rustling leaves of the surrounding banana palms. The wind was
freshening and dark clouds scudded overhead, drawing foreboding shadows onto
the terracotta pattern.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Naunet stiffened. “My dear Dr.
El-Masri.” Reverting back to her formal European ways, Naunet addressed the man
opposite her in a similarly pointed manner, her voice clear and sharp. If the
confounded man was fluent in hieratic script, why had he asked her down here?
Come to think of it, why had he demanded she come to Cairo two years ago for
the same reason? She was truly incensed; and powerless like a trapped gazelle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“As I just told you: I finished the
last tablet and my binder is inside. I’ll be happy to get it for you. I am sure
you prefer to take it to your master yourself.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She saw Jabari flinch. <i>Good</i>. Was he being pressured by Lorenzo?
Or blackmailed, with Zahra on the ship and his son marooned on Santiago Island?
Suddenly, Naunet felt sorry for the man. The feeling vanished as soon as he
spoke again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You seem incapable to grasp that
those ancient words, first woven into fading mats of colored grasses, and then
chiseled onto the High Priest’s golden tablets, confirm what I have believed
all my life: We Egyptians did not spring from some sub-Saharan culture, nor
from a primitive Noba tribe. When will you people get it through your thick
heads: We are <i>not</i> a black race.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Whoa, easy there, my friend.” Bill
assumed Jabari was trying to refute an insistent belief among some of the
scientific community concerning the origin of the ancients. “When you say ‘we
Egyptians,’ do you mean the people preceding you modern-day Arabs?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“How dare you! You Americans have no
clue about archaeology; or history, for that matter. You may call yourself
scientists, but what do you know about us!” The man before them exploded like a
hot geyser. Spittle had formed in the corners of his mouth and his chest heaved
as if he had difficulty breathing. His face was a mottled mask of red and
purple blotches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sam’s mouth fell open. He had never
seen anyone blow up like this and wished he were someplace else, preferably
with Maria. On the other hand, this display of unbridled passion and arrogance
was fascinating. Still, he moved his chair further back in case glasses started
flying off the table.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I bet,” El-Masri pointed his finger
at Naunet, “I just bet you omitted to write down where the ancients came from.
Just so your lily-white world would not have to admit my ancestors came from
Crete!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We don’t know for sure where they
came from,” Naunet said quietly but with authority. She was no longer in the
mood to appease this man and his unfolding attack on her work or her chosen
country even if she was technically still a citizen of Austria. “The one
sentence mentioning the ancients’ origin disappeared with the missing corner of
the first tablet. I am sure you remember, it was knocked off in your Cairo lab,
and then mysteriously vanished from there.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It <i>was</i> Crete,” El-Masri sputtered. His fist hit the table to make it
clear this was as good as a proven fact as far as he was concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“We emerged from the Ideon Cave.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His dark eyes swept toward the sky.
He stretched his hands high above his head and, in a sing-song voice not unlike
an ancient high priest, he intoned,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I sprang from the birthplace of
Zeus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I am the fruit of Zeus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I. Am. A demigod.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Had the man gone mad? They sat in
stunned silence until Sam jumped up. “Right on, Jabari!” He slapped the
Egyptian hard on the back. “Man, what a performance. You should’ve been an
actor.” He clapped his hands together and crowed, “Bravo!” In his youthful
irreverence, he had managed to defuse a situation from which the only exit
would have been embarrassment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jabari came off his high horse—or
out of Zeus’s cave, as it were. Naunet stopped pouting and quietly settled her
ruffled feathers. Bill nodded to Sam, mumbling ‘out of the mouths of babes.’
Jonathan stuck his hands deeper into his pockets. It would not do to bash the
arrogant bugger’s teeth in. Not now when their secret plans to set sail were at
stake, even though they might be heading straight into the maws of a hurricane.
One thing was certain. Those plans would not include Jabari. ...</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Legends of the
Winged Scarab Series</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3ZM-4957z-SvINT1zUaiPc6QLZpleC7y-caT8xiihQhLVtVTjAJ6PWAbniGAb5olAJ2J8KEfWds9y85B1TulzCSq8VDMx8uZ5bWSjkhMlH9mV7OwYGZlbXuXTtaQEtmslLkYavQwro_nd0X2b6hOyG5vSx612ae5niVIylmOZzYF44arArHC-24J0S0/s2560/3.%20Legends%205-BookBanner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="2560" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3ZM-4957z-SvINT1zUaiPc6QLZpleC7y-caT8xiihQhLVtVTjAJ6PWAbniGAb5olAJ2J8KEfWds9y85B1TulzCSq8VDMx8uZ5bWSjkhMlH9mV7OwYGZlbXuXTtaQEtmslLkYavQwro_nd0X2b6hOyG5vSx612ae5niVIylmOZzYF44arArHC-24J0S0/w400-h140/3.%20Legends%205-BookBanner.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Writing the series
was fun, with the research rabbit-holes at times frustrating, but eventually
(after several years) very satisfying.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My one regret: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN">I had signed up for a
</span>Tour
to Egypt with the San Diego, California, Museum of Arts. Having turned into a
less insouciant woman over the years, I cancelled due to unrest and attacks on
tourists at the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The tour went ahead; they all came back
alive, quite happy having participated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 4.5pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">* * *<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Thank you,
Helen, for providing space, time and enormous effort on your Blog showcasing
the Legends of the Winged Scarab Series. </i><u style="color: #00b050; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0in;"><i>My pleasure Inge :-)</i></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR-7xBctLgr7u4m4N_MnnQDbhwApOVuw39wMooM699AunAQQ8N_eXKLmZCyBi_9a7-D6ID3WJcMxT9cl1cOZwUYjJb5vTC_o1aY9N0hmdSKeaE4e7EdH-OGXqoW_cwL3VZPTiQunZbyyjyf57npyYBP9badL_ixlzRMagmhsVPI1tMUah3zLW0LxS6UaM/s1200/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR-7xBctLgr7u4m4N_MnnQDbhwApOVuw39wMooM699AunAQQ8N_eXKLmZCyBi_9a7-D6ID3WJcMxT9cl1cOZwUYjJb5vTC_o1aY9N0hmdSKeaE4e7EdH-OGXqoW_cwL3VZPTiQunZbyyjyf57npyYBP9badL_ixlzRMagmhsVPI1tMUah3zLW0LxS6UaM/w400-h400/2024-ImaginativeGeneralBlogTour.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-imaginative-world-of-1066.html" target="_blank"> PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b> <a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/03/exploring-world-of-imaginative-fiction_01414703351.html" target="_blank"> NEXT POST </a>></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">this month's themed tour guests:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Samantha Wilcoxson</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Anna Belfrage</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>the authors of 1066 Turned Upside Down</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Inge H. Borg</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Charlene Newcomb</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Alison Morton</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Marian L Thorpe</b></div></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1066 is the most known year in English history, and the most intriguing. It represents a key turning point: a year in which everything was up for grabs, a year in which England's historical story could have gone any number of ways - a year of ‘what ifs’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>What if</i> King Edward's great-nephew, Edgar, had been thought old enough to rule, and chosen as king? <i>What if </i>the Northern Earls has defeated the Norwegian, Harald Hardrada and King Harold's own brother, Tostig, at Gate Fulford - or <i>what if </i>Harald Hardrada had won the Battle of Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire? <i>What if</i> Harold had defeated the Normans at sea? <i>W</i></span><i>hat if </i>Svein of Denmark had invaded or a mysterious European political power had intervened? <i>W</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>hat if </i>William had died when he was unhorsed at Hastings or had been defeated at London Bridge in November? <i>What if</i> the Bayeux Tapestry carries a hidden, secret meaning about the truth of 1066 - or<i> what if </i>a time machine could alter the past?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So much could have been different and now we can explore some of those 'what ifs' in this exciting collection of ‘virtual history’ short stories, written by known and loved writers of the period (and a few from outside it) to celebrate this incredible year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://helenhollick.net" target="_blank">Helen Hollick</a>, a</b>uthor of multiple historical, nautical adventure/pirate novels, non-fiction pirates and smugglers, a new series of cosy mysteries set in the 1970s and <b><i>Harold the King (I Am The Chosen King - US Title)</i></b> the story of the events that led to the Battle of Hastings</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://www.joannacourtney.com/" target="_blank">Joanna Courtney</a>, </b>author of the <b>Queens of the Conquest </b>series </span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.annabelfrage.com/" target="_blank">Anna Belfrage</a>, </b>Historical Novel Society Indie Award Winner 2015, author of the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Graham Saga</i><b> </b>and several other superb series</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://richarddeescifi.co.uk/" target="_blank">Richard Dee</a>, fantasy sci-fi <i>and</i> steampunk</b> a<i style="font-weight: bold;">uthor</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.gkholloway.co.uk/" target="_blank">G K Holloway</a>, </b>author of<b> 1066: <i>What Fates Impose</i> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.carolcmcgrath.co.uk" target="_blank">Carol McGrath</a>, </b>author of <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Daughters of Hasting</i><b>s</b> trilogy and other series of historical fiction</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://www.alison-morton.com" target="_blank">Alison Morton</a>, </b>author of the<b> <i>Roma Nova</i> </b>alternative<b> </b>history and contemporary thrillers</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://anniewhiteheadauthor.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Annie Whitehead</b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>,</b> is a history graduate and writes about<b> Mercia and Saxon England</b> in both fiction and non-fiction</span></div>
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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Helen Hollickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-80223779981722138502024-03-05T03:00:00.150+00:002024-03-06T13:10:13.592+00:00Exploring the world of imaginative fiction with Anna Belfrage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitl7kAKSjAGh-IOtOEfdxCblGdmKakRd8x7rTUn_IdMOtNG16Mybch8pn2DrCzYJHQlQt2tH4hyphenhyphenGH3JfAVKC8enKhsZMFQpAEILSPIR2uaS0iJvSVzH4sutR2y64omH5jUA0w8jVUTxiXVeGo1XPfxXOax7IOIhAo5eP4fqdEXT0auN0_6ITYu8Ozr_Ck/s851/March%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="851" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitl7kAKSjAGh-IOtOEfdxCblGdmKakRd8x7rTUn_IdMOtNG16Mybch8pn2DrCzYJHQlQt2tH4hyphenhyphenGH3JfAVKC8enKhsZMFQpAEILSPIR2uaS0iJvSVzH4sutR2y64omH5jUA0w8jVUTxiXVeGo1XPfxXOax7IOIhAo5eP4fqdEXT0auN0_6ITYu8Ozr_Ck/w400-h148/March%202024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Let's explore time slip adventures </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>with</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Anna Belfrage's Graham Saga!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLd5X3VNk-dDOkKtFY8GNf1tucE8V_pL_kljeHT96HRunLnyoyh9-8EYopBjcM7TrGuauTlwlM54YWLhz9fhZ3LTfa9vps9E_rTnz4a8CXMMRK9cun3UA4NR1miF53W4puy_JGUi0W4dh1e70vEjzAjoCS5f_ff2eZbKMhW1GJ1aB22DPCRrtLBEiMhg/s3150/Times%20Of%20Turmoil_Ebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="2100" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLd5X3VNk-dDOkKtFY8GNf1tucE8V_pL_kljeHT96HRunLnyoyh9-8EYopBjcM7TrGuauTlwlM54YWLhz9fhZ3LTfa9vps9E_rTnz4a8CXMMRK9cun3UA4NR1miF53W4puy_JGUi0W4dh1e70vEjzAjoCS5f_ff2eZbKMhW1GJ1aB22DPCRrtLBEiMhg/w266-h400/Times%20Of%20Turmoil_Ebook.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s1357" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><b><i><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1357" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s320" width="320" /></i></b></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>About the Book</i></b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Times of Turmoil by Anna Belfrage</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;">Genres:</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> Time Travel , American Colonial Historical</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<b>It is 1718 and Duncan
Melville and his time traveller wife, Erin, are concentrating on building a
peaceful existence for themselves and their twin daughters. Difficult to do,
when they are beleaguered by enemies.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Erin Melville
is not about to stand to the side and watch as a child is abused—which is how
she makes deadly enemies of Hyland Nelson and his family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then there’s
that ghost from their past, Armand Joseph Chardon, a person they were<span style="color: red;"> </span>certain was dead. Apparently not. Monsieur Chardon
wants revenge and his sons are tasked with making Duncan—and his wife—pay. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Things aren’t
helped by the arrival of Duncan’s cousin, fleeing her abusive husband. Or the
reappearance of Nicholas Farrell in their lives, as much of a warped bully now
as he was when he almost beat Duncan to death years ago. Plus, their safety is
constantly threatened as Erin is a woman of colour in a time and place where
that could mean ostracism, enslavement or even death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Will Duncan
and Erin ever achieve their simple wish – to live and love free from fear of
those who wish to destroy them?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buy links<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Available on
Kindle Unlimited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name="_Hlk147049267">Universal
link:</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name="_Hlk147049267"></a><a href="https://mybook.to/ToTABG">https://myBook.to/ToTABG</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amazon US: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="SV">Amazon UK: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL"><span lang="SV">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL</span></a><span lang="SV"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="SV">Amazon CA:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="SV"></span><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL"><span lang="SV">https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL</span></a><span lang="SV"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="SV">Amazon AU: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL"><span lang="SV">https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CJ7FYQVL</span></a><span lang="SV"> </span><span lang="SV"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpuFFFUVzubJ78oLkxjfwNFOFNHFvrnPMSqZo2zIXfXsG1GOSGHD_TG7zH-77JfCeVN7oeZzJQWk3sbvEVe6NYxG4_dRcAoIaPHB0ViHD9X36NVctx40lXrntoG7kA82eO9BKMqEI-VxRa3LiR2_ZWJXorMdan7k74RB8RYnlhFCw1938QERQXLeumuk/s1300/Cooee-General-Promo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPpuFFFUVzubJ78oLkxjfwNFOFNHFvrnPMSqZo2zIXfXsG1GOSGHD_TG7zH-77JfCeVN7oeZzJQWk3sbvEVe6NYxG4_dRcAoIaPHB0ViHD9X36NVctx40lXrntoG7kA82eO9BKMqEI-VxRa3LiR2_ZWJXorMdan7k74RB8RYnlhFCw1938QERQXLeumuk/w308-h400/Cooee-General-Promo.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">About Anna:</b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a time-traveller. As this
was impossible, she became a financial professional with three absorbing
interests: history, romance and writing. Anna always writes about love and has
authored the acclaimed time travelling series </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Graham Saga</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, set in
17th century Scotland and Maryland, as well as the equally acclaimed medieval
series </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The King’s Greatest Enemy</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> which is set in 14th century
England.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">More recently, she has
published </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">The Whirlpools of Time</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and its sequel, </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Times of Turmoil</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">—both
of these are time travel romances. Anna is presently about to release </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Their
Castilian Orphan</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, the final instalment of The Castilian Saga, a four books
series set in the last few decades of the 13th century</span></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Find
out more about Anna, her books and enjoy her eclectic historical blog on her
website: </span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.annabelfrage.com">www.annabelfrage.com</a></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">X/Twitter</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://twitter.com/abelfrageauthor" style="font-family: inherit;">https://twitter.com/abelfrageauthor</a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Making things hard for you <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many years ago, I was at a writer’s conference. It was my first ever
such conference, and I was feverish with excitement. I had finished my first
book and had managed to get a couple of slots with agents, so I was sort of
hoping that I’d float out of that conference with a publishing contract in my
hand. Did not happen, of course. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did happen was that one of the agents tilted his head to the side
and asked me “Why the time travel?” He was clearly not a fan. I tried to
explain that to me, reading books with a time travel angle increases the immersive
experience, because it is someone coming from my world that has to grapple with
whatever is happening in the past. Someone who has never worn a corset or eaten
day-old oatmeal for breakfast, now served as lumpy squares. The agent responded
with a “hmm”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In <i>Times of Turmoil</i>—and in its prequel, <i>The Whirlpools of Time</i>—I
have a woman of colour as my protagonist. That did NOT happen on purpose, Erin
just popped into my head, and that was that. Erin was born in 1990. For her to
end up in the 18<sup>th</sup> century comes with many, many challenges—but what
I had not really thought through beforehand was how the colour of her skin
would affect her new life. Suddenly, my well-educated, ambitious Erin was
viewed with scorn—or suspicion. What was a coloured hussy doing, wed to an
upstanding white man? Erin would tell you she had little choice in the matter,
Duncan realising almost immediately that for her to survive in the early 1700s
she needed the protection of his name and status. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Duncan is determined to protect his wife. He is also homesick, which is
why they travel back to Maryland. Bad, bad choice. Very bad choice, as Maryland
was one of the earliest adopters of the anti-miscegenation laws that stated a
white person could not marry a person of colour. Ever. Consequences were dire:
enslavement—for both. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is why they end up in Pennsylvania, because at the time, the colony
founded by William Penn had no such laws, and Quakers were in general sceptical
to the concept of slavery. At least initially. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought that by transferring them to just north of Chester,
Pennsylvania, I had finally brought them into a safe harbour. I should have
deepened my research, because while Pennsylvania in 1718 had no discriminatory
laws, by 1726 the colony adopted legislation making cohabitation of marriage
between people of different “races” illegal. Suddenly, Times of Turmoil was not
only a story about Duncan and Erin battling the ghosts from their recent
adventures in Scotland, but also about protecting Erin from constant defamation
while Duncan spent nights worrying about their future. Where to go next?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had not intended to write a book about the plight of coloured people
in Colonial America. But it would have been impossible to write <i>Times of
Turmoil</i> with any sort of credible historical background without including
this disturbing element of human history. That, dear peeps, was much, much
harder than I thought it would be! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She should probably have kept her
mouth shut. But Erin Melville wasn’t the type of woman who turned the other way
when a big, hulking brute of a man chose to punish a scrawny boy in the middle
of the street. Especially not when the asshole was using a whip on the child.
So she waded in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Stop!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This is no
matter for you to meddle in,” the man snarled, bringing the crop down in yet
another vicious strike across the boy’s narrow shoulders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Erin shoved
him. “He’s bleeding!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“As he
should! A worthless, useless servant is what he is!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Servant? The
boy was at most twelve—or so she guessed, given his size. Too thin, the linen
of his worn shirt clinging to a knobbly spine and bony shoulder blades. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The man
raised the crop. Erin placed herself between him and the boy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Move!” He
was sweating, the broken veins on his nose and chin looking almost purple
against the red of his skin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“No.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Fine,” he
sneered. “I dare say you’ve tasted a crop once or twice, hey? Once a slave—” He
broke off on a yelp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Best not
finish that,” Duncan said, blue eyes flashing. Erin smiled at her husband,
received a frown in return. She sighed inwardly. <i>Inconspicuous,</i> she
reminded herself, <i>you should always strive to be inconspicuous.</i> Well, so
Duncan thought at any rate, hemming and hawing when he verbalised that she did
not need to bring attention to the fact that she was a woman of colour. Not
something to be flouted in a day and age where anyone with less than lily-white
skin was suspected of being a slave, at least here in the American colonies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Erin’s
opinion, just being a woman was something of a trial in the year 1718. There
were definitely days when she longed for her other life in the twenty-first
century. Until she remembered that had she not fallen through time in 2016,
she’d likely have been burned to a crisp in the fire engulfing her home.
Discreetly, she took a couple of deep breaths, attempting to calm her
thundering pulse: a time traveller, an impossibility, that’s who she was, and
should anyone find out . . . well, being a woman of colour would be a walk in
the park in comparison! She swallowed, took yet another breath and redirected
her attention to her husband and the man with the crop. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“There’s no
hiding it, is there?” the unknown brute sneered. “Look at her: where did you
find her? In one of the French colonies? After all, everyone knows those
Frenchies are happy to fornicate with their slaves.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“As are the
English colonists,” Duncan retorted. “But my wife is not—has never been—a
slave.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“No? Her
skin says otherwise.” The brute laughed. “Should I find her alone, I’d claim
her as mine and—” Whatever he had intended to say became a loud gurgle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Careful,”
Duncan said, releasing the man to double over and gasp for breath. “Anyone
touches my wife best be prepared to meet me at dawn—to die.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxNYKgOPDaxZ-VFaVL14QnImrmI5L2WcxQ8Hq9JAZapD4qGC95TQA56RDNmiHo-ghzEpGmfj4VN48SmzkTYxEq989o45Ff4GVNR6r7ANNRwZ3j7XD_UkfbXo_vnC35QXfT0gMjCPMhx6P1TW2mvtFW9roUIgLwo4uSOhoqIzlXi6BbptE5vUFIZ9R2eA/s511/MJ%20Porter%20Loving%20post%20United_States_slave_trade,_1830_LCCN2008661746_(cropped).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-indent: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="511" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxNYKgOPDaxZ-VFaVL14QnImrmI5L2WcxQ8Hq9JAZapD4qGC95TQA56RDNmiHo-ghzEpGmfj4VN48SmzkTYxEq989o45Ff4GVNR6r7ANNRwZ3j7XD_UkfbXo_vnC35QXfT0gMjCPMhx6P1TW2mvtFW9roUIgLwo4uSOhoqIzlXi6BbptE5vUFIZ9R2eA/w400-h179/MJ%20Porter%20Loving%20post%20United_States_slave_trade,_1830_LCCN2008661746_(cropped).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MJ Porter Loving post United_States_slave_trade,_1830_LCCN2008661746_(cropped).jpg</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyR_edjO_8MibL84qdcMpu5CsGBA5dYf-fC52nW8LxzouhLU5w-ne0I1Wsw26XJtc3fs9uaB8p-9zI-lugw5m3Laza8LRl78Vqt4ua6BXsfC9Jv4uhyMGvRFgfb1El_9ZDPBEWWxCcmbEzCu0klaxH14eB4m4X_NPSMmSdBVyttC7tW6ukL1AbYWx-SqY/s1280/qA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="1280" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyR_edjO_8MibL84qdcMpu5CsGBA5dYf-fC52nW8LxzouhLU5w-ne0I1Wsw26XJtc3fs9uaB8p-9zI-lugw5m3Laza8LRl78Vqt4ua6BXsfC9Jv4uhyMGvRFgfb1El_9ZDPBEWWxCcmbEzCu0klaxH14eB4m4X_NPSMmSdBVyttC7tW6ukL1AbYWx-SqY/s320/qA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">1. What was the first novel you read that made you think: ‘Wow, I want to write like this!’</span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">. <b>Very difficult question! Amanda Quick perhaps? (Her dialogue, her humour) Sharon Penman? (because she writes epic in a way that has me bawling) Ruth Rendell? (Her precise use of words, her excellent syntax and tight prose…)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">2. What book (fiction or nonfiction) is a treasure that you’d pass on to a grandchild</span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">? <b>My very battered Lord of the Rings copy</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">3. If you could have a holiday anywhere in the world (for free!) where would you go?</span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;"> <b>I would like to ride or hike across the Continental Divide in the US, taking my time to enjoy all the natural beauty along the way.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">4. Your favourite time period – and why</span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">. <b>I don’t have a favourite time period. I have a very NON-Favourite period which is Tudor England. Yes, I can enjoy a book set then, but I would never, ever write a book which (however indirectly) might feature Henry VIII, Mary I or Elizabeth I.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">6. Name one thing you regret that you <i>didn’t</i> do</span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">. <b>I should have believed in myself and my story-telling abilities when I was young. I should have dared to follow my dream back then, instead of opting for the safer, more conventional life</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">7. </span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">Name one thing you’re pleased that you <i>did</i> do</span><span style="line-height: 19.26px;">. <b>Have my four beautiful children. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>let's explore some alternate endings </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>with</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Samantha Wilcoxson</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvsn0U_Wxdzke1pc0eQKBiHHX_z-0QpIaIEzZLT1xNV5kWxjDWzK2DRoYT1E7upoQ2IpG4eAqmvmbUsh7MxPn7A6DZb0Hge4XX6ycTBY3tEKBOXvHMJ9MSCai6DBfaeKQqxdguc8GUYsR3NnHjIf9LathLe2Sv90F882Y4afC8qAjkpfswTeRq_r3Js4/s2560/Alternate%20Endings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvsn0U_Wxdzke1pc0eQKBiHHX_z-0QpIaIEzZLT1xNV5kWxjDWzK2DRoYT1E7upoQ2IpG4eAqmvmbUsh7MxPn7A6DZb0Hge4XX6ycTBY3tEKBOXvHMJ9MSCai6DBfaeKQqxdguc8GUYsR3NnHjIf9LathLe2Sv90F882Y4afC8qAjkpfswTeRq_r3Js4/w250-h400/Alternate%20Endings.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Alternate Endings</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is a short story anthology from Historical Writers Forum. We asked
our members, “If you could change history, would you?” The imagined histories
that resulted are a fun what-if journey through the past, from ancient Rome
through the Tudor era and American Revolution. <i>Alternate Endings</i> is a
great opportunity to read eight stories and find your next favorite author!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Universal Link: <a href="http://mybook.to/AltEnd">mybook.to/AltEnd </a></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg622x7oQdaZx6GiFdtUAWIdJ8Qhr6DkLlHoNX1X4YtXO0lgNQANj_NVWPFYcHt-31KqaYK_UnOm_BZRSZOdZJSmErB1J_wYChX7Fn_atwbC1YVS0in4f0yAA_L_R_oXNh_4zogliVk2w30wbcRiqQn0km2Fooxra_yMw4Kd-b6TRbNE3w9yy-MuCC3Trs/s2731/BNFairfax1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2731" data-original-width="2714" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg622x7oQdaZx6GiFdtUAWIdJ8Qhr6DkLlHoNX1X4YtXO0lgNQANj_NVWPFYcHt-31KqaYK_UnOm_BZRSZOdZJSmErB1J_wYChX7Fn_atwbC1YVS0in4f0yAA_L_R_oXNh_4zogliVk2w30wbcRiqQn0km2Fooxra_yMw4Kd-b6TRbNE3w9yy-MuCC3Trs/w398-h400/BNFairfax1.jpg" width="398" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Samantha Wilcoxson</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> is part of the Historical Writers Forum admin team, and she has
contributed a story to <i>Alternate Endings</i> that imagines a happier ending
for Queen Mary I. Samantha is the author of emotive historical fiction and
nonfiction that enables readers to connect with historical figures. She loves
bringing lesser-known people into the spotlight with her biographical fiction
and nonfiction works. Her most recent novel, <i>But One Life</i>, tells the
story of American patriot Nathan Hale. She has also written about the tragedy
of the radium girls in <i>Luminous</i>. Samantha is currently working on a
biography of James Alexander Hamilton to be published by Pen & Sword
History.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Besides reading and writing, Samantha loves
travelling and visiting historic sites. Join her on social media to see where
she is going next!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first book that I remember wishing, “Wow,
I want to write like this!” was <i>The Sunne in Splendour </i>by Sharon Kay
Penman. I know I’m not alone in my admiration of her work or in the
desirability to write an alternate ending for Richard III. Other inspirations
of mine include Charlotte Bronte and Edith Wharton, so you can see I appreciate
the emotional impact of a tragic ending.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I chose to write my <i>Alternate Endings</i>
story about Queen Mary I because I have had a soft spot for her ever since
writing <i>Queen of Martyrs</i>. I didn’t want to change history too much, and,
in truth, I adjusted Elizabeth’s story just as much as Mary’s. I at least
wanted to give Mary some bit of the happiness that had eluded her in life, so I
had her select a more suitable husband. Oh, what a difference that would have
made!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps, if I found a genie in a bottle, I
would wish for Mary to rethink her selection of Prince Philip of Spain, but we
never know what impact the ripples of changes like that would make. So, maybe
instead, I would wish for a tropical writing retreat like Hemingway’s
surrounded by six-toed cats. Call me an optimist, but I can’t think of too many
things that I would wish for that I don’t have. Riches and fame don’t seem to
make people happy, so I’ll stay in my little life, thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One thing I might change would be the
decision to start writing. I wish I had done so sooner! Where might I be if a
mentor in high school or college encouraged me to focus on history or writing?
I’ll never know, but I’m thankful that my husband urged me to start when he did.
I love telling the stories of people who are sometimes left out of the big
history books. We have so much in common with people of the past if we care to
get to know them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m also glad that I accepted the
opportunity to write a short story for <i>Alternate Endings</i>. My first
thought was, “I don’t write alternate history – or short stories!” I worried
that I didn’t have the imagination for a plot that wasn’t based on known
history, but I ended up having a lot of fun with it and the other fantastic
authors who were a part of this project. Everything we haven’t done is just
something we haven’t done yet!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;">Website</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://samanthawilcoxson.co">https://samanthawilcoxson.co</a>m</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;">Blog</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><a href="https://samanthawilcoxson.blogspot.com/">https://samanthawilcoxson.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">Purchase link: <a href="https://mybook.to/LeopardsMouth">https://mybook.to/LeopardsMouth</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Goodreads link: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151526805-try-the-leopard-s-mouth">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151526805-try-the-leopard-s-mouth</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Genre: Recent historical fiction; colonial Africa</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Print length: 375 pages</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Age range: This is an adult book but could be suitable for mature older teenagers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Trigger warnings: racial oppression and violence; violent death</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Amazon rating: 5*</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>AFRICA 1970</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Briony and Tom, both in their twenties, are very different characters. But opposites attract. In business, as in love, they complement each other.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">They buy a farm and discover a rare drug. Tom grows it and Briony markets it. At first, they are oblivious of their responsibilities to the land and its people. But gradually they realise that they have been supporting a racist and colonialist regime.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The onset of the Rhodesian – Zimbabwean War of Independence tears at the couple’s relationship. Misunderstandings arise from their conflicting personalities and from external pressures. Events pull them apart, but also bind them together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Try the Leopard’s Mouth</i> is a romantic thriller set in Africa. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Charles Moberly’s novels are different from one another in style and genre. He likes to push boundaries, and to address subjects rarely covered by other writers. If there is a common theme, it is tension arising from misunderstandings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Moberly has written three novels to date: The Scrotum Toad, a satirical comedy; The Corncrake, a historical novel set in 1909-10 and 1914-15; and Try the Leopard’s Mouth, a romantic thriller with a firm historical base . All three novels are available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In his second novel, The Corncrake, four members of a family share the narration, which passes between them over two hundred and fifty times. This powerful technique allows the reader to enter the minds of characters as they react to events, so that love, conflicts and misunderstandings are conveyed immediately. This is only possible if the voices of the characters are so strong that they are identifiable the moment they speak.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Moberly lived and worked in Africa for two years. Two of his novels are set in Africa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Website: <a href="https://charlesmoberlyauthor.blogspot.com">https://charlesmoberlyauthor.blogspot.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuoAmi3EtGuWolU_mrS_LE-y-g9NVEcfwLhQmmKpgnuonq2PFRq-vzXZDYx56CfDEci8UWq0A1o-Fk7fU2LcN-dSRUWkaSa3DvPuXB7DiXA_YgJMWumeFcpt0Iw0fjcZLWbX9AOFOTISmQMaXeXImFEWJtuqS4kmvbbPvfKyPQvaFP4UKILXwOAYFnHXw/s978/Trusted%20Reviewer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="955" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuoAmi3EtGuWolU_mrS_LE-y-g9NVEcfwLhQmmKpgnuonq2PFRq-vzXZDYx56CfDEci8UWq0A1o-Fk7fU2LcN-dSRUWkaSa3DvPuXB7DiXA_YgJMWumeFcpt0Iw0fjcZLWbX9AOFOTISmQMaXeXImFEWJtuqS4kmvbbPvfKyPQvaFP4UKILXwOAYFnHXw/w195-h200/Trusted%20Reviewer.png" width="195" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYlw23e3D9m4mdsvwf0c9lHaaJjpUeINru7gmwMqc_LL2iDXcGJEv-HkYcbVbEfEJWvbJsIey_1yqINTy62CWQvYeos-vz84YJW1rN2gYSY6FSYEQoe6tHSOSyME8-X3NMxTxfylIsoqZd6er9qX3fsHqhnzyc5OJxZP-HgArQv10dCcexWnIhATM/s1280/girl-160172_1280.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYlw23e3D9m4mdsvwf0c9lHaaJjpUeINru7gmwMqc_LL2iDXcGJEv-HkYcbVbEfEJWvbJsIey_1yqINTy62CWQvYeos-vz84YJW1rN2gYSY6FSYEQoe6tHSOSyME8-X3NMxTxfylIsoqZd6er9qX3fsHqhnzyc5OJxZP-HgArQv10dCcexWnIhATM/w100-h200/girl-160172_1280.png" width="100" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>My review</b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have to state that I know Charles, until a few years ago he was my neighbour - I was sad to see him move away with his lovely wife, Andrea, who has since passed away. I'll never forget how welcoming they were when we moved to Devon. That said, I have been a published author for over thirty years now, so along the way I have come to know many writers who have subsequently become good friends, and, naturally, I read their books. If I enjoy the read I leave a review - an honest one, which is what I have done here...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I think the most remarkable thing about Charles Moberly, as a relatively new author, is that all four of his novels, so far, are totally different in style and plot to each other, which shows just how <i>good </i>a writer he actually is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is what I posted non Amazon:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There are several things I enjoyed about <i>Try The Leopard's Mouth</i>, the tale itself, the characters, the competent writing, but principally - the location and setting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">How refreshing to read a novel that is not set in Tudor or Jane Austen's England, but in Africa during the 1970s and the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean War of Independence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Mr Moberly is very talented in his writing, bringing Africa vividly to life - I'd say very much on a level with Wilbur Smith in his heyday. As a romance and a thriller the tale should satisfy many readers, and as a look at the difficult history of the period <i>Try The Leopard's Mouth</i> is sensitively and expertly done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The cover too, (designed by <a href="http://www.avalongraphics.org">www.avalongraphics.org</a>) is beautifully depicted, superbly adding to the evocative atmosphere of the book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Recommended read.</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>***** </b></span>5 Stars - awarded with great pleasure</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://mybook.to/trytheleopardsmouth " target="_blank"><b>https://mybook.to/trytheleopardsmouth </b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>More Praise for <i>Try The Leopard’s Mouth</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Winner of Highly Recommended Award by The Historical Fiction Company, who commented:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Moberly is a mastermind in his craft. Painting an image so vivid of 1970s Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe, with its lush rolling hills, fertile farmland, roaring waters and rich culture that any reader would feel as though they’ve been dropped into the middle of the African bush. For they are to feel as drawn to it as the characters of the story, regretting when the time comes that they must leave. He has woven a tale of incredible stakes. A country at war with racism embedded into the very foundation of its start.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We are thrust into the middle of the goings on and the history of the story delivered is precise, it’s harsh in its truth, but it’s emotional and sucks the reader in so they are as immersed as the characters are in the plot. A man who just wants to be a farmer is sucked in by the angel he’d never intended to meet and his world of simplicity turns into one of politics, warfare and a drug that can only be fuel to the fire.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I was knocked sideways by this book. I ended up staying up all night to finish it, and although it is in no way a sentimental book, at the end I was weeping – not for the main characters but for the country and for some of the minor characters who had moved me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It is beautifully written – summoning a time and a place with deft strokes and capturing the lived reality of a terrible period of colonial history. Goodreads review</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There are several things I enjoyed about this book, the tale itself, the characters, the competent writing, but principally – the location and setting. ….as a look at the difficult history of the period Try The Leopard’s Mouth is sensitively and expertly done. Amazon review</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Excellent read. I will read it again. Recommend. Amazon review</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">COFFEE AND THORN PROMOTES QUALITY FICTION, FOCUSING ON WORK PUBLISHED INDEPENDENTLY OR THROUGH SMALL PUBLISHING HOUSES. 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Harlond,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Helen Hollick, Loretta Livingstone, Amy Maroney Alison Morton,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Charlene Newcomb, Elizabeth St.John, Marian L Thorpe, Annie Whitehead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With an introduction by Deborah Swift</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">*</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">NON-FICTION</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="background-color: #f4ead7;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Helen Hollickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132364668526714411.post-26550229037619942012024-03-01T03:00:00.202+00:002024-03-13T12:39:40.089+00:00Thoughts from a Devonshire Farmhouse - March 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxCtg1tHMFCku6Dc3_lJjAZ113UmXjZqDI4KNpft5S5WYHxoGjFIVMWKxvYFtN4DBxVup1IIH5QmJ5UZnNTOVWgldmkflaH4tq9a9asXuTrA9qWH20PTuzHGw1o7UyVzK0jWlLoeNFacRVlF6gLFVZSgHSCBTzSGS9_WhYdQ_uANOdusgTUQo0GLlT-c/s1200/Newsletter%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxCtg1tHMFCku6Dc3_lJjAZ113UmXjZqDI4KNpft5S5WYHxoGjFIVMWKxvYFtN4DBxVup1IIH5QmJ5UZnNTOVWgldmkflaH4tq9a9asXuTrA9qWH20PTuzHGw1o7UyVzK0jWlLoeNFacRVlF6gLFVZSgHSCBTzSGS9_WhYdQ_uANOdusgTUQo0GLlT-c/w400-h400/Newsletter%202024.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">FROM THE BACK</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Did you
come across those charming sketches of the late Queen Elizabeth II as drawn
from behind? There are several of them, I think they started with one of H.M.
with Paddington Bear and a corgi after the Jubilee celebration, but then came some
poignant ones at her passing, several of which brought tears to our eyes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfivHIvypZsaaX14fmlSQu-8zkoUtH057M_-dzZ4mLZJEkfmaTgO6g2IDXN9LT16ao3j8PHW9kKAYOiG8ClQuCWYvW411AI2hKagHVODrRpWuJD-jvfkH8Np6_k_keIo88DeanYamfJC84MlYFloiWZmRtSvpnjZOUKd97Is_YSrfgKdfozvnZCaIYZcA/s745/queen%203.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfivHIvypZsaaX14fmlSQu-8zkoUtH057M_-dzZ4mLZJEkfmaTgO6g2IDXN9LT16ao3j8PHW9kKAYOiG8ClQuCWYvW411AI2hKagHVODrRpWuJD-jvfkH8Np6_k_keIo88DeanYamfJC84MlYFloiWZmRtSvpnjZOUKd97Is_YSrfgKdfozvnZCaIYZcA/w309-h320/queen%203.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(©<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-62894188" target="_blank">Eleanor Tomlinson</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7i7OBHZNzOcrsHTqTrKfJ8MEqDeDbE-teraTUgszPBvFHF8E2AlJeE05egVOALN8vU3MIclqIThkuqNd5RnuZmixvJSlB-8ae7vDwetFlEqGjZ2KkvPAHeZ2nCgGOcNU9sBOtS8zjdJHvDJysoa3Cv2F74pr66C3ub2jIxYgS4qUwJPP9zP2rabVcKg/s1475/queen%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1475" data-original-width="1180" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7i7OBHZNzOcrsHTqTrKfJ8MEqDeDbE-teraTUgszPBvFHF8E2AlJeE05egVOALN8vU3MIclqIThkuqNd5RnuZmixvJSlB-8ae7vDwetFlEqGjZ2KkvPAHeZ2nCgGOcNU9sBOtS8zjdJHvDJysoa3Cv2F74pr66C3ub2jIxYgS4qUwJPP9zP2rabVcKg/w320-h400/queen%201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGqN0ZORGHkWMjql-nM40c5Yoq2fRPBBVwKhXgb5g4WYrzU2iCAonshqkOaFQDvJ4Ge6X7zCVtVoSTSMNMs-hzIaIkwafSj-IVHiI623u1USdnQhNGLnDC2EVLNsPueT9eKtobUpPguo3WqYHL26sdU2CMkGP_1BAeCQ21cU8tDxYBMkswhCgvc7jABY/s720/queen%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGqN0ZORGHkWMjql-nM40c5Yoq2fRPBBVwKhXgb5g4WYrzU2iCAonshqkOaFQDvJ4Ge6X7zCVtVoSTSMNMs-hzIaIkwafSj-IVHiI623u1USdnQhNGLnDC2EVLNsPueT9eKtobUpPguo3WqYHL26sdU2CMkGP_1BAeCQ21cU8tDxYBMkswhCgvc7jABY/w400-h400/queen%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve
Googled to see who the artist is, but there seems to be several talented young
ladies (the designers seem to mostly be female), so suffice to say they are all lovely. I am kicking myself because the
original artist was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 shortly before Christmas but <b>* </b>I
can’t remember which programme, nor can I remember her name – a delightful
young lady, though, who explained that so much more could be captured and conveyed in a
sketch when drawn from the <i>back</i>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">*<b>ADDENDUM!</b> my thanks to Denise who has tracked the artist down - <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-62894188" target="_blank">Eleanor Tomlinson</a> said that she's delighted people are getting pleasure from her drawings, but saddened that some are using them to make money. So please, remember the artist, enjoy her work but any profit made is not <i>your</i> profit!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I rarely have the faces of my characters on the covers of my books (when
commissioning my own covers from the talented Cathy Helms of <a href="http://www.avalongraphics.org/">www.avalongraphics.org</a> that is), not
necessarily because of conveying meaning but because I don’t want to influence
my readers about the character. Once a face is portrayed, there is no room for
imagination. I know exactly what my pirate, Jesamiah Acorne, looks like and
would instantly recognise him if I ever physically met him<b>*</b>, but I could never
describe him well enough to show his face on a book cover.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">* I did meet him as a ghost-like apparition for the very first time on a beach in Dorset, but alas I didn't see his face that clearly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Zc573FZP6Wnj9NHJgRBhW_LmgQ8CCH7fHbs4Q26FdbfLrFg2agorfKZCRAUkXexY3pRXeu943QdAOwQSbXov3DLS06yANv3u19EFkJpk7k-bPOq4Rq8pzY-zs5PjYNBAk3wGTtSTFWZFh87QXdALGp1sPTBHqkiJrzOgvBtrLkB3CnYmgpcrVnWFgro/s813/SW_cover_no_txt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Zc573FZP6Wnj9NHJgRBhW_LmgQ8CCH7fHbs4Q26FdbfLrFg2agorfKZCRAUkXexY3pRXeu943QdAOwQSbXov3DLS06yANv3u19EFkJpk7k-bPOq4Rq8pzY-zs5PjYNBAk3wGTtSTFWZFh87QXdALGp1sPTBHqkiJrzOgvBtrLkB3CnYmgpcrVnWFgro/w295-h400/SW_cover_no_txt.jpg" width="295" /></b></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sea Witc</b>h <br />cover without the text</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Several
years ago now a new trend of The Headless Woman was adopted for the covers of
historical novels – only part of the head being shown to disguise too much
explicit detail. (If I remember rightly, some of these were books by <a href="https://elizabethchadwick.com/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Chadwick</a>?) The idea was brilliant at first and breathed new life into a drooping in popularity of the historical fiction genre, but has became overwhelmingly overdone since then and is now rather tedious. As is, unfortunately, the now common 'back view'.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1sdh5GHLhoH56wKPUp1gxY8O83wy7qKFcOjNzH2X5XsmEk0Q0JVUeGxPSCbca0iIEtwc1xOo8cdZsvgpPyesQZvsJEoHl841E0cxVlS1YdbA5HSbSHlchhHY7MvD3Xi69cvFCYGX821WQKam6wjUYsqdd04XkRVKmw6HBW5-z4Q61Pvs6y9cn0lIkvXg/s315/lords2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1sdh5GHLhoH56wKPUp1gxY8O83wy7qKFcOjNzH2X5XsmEk0Q0JVUeGxPSCbca0iIEtwc1xOo8cdZsvgpPyesQZvsJEoHl841E0cxVlS1YdbA5HSbSHlchhHY7MvD3Xi69cvFCYGX821WQKam6wjUYsqdd04XkRVKmw6HBW5-z4Q61Pvs6y9cn0lIkvXg/w254-h400/lords2.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A back view lady I see all over the place on front covers is of a lady with flowing
locks, running or walking away with one
hand holding her long skirt or gown out, the other clutching a lantern – or
variations of holding something. Again, impressive when it first appeared, now
rather old hat as it is used too often. Having said that, this one worked well:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizjB0pGOCRjICvILqGqEyy5qNMeKEOkxW_MMjigfOgfXnkryq2LJJznfD-yAy0x2D3z7l95yyCvwUKDkp1s-t7l6catNSwyPLu55gnHV1DBl_Y9EbvMmA0Yi8u8UK8S6789P1Bu2jqSX2LZreLvYP39-uSqT_8VnQ54kogcqq_1429IwkdFOSL5PTDsAI/s240/enchanted%20swans.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizjB0pGOCRjICvILqGqEyy5qNMeKEOkxW_MMjigfOgfXnkryq2LJJznfD-yAy0x2D3z7l95yyCvwUKDkp1s-t7l6catNSwyPLu55gnHV1DBl_Y9EbvMmA0Yi8u8UK8S6789P1Bu2jqSX2LZreLvYP39-uSqT_8VnQ54kogcqq_1429IwkdFOSL5PTDsAI/w400-h400/enchanted%20swans.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">These are
stock images, of course, either cheap to purchase or even free, so of great
benefit to us indie writers who already have to dig behind the sofa cushions to
find every penny towards producing our books for you to read, and hopefully enjoy. Paying for
graphics designers and professional editors and necessary marketing, is
costly and we rarely break even, let alone make a profit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Writing can
be a darn silly job, yet still we do it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Leaving book covers aside, does ‘back’
convey a wrong impression? Back cover, back lane, back road, back view, back
garden? Do these all imply the status of a slightly lesser importance? My back garden is
actually the orchard, it has more trees and shrubs than garden plants –
discounting the daffodils, cowslips, roses, wildflowers and a few bits and bobs
I have no idea the identity of. The back of the house is not as impressive as
the front, being that parts of it are newer-built and whitewashed, so no evocative
stonework on show, but I love it just as much. The back stands out more from
the train line down in the valley. If you look up at the right moment on a
sunny day you can see our house sitting, happily smug on the side of the
hill. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uL1mjgl8pWp5VM7jLRJ3xzvxEgBAq_krZN6dcXukqZg8ChqqNWazrzMtVZrC5dij0b8VybhzgSJsgwymC-Zo_EE3RDzfz-yPbkDrFtxUiN86qH_8pBPPT0RTtzk8x0vUTILGTFz5D90DxRJDKjoJ8OdHjJPtKixXZPfO6yfUtWlEJgR6rhMiwPrQDXY/s5394/IMG_7736.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3606" data-original-width="5394" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2uL1mjgl8pWp5VM7jLRJ3xzvxEgBAq_krZN6dcXukqZg8ChqqNWazrzMtVZrC5dij0b8VybhzgSJsgwymC-Zo_EE3RDzfz-yPbkDrFtxUiN86qH_8pBPPT0RTtzk8x0vUTILGTFz5D90DxRJDKjoJ8OdHjJPtKixXZPfO6yfUtWlEJgR6rhMiwPrQDXY/s320/IMG_7736.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back of the house before we had<br /> the extension flat added on the right-hand side</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Did you know that walking backwards is good for your health? An undertaking that needs to be done with care, naturally, but walking backwards is good for concentration, muscle suppleness and a variety of other healthy things. I have trouble staying upright with walking forward, so haven't exactly tried it, but here is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231110-why-walking-backwards-can-be-good-for-your-health-and-brain" target="_blank">some further information</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;">I have noticed, however, that many a top horse rider will ask his or her horse to take a few paces backwards before performing. (Showjumpers do it a lot.) My rider daughter tells me that this is to ensure the horse is listening and ready to obey commands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">How many
of us have been hurt behind our back? It seems to be a common nasty game played by
too many people – nice to your face, nasty behind you. Something
innocent like, “They’re never going to manage such a big dog,” is an innocent
remark, an expression of opinion, nothing more. Harmless, probably. More
sinister is the pretence of friendship to your face but deliberate, snide hurtfulness
behind your back is something else entirely.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Social media in particular is all too often open day for back stabbing - usually fuelled by fake gossip and rumour. Please, whatever your political or religious persuasion don't fall for it, either as a writer or a reader of such trash.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Even more
hurtful is the stab in the back, that <i>et tu Brute</i> moment. I’ve had it
and the pain eases but the scar<i> never</i> goes away. A person I thought was a dear,
trusted, friend was particularly nasty to me, accusing me of something personal and entirely
untrue. Not so much<i> what</i> was said but <i>how</i> it was said. The hatred was uttered in spiteful, jealous venom. A hasty, unthought out slip of the
tongue could be forgiven – but deliberate vitriol? It was the betrayal, the
sweeping aside of what was, in hindsight, a totally false friendship that has scarred. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Betrayal and hiding behind lies when relationships break up is another hurt. OK so love falters, the shine and the novelty wears off, a relationship starts to turn stale and suddenly the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. (A good saying to remember '<i>the grass is greener because it's watered by the cesspit overflow</i>')</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It happens. It hurts, but what hurts more is when the blatant lies are discovered and more of them crawl out of the woodwork. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So
betrayal is as bad as deliberate sniping. The breaking down of trust, the dishonour
of inflicting hurt via an affair, divorce, abuse, bullying, racism and hiding
behind lies to mask the deception. The aftermath is always hard to deal with. Lies are particularly hurtful. And the liar <i>always</i>, eventually gets found out. If you're going to break up and walk out at least have the decency to be honest about it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In songs,
‘back’ usually conveys a broken romance,
yearning for what once was, sadness or regret, a pleading to start again, to go
back to the good times. <i>Baby Come Back</i> – Player, <i>If I Could Turn Back
Time</i> – Cher, <i>Back to Black</i> – Amy Winehouse. For most of these songs
I’m left thinking, “Frankly, you’re better off without him/her.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Is it
wise to look back into the past? Depends on the reason I suppose. To recall
happy – or even sad – memories is no bad thing. To look back with bitter regret is
maybe not so good. Better to look forward at what could be a good future rather
than mourn what was a bad past. Understanding history is essential, though, for
it is through the events of the past that, in theory, we learn for the future.
No one seems to be learning the lessons of the two World Wars at the moment, or the implications of slavery or apartheid, or the inhumanity of dictatorship.
Human nature, alas, is not sweetness and caring, it’s more self and want, want,
want. And the 'want' is usually for wealth and power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Politicians
who dismiss history as unimportant irritate me, not just its significance for
recalling and acting upon mistakes of the past, but the occasional overwhelming
ignorance that turns up. I’ll not name him (but I expect you can guess), I was
astounded when I heard that this someone had said words to the effect of: “The American
War of Independence would have been won in a day if Washington had used ’planes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Well yes,
perfectly true. Just a pity aircraft had not been invented during the late
1700s, so a rather stupid and totally irrelevant statement. (For the record, at
the start of that war, the American Colonies didn’t even have a Navy!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
things, I admit, are good to look back on. TV repeats at Christmas as example. I
don’t mean the same movies every year (although <i>Mary Poppins</i>, <i>Sound
Of Music</i> and <i>Toy Story</i> 1 have no objection to.) I still laugh at <i>Morcambe
and Wise</i>. Their superb, hilarious sketches have a timelessness about them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Going
back to London where I used to live is not an option now. No thanks, I’ve had more than
my fill of London. But ‘Back’ does come in useful when a threat is required.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“If you
don’t look after my garden when I’m gone,” I have been heard to say to my
daughter, “I’ll be back to haunt you.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Given
that our house is full of ghosts from the past, she knows I’m not joking!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Bye for
now – I’ll be back next month. One way or another.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>lege feliciter</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">(read happily)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4JPBsMUPlyaN3QCwkKG2Tz37njNWmvOZMVv1TVb2jzXBCwp3tBvCzQiRhGFKY7nK8BnZWHQMKXVt8RnXtIwxjMZ81YpTRX_nVhp9JNnZN6ZeGbFHbQtCUpJPjlsq-2_lnY6YCf1Gg-DANtaNqCMUdftoR23vRTOVUyTN-VIhfMyIG9Mx42RKmElUKyM/s65/HelenSig5aSmall.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="58" data-original-width="65" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4JPBsMUPlyaN3QCwkKG2Tz37njNWmvOZMVv1TVb2jzXBCwp3tBvCzQiRhGFKY7nK8BnZWHQMKXVt8RnXtIwxjMZ81YpTRX_nVhp9JNnZN6ZeGbFHbQtCUpJPjlsq-2_lnY6YCf1Gg-DANtaNqCMUdftoR23vRTOVUyTN-VIhfMyIG9Mx42RKmElUKyM/s1600/HelenSig5aSmall.gif" width="65" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">(Next time: Those Great Gaps and Gaping Holes)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQyJZOhEztjbcBwCCXvaL-qUvWGLTIbfLkbXnFngFJun3CWvW6n-b6lbrgay_pwZEooFAa4R2URuipZHKAtvYX6PhdHbybrvDsQVh4_8ycyulm-AG_0jNXt2LBXTxxeehQFFaDR877oj4oyjVziUwvSrmpfM1bGCQS_StAd7LEMv1MO0Bipt5a6lhteHo/s2560/P1010582.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQyJZOhEztjbcBwCCXvaL-qUvWGLTIbfLkbXnFngFJun3CWvW6n-b6lbrgay_pwZEooFAa4R2URuipZHKAtvYX6PhdHbybrvDsQVh4_8ycyulm-AG_0jNXt2LBXTxxeehQFFaDR877oj4oyjVziUwvSrmpfM1bGCQS_StAd7LEMv1MO0Bipt5a6lhteHo/w400-h300/P1010582.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Sad to say, we lost our beautiful boy, Baz <br />(centre Labrador/Collie cross) at the end of February. <br />We miss him very much. <br />He's buried in our orchard.</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>< <a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/02/thoughts-from-devonshire-farmhouse.html" target="_blank">Previous Thoughts from a Devonshire Farmhouse </a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-coffee-pot-book-club-guest-trish.html" target="_blank"> Previous Guest Post</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIi0Y0DaL_He6Ihe-9ipW5WK81jJRy4G7r2SpBKsNWWu_a4LIGpw6B-Jrf8YXQ-_88hyphenhyphenZB1tSHg3HC04BCM9MuJqVO7ZoRZohF8ypeY8dNpbZutcxuGIPo5eicy_x3KMWTM7gpu7Gvo4fdTLdCMSkOVOmcQ0a0l4_0VeGVFpvFYUH1MCiRTFdtjE8xAw/s35/leaves.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="35" data-original-width="35" height="35" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIi0Y0DaL_He6Ihe-9ipW5WK81jJRy4G7r2SpBKsNWWu_a4LIGpw6B-Jrf8YXQ-_88hyphenhyphenZB1tSHg3HC04BCM9MuJqVO7ZoRZohF8ypeY8dNpbZutcxuGIPo5eicy_x3KMWTM7gpu7Gvo4fdTLdCMSkOVOmcQ0a0l4_0VeGVFpvFYUH1MCiRTFdtjE8xAw/s1600/leaves.gif" width="35" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s1357" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="1357" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07vxo43G4M6YDtwanjT7fHYD7X_UefOKDwRyzqd2qpk--FtiBcAurkjq8HLOQUYFWV0jsIQ-Yj5S-WwUmeUMJKOKTUuUw0RNRM04gJR5h5L-PAJePsovPzTyJyuyHqCLr7VISBFYN5ysMeVW4SiO-1mIxpPLvOrrm15RY094kyXAgIyGCc2pebFTQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>About the Book</b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Book Title: Cinnamon Girl</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Author: Trish MacEnulty</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Publication Date: September 11th, 2023</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Publisher: Livingston Press</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Page Length: 311</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Genre: Historical YA (but boomers love it, too)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Winner of the Gold Medal in YA Fiction from The Historical Fiction Company!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When her beloved step-grandmother, a semi-retired opera singer, dies of cancer in 1970, 15-year-old Eli Burnes runs away with a draft-dodger, thinking she's on the road to adventure and romance. What she finds instead is a world of underground Weathermen, Black Power revolutionaries, snitches and shoot-first police.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Eventually Eli is rescued by her father, who turns out both more responsible and more revolutionary than she'd imagined. But when he gets in trouble with the law, she finds herself on the road again, searching for the allies who will help her learn how to save herself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"The book is a fantastic read: fast-moving, full of smoothly woven historical detail and rich characterizations, all told in Eli's appealing voice." —<i> Sarah Johnson, Reading the Past</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Buy Link:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Universal Buy Link: <a href="https://books2read.com/u/3Ldonw">https://books2read.com/u/3Ldonw</a> </div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhSXSpDQ1oRhhx_uHLFAI2lBbE2Varn-iUL5cmOowJxQKgF8NlmTcS2aB_6PZ8NohiPWVv4hbWqbD6VkPczMjFUEV4-OmBdgp6FQPoey23hUsKRrKH9S4oOI63NiObuJnt2Ei-LWCeZebbqxD8lXBcrvzdRHAp8Cy3jPIU3K4gqb3XWc6t4Wl8Iby67co/s480/IG%20banner%20Cinnamon%20Girl.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhSXSpDQ1oRhhx_uHLFAI2lBbE2Varn-iUL5cmOowJxQKgF8NlmTcS2aB_6PZ8NohiPWVv4hbWqbD6VkPczMjFUEV4-OmBdgp6FQPoey23hUsKRrKH9S4oOI63NiObuJnt2Ei-LWCeZebbqxD8lXBcrvzdRHAp8Cy3jPIU3K4gqb3XWc6t4Wl8Iby67co/w400-h400/IG%20banner%20Cinnamon%20Girl.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyIefmrhWO4KyL3X74Yyl7hsQbBXFA6KY8uSFZ_buxSVkm_ZLZD5n3ht3FpN09m61b3KYEr2OT0yOoa3p_7CFRnR4tr-Jr8zRQCpxscWl5WIcAClKOSxCgGQ7IDgjnkLQXYSibFPTFgPARUV1qxTj8e_MCs206WPBG1aduZZROy0a-30A5vkyCJ0BG=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyIefmrhWO4KyL3X74Yyl7hsQbBXFA6KY8uSFZ_buxSVkm_ZLZD5n3ht3FpN09m61b3KYEr2OT0yOoa3p_7CFRnR4tr-Jr8zRQCpxscWl5WIcAClKOSxCgGQ7IDgjnkLQXYSibFPTFgPARUV1qxTj8e_MCs206WPBG1aduZZROy0a-30A5vkyCJ0BG=w200-h133" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Read An Excerpt</b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon Girl by Trish MacEnulty</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Excerpt #3</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Wolfgang and I walked down past the elementary school. I thought we would take the streets because it was night but Wolfgang cut across the street toward the playground. I would never have ventured into the playground at night by myself. I raced to catch up with him. I didn’t know what to say to him but he didn’t seem to need me to say anything. We cut across the big field of grass. There were plenty of streetlights but when we passed under the trees it was dark. I took a deep breath.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Isn’t this exhilarating?” I asked, trying out this new word that felt like marshmallow cream in my mouth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wolfgang grunted a short quick laugh.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When we got to the swing set, Wolfgang sat on one of the swings and lit a cigarette. He was way too tall for the swing and his skinny legs stuck out, his big shoes scraping across the dirt. He didn’t offer me a cigarette, and I didn’t question why we had stopped. Maybe he had forgotten what we were supposed to be doing. I lay down on one of the rubbery swings on my belly and held my arms out like I was flying. My shadow sailed back and forth underneath me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I looked over at Wolfgang, and for a moment his glance fell into mine. Then he looked away. Wolfgang was not like any other boy I knew. Most older boys were mean, but Wolfgang tolerated Gretchen and me. It wasn’t that he liked us much, but he didn’t hate us either. I sat up in the swing and placed my legs on either side swinging sideways instead of back and forth. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Wolfgang,” I said, “Gretchen’s already been kissed.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He looked over at me with his bushy eyebrows slightly arched.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“So?”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I’ve never kissed anyone, and I’m almost fifteen. Do you think I’m ugly?”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wolfgang looked away, which confused me until I realized he was trying to hold in his laughter. Then he cocked his head sideways and said, “Do you want me to kiss you, Eli Burnes? Is that what you want?”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I nodded my head. I did want him to kiss me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You’re too short,” Wolfgang answered. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I shrugged my shoulders and made circles in the dirt with my sneakers. Wolfgang smoked his cigarette.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Come on,” he said, standing up from the swing. “You need to get home.”</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I looked up at him.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I could stand on something,” I said.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wolfgang placed his hands on his hips and rolled his eyes. I got off the swing and walked over to a railroad tie that bordered the jungle gym. It raised me about four inches off the ground. Wolfgang came over and stood before me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Boys don’t kiss you because you’re weird,” Wolfgang said. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You’re weird, too,” I said. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I agree,” he said. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then he put his hands gently on my waist and closed his eyes as his face lowered toward mine.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuJTDHhlNnrCI63SxnfLHDOsCr14AkmYWx0VGfNG7MsMwmemNcbDQUfvB8Ou4ZR0vLeTm2WGGML2Yt8ZEVryk-FqWQxSp-GJXLmG6P3aB3Gl-m9IlkrUmcSbxpnROHPmgxrOEGZvGelT81LZGSUCw6mPuVI85NH3-kSNZm1tVcviBIwQrPr2JARiA7q4/s640/Cinnamon%20Girl%20Blog%20Tour%20Banner%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuJTDHhlNnrCI63SxnfLHDOsCr14AkmYWx0VGfNG7MsMwmemNcbDQUfvB8Ou4ZR0vLeTm2WGGML2Yt8ZEVryk-FqWQxSp-GJXLmG6P3aB3Gl-m9IlkrUmcSbxpnROHPmgxrOEGZvGelT81LZGSUCw6mPuVI85NH3-kSNZm1tVcviBIwQrPr2JARiA7q4/w400-h225/Cinnamon%20Girl%20Blog%20Tour%20Banner%202.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvIYYh9xxVEVUqamw23ba3xrI0lYKFObWRW6FchlNhqdyyBVPo6xpbcQOtxtka1H7cQKbB0yZzUU28Nxbb1HHUKdFZRwaYYjlqG2VtCqMJY42aV_5HPbY2uWeXbacgX0UlVyIExpPAhibSevJFUdMjop4No3u4M5-w3TwJA5_sLhyc0c0htfaDke2H0BI/s450/Trish%20MacEnulty.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvIYYh9xxVEVUqamw23ba3xrI0lYKFObWRW6FchlNhqdyyBVPo6xpbcQOtxtka1H7cQKbB0yZzUU28Nxbb1HHUKdFZRwaYYjlqG2VtCqMJY42aV_5HPbY2uWeXbacgX0UlVyIExpPAhibSevJFUdMjop4No3u4M5-w3TwJA5_sLhyc0c0htfaDke2H0BI/w400-h400/Trish%20MacEnulty.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the Author</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Trish MacEnulty is the author of a historical novel series, literary novels, memoirs, a short story collection, children’s plays, and most recently, the historical coming-of-age novel, Cinnamon Girl (Livingston Press, Sept. 2023). She has a Ph.D. in English from the Florida State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida. She currently writes book reviews and features for the Historical Novel Society. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">She lives in Florida with her husband Joe and her two tubby critters, Franco and Tumbleweed. More info at her website: trishmacenulty.com.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Author Links:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Website: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://trishmacenulty.com">https://trishmacenulty.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Twitter: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://twitter.com/pmacenulty">https://twitter.com/pmacenulty</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Facebook:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100055362621397">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100055362621397</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Instagram: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/trishmac_historicalfiction/">https://www.instagram.com/trishmac_historicalfiction/</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Book Bub: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/trish-macenult">https://www.bookbub.com/authors/trish-macenult</a>y </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Amazon Author Page: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Trish-MacEnulty/author/B01G4A797G">https://www.amazon.com/stores/Trish-MacEnulty/author/B01G4A797G</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15085884.Trish_MacEnulty">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15085884.Trish_MacEnulty</a> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKhMYzadF8wnpbheoT5XPQojsAmpA3Xk-d2pHDg7xUmaqSpRhv24a29cwaQsFapDOuwL3cweT6K6014GfCD0bimhanofA0MeNyIQ-D0B4hhTxjnmdQGUBUT71BYCndoL7EQvtj_vg79vEeZ_4VmbGt5C4tUGEubg6Y0btQg0D4K4cJKTQkrdu2M7RHFe0/s640/Cinnamon%20Girl%20Tour%20Schedule%20Banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKhMYzadF8wnpbheoT5XPQojsAmpA3Xk-d2pHDg7xUmaqSpRhv24a29cwaQsFapDOuwL3cweT6K6014GfCD0bimhanofA0MeNyIQ-D0B4hhTxjnmdQGUBUT71BYCndoL7EQvtj_vg79vEeZ_4VmbGt5C4tUGEubg6Y0btQg0D4K4cJKTQkrdu2M7RHFe0/w400-h225/Cinnamon%20Girl%20Tour%20Schedule%20Banner.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Follow the Tour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>< <a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-coffee-pot-book-club-guest-mk.html" target="_blank">PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Book Title: The Trail to Crooked Creek</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Series: Crooked Creek series, book 3 (stand-alone)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Author: MK McClintock</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Publication Date: February 20th, 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Publisher: Trappers Peak Publishing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Page Length: Novella</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Genre: Historical Western Romance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">(Content: PG-13 – No sex; sensual kisses; some action and violence)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHM7DKhKq-jgAlYMm32JqL2hMp4FX-nxj56ENM14Ntgywfi7z24rIhp5TTN6pvqFvYt6LVYIGB5zi7062XrvCk-L325QxpzuW8xDcMKJi9GwSpCGKua6uvljAZCgMZSwBhM4rnWikM473pyfFKwcCg6DRQ0lgbw1sMViWgv7dESeHMRWJ8W4gSfLWE3s/s480/The%20Trail%20to%20Crooked%20Creek_graphic%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHM7DKhKq-jgAlYMm32JqL2hMp4FX-nxj56ENM14Ntgywfi7z24rIhp5TTN6pvqFvYt6LVYIGB5zi7062XrvCk-L325QxpzuW8xDcMKJi9GwSpCGKua6uvljAZCgMZSwBhM4rnWikM473pyfFKwcCg6DRQ0lgbw1sMViWgv7dESeHMRWJ8W4gSfLWE3s/w400-h400/The%20Trail%20to%20Crooked%20Creek_graphic%202.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>Everyday heroes who find the courage to believe in extraordinary love.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Two years after the devastations of war left their mark on a country torn apart, Wesley Davenport, a former soldier haunted by his experiences on the battlefield crosses paths with Leah Tennyson, a teacher who helps him heal his emotional wounds—and discovers unexpected love in the most unlikely place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Trail to Crooked Creek, a novella, is a tale of resilience, compassion, and the triumph of the human spirit set in the breathtaking and sometimes unforgiving landscape of post-Civil War Montana Territory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"MK McClintock knows what readers want." ~ Readers' Favorite</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Set in post-Civil War Montana Territory, in the small town of Crooked Creek, it all started with Emma. Her story was written for a contest, but I soon realized there were more women whose tales needed to be written. The war is over between the North and the South, but the battles at home are just beginning. If you love stories of bravery and courage with unforgettable women and the men they love, you'll enjoy the Crooked Creek series. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Also Available:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Women of Crooked Creek</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Christmas in Crooked Creek</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnvQqYBoj7KY2COwyiscr_xoHvWZcMPN0TIVVwnpnjz-gLHtr7AxjBnoTVVdF22rmr1wEXz0-G9MGSIkMnBTBvRBwarxMi8tb5GLUxzUzG08uwog2j6_Ard7Src24ZumHvnrZ6eMOAVb2LU7eKI_M-9Ra4HxDwrp3zOcqAZyOzDdsnoND8xFDrdmC0ZRM/s640/The%20Trail%20to%20Crooked%20Creek%20Tour%20Banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnvQqYBoj7KY2COwyiscr_xoHvWZcMPN0TIVVwnpnjz-gLHtr7AxjBnoTVVdF22rmr1wEXz0-G9MGSIkMnBTBvRBwarxMi8tb5GLUxzUzG08uwog2j6_Ard7Src24ZumHvnrZ6eMOAVb2LU7eKI_M-9Ra4HxDwrp3zOcqAZyOzDdsnoND8xFDrdmC0ZRM/w400-h225/The%20Trail%20to%20Crooked%20Creek%20Tour%20Banner.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This title is available to read in #KindleUnlimited, in paperback and large print.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Universal Buy Link: </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://books2read.com/u/bM2N08">https://books2read.com/u/bM2N08</a> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9ckj4vrHSm7laVqZMQdxh-3PvOCWJM79axIF30-IknEz5n3z5hLWeUhZO6uaQGgjDHiKHt5mE3Rdlns-2VDZP11-KPASVGeb8ShlogBxFgb6pwV8UpDsk3p7dVmCY6-H0i0uYz6alLKoaJIV8Ap-cqr54rCJXthofjmI78D4j2lbeF0gnzqHrE9LPSs/s480/MK%20McClintock_author%20banner.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9ckj4vrHSm7laVqZMQdxh-3PvOCWJM79axIF30-IknEz5n3z5hLWeUhZO6uaQGgjDHiKHt5mE3Rdlns-2VDZP11-KPASVGeb8ShlogBxFgb6pwV8UpDsk3p7dVmCY6-H0i0uYz6alLKoaJIV8Ap-cqr54rCJXthofjmI78D4j2lbeF0gnzqHrE9LPSs/w400-h400/MK%20McClintock_author%20banner.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>About the author</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">MK McClintock is an award-winning author who writes historical romantic fiction about chivalrous men and strong women who appreciate chivalry. Her stories of romance, mystery, and adventure sweep across the American West to the Victorian British Isles with places and times between and beyond. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Her works include the following series: Montana Gallaghers, Crooked Creek, British Agents, Whitcomb Springs, and the stand-alone collection, A Home for Christmas. She is also the co-author of the McKenzie Sisters Mysteries.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">MK enjoys a quiet life in the northern Rocky Mountains. 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margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>Ancient Egypt was a time when people believed that everything that</i></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i> happened, for better or for worse, was determined by the </i></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>will of the gods. </i></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/1-the-will-of-the-gods-book-1-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/1-the-will-of-the-gods-book-1-ebook_orig.png" width="323" /></a></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>The Will of the Gods </b></span>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Book
1 </b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">by
Ian Lancaster</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Genre:
Historical Egyptian Fiction</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/thewillofthegods-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="94" data-original-width="557" height="54" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/thewillofthegods-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">The <i>Will of the Gods </i>trilogy
is a work of historical fiction set in Pharaonic Egypt during the
time of the New Kingdom. It comprises eight stories which form a
continuous narrative, following the same principal characters through
interconnected adventures. The stories are told in the first person
by the characters involved, and span a period of about fifty years
and the reigns of four kings. There are many adult themes.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
Part
1 contains:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Conspiracy
in the Sands</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">A
short story set in Ancient Egypt about a young man who loses a love
and finds a mystery.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Treason
on the Nile</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
sequel to "Conspiracy in the Sands", this extended short
story continues the adventures of the embalmer's son, now part of the
king's family. Tasked by the king to go south to restore a desecrated
tomb, neither would have believed the dangers that would follow for
either of them - and even for the kingdom itself!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Valley
of Secrets</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
third part of a series set in Ancient Egypt: the king has been
murdered and his family is in great danger. But who is the enemy?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Sceptre
of the Gods</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">A
royal tomb has been violated and a foreign power threatens the king.
How are these connected and what can be done to save the kingdom?</span></p>
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>The Will of the Gods </b></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Book
2</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/thewillofthegods-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="94" data-original-width="557" height="54" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/thewillofthegods-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
Part
2 contains:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Labyrinth
of Fear</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">A
novel set in Ancient Egypt and Minoan Crete at the time of the
cataclysmic eruption of the island of Thera (Santorini).</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>An
Alliance of Kings</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">Part
six of the Egypt Saga. Set mainly on and around the island of Crete,
where three kings meet to form an alliance against a mysterious
enemy, known as The Sea People. Old passions are reignited and new
relationships are formed, but an unpredictable encounter leads to a
tragic outcome.</span></p>
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>The Will of the Gods </b></span>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Book
3</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/thewillofthegods-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="94" data-original-width="557" height="54" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/thewillofthegods-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Part
3 contains:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>The
Curse of the Sea People</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Part
seven of the Egypt Saga. The Sea People have returned and the island
of Crete is in danger. A new king relies on family, where everyone
has a role to play and each faces difficult challenges and adventures
of their own.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Lord
of the Two Lands</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"> <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">Afraid
for the succession, a young king knows he must prove himself worthy
before the gods. His chance comes in a most unexpected way when a new
friend becomes a deadly enemy. This is the eighth and final part of
the Egypt saga.</span></p>
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>A
lockdown project inspired by ancient Egypt.</b></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Having
been a passionate avocational Egyptologist for most of my life, I
often wondered what it might have been like to live in those far-off
times. During the Covid lockdown I started writing a short story to
pass the time, and this eventually developed into a saga about just
such a fantasy (at almost 400,000 words I think it counts as a saga
anyway!).</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">It
started as a mystery involving the son of a humble embalmer who is
told to prepare the body of the king’s daughter for the afterlife.
Unknown to anyone else, however, he has secretly loved the girl for
as long as he could remember and, when he discovers that she had been
murdered, sets out to solve the mystery and prevent a plot against
the king himself. Then, in the way of all addictions, the story grew
as new adventures presented themselves and new members of the
extended family were introduced.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
eight stories which make up </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>The
Will of the Gods</i></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">
are set in Pharaonic (‘Ancient’) Egypt during the time of the New
Kingdom. Although published in three volumes, they form a continuous
narrative. They follow the same principal characters, told in the
first person, through interconnected adventures spanning about fifty
years and the reigns of four kings. This novel contains a number of
adult themes.</span></span></p>
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text-align: right;"><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/once-upon-a-princess-banner_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="800" height="149" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/once-upon-a-princess-banner_orig.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="break-after: avoid; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif">For all the
innate complications involved in finding the secret to blissful
fairy-tale love with shapeshifters, wise and discerning princesses
trust their hearts instead of their eyes and fall in love with the
unlikeliest of princes. </span>
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/1-heart-of-stone-uoap-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/1-heart-of-stone-uoap-ebook_orig.png" width="323" /></a></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Heart of Stone </b></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Once
Upon a Princess Book 1 </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">by
Deborah A. Bailey</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Genre:
Fairy Tale Fantasy Romance </span>
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<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the ruins of a country
destroyed by a curse. Princess Leesa goes looking for a way to help
her people. Desperate to find an item of value to trade for supplies,
she trespasses into an abandoned palace.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">
There, she finds
more than she bargained for when she encounters a lonely Gargoyle who
offers to provide her with everything she needs, for a price.<br />
<br />
A
gargoyle, Willem is dreadfully lonely and longing for human
companionship. Promising the beautiful Leesa riches, he begs her to
stay with him for a time. With so many to provide for, she can't
refuse and soon learns that looks can be deceiving. The steep price
to be paid to break the spell that cursed him into existence as a
gargoyle may be more than Leesa is willing or able to pay.<br />
<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">But
her choice offers no second chances: Either she gains back what she's
been mourning or she loses everything she's ever wanted…forever.</div></span><p></p>
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</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/2-beauty-and-the-faun-uoap-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/2-beauty-and-the-faun-uoap-ebook_orig.png" width="323" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Beauty
and the Faun </b></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Once
Upon a Princess Book 2</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/onceuponaprincess-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="575" height="53" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/onceuponaprincess-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In this short and sexy "fairy
tale" paranormal romance novella, a princess finds that love
with a shifter hero is not without complications – but there is
always a happily-ever-after.<br />
<br />
One complete novella. No
cliffhangers. Mature readers only.<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Kayla, a poor young
woman runs away when her rich uncle and aunt arrange her marriage to
a shifter prince from another land. Her uncle needs gold to settle
his debts and the king is offering a great reward if he can obtain a
willing bride for his son.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But Kayla's plans to hide in
the Great Forest hit a snag when two mischievous fauns find her and
deliver her to a very sexy faun shifter who is ready to teach Kayla a
thing or two about life and love.</span></div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Land of Dreams </b></span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Once
Upon a Princess Book 3</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/onceuponaprincess-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="575" height="53" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/onceuponaprincess-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif">Formula for Fairy Tale Love: 1
adventurous Heroine + 1 tortured-but-noble Hero =
Happily-Ever-After.<br />
<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the rich and fertile land called
Montrose, humans and creatures of magic exist together in a complex
web of harmony…and deceit.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
Willem was created of magic
and trapped in the Land of Dreams by a curse in which he shared his
gargoyle form with Eduardo. When Eduardo freed himself from the evil
spell his jealous half-brother Erokan cast on him, Willem survived
and was given a new life by the faeries. Haunted by the duality of
his previous existence as well as the woman he and Eduardo both fell
in love with while hexed, Willem, now a gargoyle shifter, meets the
daughter of Lord Montrose. Compassionate, graceful and adamant about
marrying for love and not riches, Cicely is far more wondrous than
her outside beauty suggests. Suddenly, everything he's ever wanted is
within his grasp. But he isn't the only man who longs to capture
her.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Aware that Cicely descends from the royal line and
was hidden away as a child to keep her magical ability a secret, a
mysterious stranger intends to bend the powerful fire elemental to
his will. To succeed, he has only to dominate Willem, still anguished
by the curse that trapped him…and easily beguiled by a fair
princess.</span><br />
<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cicely knows she possesses magical ability, but
her origins are a mystery even to her. She loves her family and her
land. Falling in love with the courageous, self-sacrificing Willem
may be the key to awakening…or unleashing…something formidable
buried deep inside her.</span></div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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text-align: center;"><b>The Jan Christopher Cosy Mysteries</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">set in the 1970s</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The SEA WITCH VOYAGES</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">nautical adventures set during the Golden Age of Piracy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="1200" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDQWgAh15Of49C54E14mWc0z9eTM6Krsxvu4UKsHHva8zlJSKHj_KT4UzTeIe-o-vlb0O1HA_t-SUOF-4x0krAdeqYVLXyQYWMTosekcMyV2azDm5Rjm0uifCLXWY3B5V1y02GVAQAywTbwuNEo7q9ZWHFnrcOcLrNBX2k24d6k80ridENkJWhUQc/w400-h310/2022-SeaWitchVoyages-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you enjoyed the first <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i> movie</td></tr></tbody></table>you'll<i> love </i>the <i>Sea Witch Voyages</i><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDQWgAh15Of49C54E14mWc0z9eTM6Krsxvu4UKsHHva8zlJSKHj_KT4UzTeIe-o-vlb0O1HA_t-SUOF-4x0krAdeqYVLXyQYWMTosekcMyV2azDm5Rjm0uifCLXWY3B5V1y02GVAQAywTbwuNEo7q9ZWHFnrcOcLrNBX2k24d6k80ridENkJWhUQc/s1200/2022-SeaWitchVoyages-2.jpg"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2TXsN3BdeZTNleJ0_j9u8TIRemONWlSvMKDLRQEMXgNbGetKbvLV4bgv-ucMpcBE9zxVuuAK2Q3UomBuvA9gJgpEQKbe2rHi4e4IPSXOW1sWsdpUcPNwnBhWkw_fsd4WUCcIfRBUBfOJOaGsGIVOCnmU5yl4mi2oDpKe8Crx9tadDoj2Eyv6G9CahG4/s800/Mermaid-Cover-WEB-BRONZE.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: justify;"><b>What if the founding fathers of the United States worked with France to smuggle a real historic treasure to North America?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A few years ago, while researching for the TV show <i>The Curse of Oak Island</i>, we ran into the long forgotten memorial for a little known English Prime Minister in an overgrown garden on the outskirts of London. We were astounded to find that it contained several clues with regards to the Jewish Menorah. It is one of the world’s most sacred artefacts, a man-size lampstand with seven arms, made from a single block of gold by Moses from God’s own specifications. The Menorah is an iconic symbol for the Jewish people. King Solomon placed it in the inner sanctum of the Temple of Jerusalem, but by the 5th century AD, all trace of it had disappeared from the official record, and it was assumed lost. We weren’t looking for this. But here it was. The discovery marked the beginning of a real-life Da Vinci Code that led us across 3 continents, chasing over 1,000 years of forgotten and secret history. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Our book is about to shine a new, 7-fold light on the foundation of the United States of America. The world’s most sacred treasure was re-discovered in the Middle Ages by the order of warrior-monks, the Knights Templar. The Menorah was smuggled to France with the help of the Royal House of France to eventually end up in North America after intervention of the founding fathers during the French Revolution.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We discovered that the Menorah was dug up from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in the time of the Crusades by the Medieval order of warrior monks, the Knights Templar, and smuggled to France with the help of the French King Louis IX. From there it was taken to Portugal, to end up in North America after interventions by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. The secret was hidden in plain sight in both France and North America, on a scale so big that it took 800 years for it to be discovered.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> * * * </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A shred of
secret history lies hidden in one of Paris’ most fashionable areas. Tucked away
between the high fashion stores of Hermes, Valentino and Saint-Laurent lies the
rather dull façade of one of the city’s largest churches. Most luxury shoppers
and tourists pass it without giving it any thought. However, the church of
Saint Roch in the Rue Saint-Honoré, is well worthy of attention. The building
has a long, colorful history as well as tight bonds with the Royal House of
France and their Republican and Imperial successors after the French Revolution.
The 15 year old Sun King Louis XIV of France laid the first stone in 1653. The
26 year old Napoleon Bonaparte fought French royalist troops on its steps, a
century-and-a-half later. The bullet holes from the event can still be touched
today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The church
of Saint Roch in Paris, on the Rue Saint-Honoré, lies close to the Palais Royal
and what used to be the Palace of the Tuileries, now destroyed. Both palaces
were prominent residences for French royals, their families and courtiers. The
church was a special place for the Royal House of France and they frequently
visited it. Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI would watch religious ceremonies here with
their queens from two invisible lodges, hidden high up to the left and right of
the altar, accessible only using a secret staircase in the walls. The
churchgoers wouldn’t have known their king and queen were attending. The
caretakers of the church whisper of a secret tunnel that led into the crypt
under the church from the Palais Royal, providing unseen access for the royal
audience who would come all the way from Versailles to attend mass here. Queen
Marie-Antoinette’s silver crucifix is still waiting for her in the church’s
sacristie. She wasn’t allowed to collect it on her way to the guillotine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Once you
enter the doors of Saint Roch, a vast space opens up, beautifully decorated
with paintings, statues and stained glass. To be buried here was a rare honor,
extended to only few. Marie Anne de Bourbon, the love and beloved child of the
young King Louis XIV and his first mistress Louise de La Vallière was laid to
rest here. So was the playwright Pierre Corneille and the philosopher Diderot.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Perhaps most
notably, this church is the last resting place of France’s most famous gardener
André LeNôtre. Already a legend in his own time, LeNôtre defined the French
garden. His designs were all about harmony and creating lines of sight that
would emphasize the best features of the landscape, elongating views and
broadening horizons. His greatest legacy are the gardens of the Palace of
Versailles, in which he redefined vastness and applied his skill on a scale
never seen before and rarely since. In the 39 years of their cooperation, this
modest, methodical gardener became a friend and trusted adviser to the highly
ambitious builder King Louis XIV, 25 years his junior. With the Sun King on his
side, LeNôtre deployed thousands of workers, forever changing lakes into
forests and forests into lakes, realizing the grand vision of his young master
to translate the glory of France into the biggest royal domain on the planet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Château
of Versailles and its gardens span 2,200 acres around a 3 mile long central
axis at the heart of the estate. Yet, it seems Louis XIV’s plan was greater
still. In the first years of his adult reign, he gathered a team around him of
Europe’s best scientists. Astronomers, mathematicians, engineers and
cartographers combined their knowledge and skills to help lay out the gardens
of his domain. When it was finished in 1685, the ground plan had the shape of a
giant 7-armed menorah, formed like the sacred lampstand fashioned by Moses
according to the Bible. Made from one solid block of gold, the man-size Jewish menorah,
a candelabra with seven oil lamps, was placed in the First Temple of Jerusalem
by the legendary King Solomon around 957 BC. On a clear day, if one flies over
Versailles, the shape of the giant menorah is still clearly visible on the
landscape from the sky. Once you have seen it, you can never unsee it again. Three
avenues form its perfect 60 degree tripod, leading up to the front gate of the
domain, branching out into 7 paths further down the central axis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But was this
really the Sun King’s intended shape for his garden? There might be a clue in
the angle and direction of the Château’s central axis. This 4 kilometer long
lane, or should we say, 4 kilometer tall central stem of the menorah, points to
Jerusalem. If one would leave the Château’s main gate and kept walking in a
straight line, one would walk straight to Temple Mount, where King Solomon
originally installed the menorah in the First Temple. It is an alignment with
eerie precision. Is it a coincidence that the world’s biggest menorah points at
the original menorah’s original location in Jerusalem? There are no known
records in the archives that support this theory, but it appears a further
secret clue is hidden in the church of Saint Roch in Paris.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Enter any
church and all the statues will face you. Not so in Saint Roch. André LeNôtre,
the Sun King’s gardener died in 1700 and was buried inside the church. Most of
his tomb was destroyed during the French Revolution and only his bust remains.
It was created by renowned sculptor Antoine Coysevox, with the instruction to
turn LeNôtre’s head slightly to the right. As a result, André LeNôtre’s eyes
face away from the viewer and are fixed on a spot in the back of the church.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> The king’s gardener, the man who spent his life creating ideal lines of sight
and who we think is responsible for hiding a giant menorah in plain sight at
Versailles, is forever staring at a life-size replica of Moses’ and Solomon’s biblical
menorah.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">© Corjan Mol
& Christopher Morford<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VFGfs9_OQjmy5Uo1hjJbulKF63am4xWG4873gObgstR5UkvUgthN5H699aB5773ViMZ3eklJXzQuGIPzLhzCSTt62otuZHzt9-t_q4ombH7l1JT-NeIMfA0rTww6iNT1voVvE8bmp7c6u-jEctTbxA8rpf8o8Th0tttpL1WcdjtiKqx8ej5dqsKwp3o/s4032/TJF%20002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VFGfs9_OQjmy5Uo1hjJbulKF63am4xWG4873gObgstR5UkvUgthN5H699aB5773ViMZ3eklJXzQuGIPzLhzCSTt62otuZHzt9-t_q4ombH7l1JT-NeIMfA0rTww6iNT1voVvE8bmp7c6u-jEctTbxA8rpf8o8Th0tttpL1WcdjtiKqx8ej5dqsKwp3o/w400-h300/TJF%20002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CORJAN MOL is a Dutch entrepreneur and historical researcher, who has featured in several TV documentaries, including BBC’s <i>Forbidden History</i> series. He is a recurring cast member and researcher of the #1 rated American cable reality TV show <i>The Curse of Oak Island</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CHRISTOPHER MORFORD is a 32nd degree Freemason, Gnostic Bishop, and occult historian and restaurateur from South Carolina, who is a featured theorist and consulting researcher on <i>The Curse of Oak Island</i> reality TV show.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">website: <a href="https://thejerusalemfiles.com" target="_blank">https://thejerusalemfiles.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">buy the book: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.thejerusalemfiles.com/#preorder" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><b>https://www.thejerusalemfiles.com/#preorder</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>< <a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-coffee-pot-book-club-guest-charles.html" target="_blank">PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Book Title: Covered in Flour</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Author: Charles Presti</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Publication Date: October 10th, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Publisher: Charles Presti</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Page Length: 220</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Genre: Historical Fiction</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's 1968 in Whisper Haven, and 8-year-old Carl Pozzi’s world is about to change. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For eight-year-old Carl Pozzi, 1968 begins like any other year—playing kickball with friends and enjoying the comforting aroma of Mom's pasta dinners in their predominantly white suburban Whisper Haven home. But when Carl's teacher introduces lessons about racial prejudice and injustice, his worldview cracks wide open.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How far can innocence stretch before it snaps?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As Carl flips through the pages of his 3-ring binder, each lesson serves as a gateway to a journey of self-discovery and understanding. It's an expedition that not only changes him but reshapes his whole concept of family and justice—especially as he watches his father put on a police uniform during one of the most fraught periods in American history.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Covered in Flour" is not just a heartfelt stroll down memory lane. It's a captivating coming-of-age saga that digs deep beneath the surface of suburban tranquility. It beckons you to reconsider long-held family values and confront the societal norms you've taken for granted. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Written with genuine love, humor, and a tinge of sorrow, this story blends the nostalgia of tradition with the inevitability of change, offering a stirring mix that leaves you pondering long after the last page is turned. This book isn't just a delightful read; it's a catalyst for introspection, freshly baked and served for your soul.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEind_Qfh-UFfPq6Ar4CTSuFVf0E5z5BXgMIhnJeKkdgy3xoMcSorkn7EORQXZ9xG9BVGU2eg9auOxj1gZxTa9pFPZoEr2QiCbB4fd47M-gi0k964gylRcsh-bNhzy0Ap61CIsapIcTvNA4sFuabeIQ8RIopzpHfLQyqxNMEV6tG6ldNgzFOWZAloIinASM/s640/Covered%20in%20Flour%20Tour%20Banner%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEind_Qfh-UFfPq6Ar4CTSuFVf0E5z5BXgMIhnJeKkdgy3xoMcSorkn7EORQXZ9xG9BVGU2eg9auOxj1gZxTa9pFPZoEr2QiCbB4fd47M-gi0k964gylRcsh-bNhzy0Ap61CIsapIcTvNA4sFuabeIQ8RIopzpHfLQyqxNMEV6tG6ldNgzFOWZAloIinASM/w400-h225/Covered%20in%20Flour%20Tour%20Banner%201.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Buy Link:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Universal Buy Link: <a href="https://books2read.com/u/3LdWED">https://books2read.com/u/3LdWED</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRykiPFeuqMqXONX2VLTcdGQ8_9Vpcifo7cMKf1-lCF5PsUqisfK0LNaIlrySGK_0bXdegponDEv_tp95hc0eglEnpPkjIGd8_rccZMGrqc6vMEOKSc8MgbQ_0Yj0hM2ib0Vmbczalfi-Ydbr7w4aeWFASo-U_8CsQd3plumFlBCATiB80YU9BI6JyIZs/s640/Charles%20Presti.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRykiPFeuqMqXONX2VLTcdGQ8_9Vpcifo7cMKf1-lCF5PsUqisfK0LNaIlrySGK_0bXdegponDEv_tp95hc0eglEnpPkjIGd8_rccZMGrqc6vMEOKSc8MgbQ_0Yj0hM2ib0Vmbczalfi-Ydbr7w4aeWFASo-U_8CsQd3plumFlBCATiB80YU9BI6JyIZs/w300-h400/Charles%20Presti.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>About the Author</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charles Presti, emerging from the sun-drenched shores of Pensacola, Florida, crafts narratives that echo with the richness of his varied life. His journey from a USF College of Medicine graduate to a storyteller is as unconventional as it is inspiring. Drawing from his days as a physician and informatics specialist, Charles infuses his writing with a rare blend of scientific precision and heartfelt emotion. His debut novel, "Covered in Flour," is a vivid tapestry of his Italian-American heritage, his experiences in the whirlwind era of the 1960s, and his personal journey as a gay man. These elements converge to create stories that not only entertain but resonate deeply with themes of family, discovery, and the delicate dance of life's everyday moments.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charles's passion for storytelling is paralleled only by his commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion. Alongside his husband, Mike Bruce, and their beloved Wheaton Terrier, Zoey, he is a vibrant force and founder of "Sunday's Child," a local charity dedicated to nurturing inclusion and empowering LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities through grants to local charities. A pillar in the Emerald Coast Writers group, he continually explores the nuances of identity, heritage, and a sense of belonging. Discover more about Charles's captivating world and "Covered in Flour" at <a href="http://www.coveredinflour.com">www.coveredinflour.com</a>, where each story is a window into a life lived fully and authentically.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Website: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.coveredinflour.com">www.coveredinflour.com</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Facebook:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552112886658">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552112886658</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">LinkedIn: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckpresti/ </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Instagram: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/covered_inflour/">https://www.instagram.com/covered_inflour/</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book Bub: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/books/covered-in-flour-1968-a-young-boy-s-perspective-on-school-family-and-changing-times-by-charles-presti">https://www.bookbub.com/books/covered-in-flour-1968-a-young-boy-s-perspective-on-school-family-and-changing-times-by-charles-presti</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amazon Author Page:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/charlespresti">https://www.amazon.com/author/charlespresti</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodreads:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45201473.Charles_Presti">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45201473.Charles_Presti</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSi9iz6Y6xyINT7cSFnIw1bfxF_tdKBVyKNyf6LgvMPlSmnydgSr1QdqaveaLtEo5RtM4rPd3EsQbryZJkknE7nXolEjW7aAO1RVqSF63zkr4nmN5O3kIAeTCktpVEVDcx4CY5zoonz6l4WOwq1Gu36LdYgf85SsH1S7lGK7rq4Rwqa_Nesl4Z5n9PoEs/s480/IG%20banner%20Covered%20in%20Flour.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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</b><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b>MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1969</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The shrill ring of the telephone from the
kitchen desk cut through the silence like a blade, pulling us back to the
present moment. No one moved initially; we all exchanged glances before my
father's eyes met mine, a wordless cue for me to answer the call.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
"Hello?" I said, my voice barely above a whisper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
"Hi, this is Miss Veezi. May I speak with your father, please?" The
words sent a shiver down my spine. I paused, then turned toward the table.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
"Dad, Miss Veezi is on the phone. She wants to talk to you."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">
Dad put his fork down, dabbed his lips with a paper towel, and stomped toward
the phone. He picked up the receiver and listened. The expressionless mask that
had been on his face shifted into a scowl, his eyes narrowing as he listened.</span></p></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRh2I7ugHdNmA4aZSUeFisHJPsyfrKW2Cgdmn5-yWBvUzZW-i6M5vgzQiJj1s8xk8jhqhhfYM0oi9sXquWn58hIgwG7T2n1DBQ0j9d5PKmfvlMDg2arika-H2VfpRcB6br10z32pdPCi9NUm2mmgu3cfY0OiIGgsyPIz4Dk1pIUU4MOGT5u6mBPGv5wCE/s640/Covered%20In%20Flour%20Tour%20Schedule%20Banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRh2I7ugHdNmA4aZSUeFisHJPsyfrKW2Cgdmn5-yWBvUzZW-i6M5vgzQiJj1s8xk8jhqhhfYM0oi9sXquWn58hIgwG7T2n1DBQ0j9d5PKmfvlMDg2arika-H2VfpRcB6br10z32pdPCi9NUm2mmgu3cfY0OiIGgsyPIz4Dk1pIUU4MOGT5u6mBPGv5wCE/w400-h225/Covered%20In%20Flour%20Tour%20Schedule%20Banner.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Follow the tour:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter Handle: @cathiedunn</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Instagram Handle: @covered_inflour @thecoffeepotbookclub</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hashtags: #HistoricalFiction #coveredinflourjourney #comingofage #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tour Schedule Page: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/blog-tour-covered-in-flour-by-charles-presti.html">https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/01/blog-tour-covered-in-flour-by-charles-presti.html</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><<a href="https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-coffee-pot-book-club-guest-jerry.html" target="_blank"> PREVIOUS POST</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Book Title: </span>Steel Valley:
Coming of Age in the Ohio Valley in the 1960s<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Author: </span>Jerry Madden<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Publication Date: </span>January 20,
2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;">Publisher: </span>Potomac Publishing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Page
Length: </span><span lang="FR">350 pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Genre: </span><span lang="FR">Historical Fiction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB21KSTu9PaQE7qpushcwG2dMcwP9frao5SAlOumPTaFa410mK0GcZQo_OJgoTiqTQBfVSIk9uqI5_PTIIdgbgT7_hAKvpU3Oz4EjOh-kXqngnBArfz3c8Zu_30ZonDI0EphMf6yyjssar2U-qOFY1-taBM6VAqLMlNG-ted1Um3eVE91T2cE-7drAYFQ/s480/IG%20banner%202%20Steel%20Valley.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB21KSTu9PaQE7qpushcwG2dMcwP9frao5SAlOumPTaFa410mK0GcZQo_OJgoTiqTQBfVSIk9uqI5_PTIIdgbgT7_hAKvpU3Oz4EjOh-kXqngnBArfz3c8Zu_30ZonDI0EphMf6yyjssar2U-qOFY1-taBM6VAqLMlNG-ted1Um3eVE91T2cE-7drAYFQ/w400-h400/IG%20banner%202%20Steel%20Valley.png" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>For readers of The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni and Last Summer Boys by Bill Rivers</i></p><p class="MsoNormal">Love is never easy...even in easier times, like the 1950s and 1960s in the Ohio Valley with the steel industry booming.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Second-generation immigrant families were reaching for the American middle class. And Catholic schools-made feasible by selfless Catholic nuns-promised bigger lives for everyone, including Jack Clark and Laurie Carmine. As they spent years searching for their separate futures, though, they were also stumbling toward love just as their world came crashing down.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Steel Valley depicts a story of love longed for, lost, and perhaps still within reach, just as our nation's mythic yesterday became our troubled today, our last summer of innocence.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Buy Link:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Universal Buy Link: </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://books2read.com/u/3nGw5K">https://books2read.com/u/3nGw5K</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cYIih_2aq-ANKHCpkthLC3UNB_X_ZMBiXFfP8-YixfjP7V_SdpoG_PGos4WQFdSjb8QfCFpQra9TeXaU8CaStvDfjOllbm_I7ITNXiXNPoQhl2WCBu27STwhO6_85qzrb5hMHzUx68tvHXpXXAAUsL1b_4VqYmwbeFoB6_WTmUGg7xZVd-Rm22WdruI/s256/Jerry%20Madden%20author.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="256" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2cYIih_2aq-ANKHCpkthLC3UNB_X_ZMBiXFfP8-YixfjP7V_SdpoG_PGos4WQFdSjb8QfCFpQra9TeXaU8CaStvDfjOllbm_I7ITNXiXNPoQhl2WCBu27STwhO6_85qzrb5hMHzUx68tvHXpXXAAUsL1b_4VqYmwbeFoB6_WTmUGg7xZVd-Rm22WdruI/w400-h400/Jerry%20Madden%20author.png" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>About the author</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jerry Madden grew up in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1960s. He holds a B.A. from the College of Steubenville and law degrees from the University of Dayton School of Law and the Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, Jerry served as the sole law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, C. William O'Neill. He served in the United States Marine Corps (R) between 1970 and 1976.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Jerry has practiced law in Washington, D.C., since 1979, including fourteen years at the Department of Justice as a trial and appellate attorney. He is the principal of The Madden Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C.</p><p class="MsoNormal">He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Cyndi, a retired educator. They have two children, Kelsey and Jack, both of whom hold M.Ed. degrees. They have one grandchild, Jamie Maclennan</p><p class="MsoNormal">Author Links</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Website: <a href="https://steelvalleymadden.com/">https://steelvalleymadden.com/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
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text-align: right;"><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/green-corrosion-banner_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="800" height="149" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/green-corrosion-banner_orig.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> Earth is plagued by the Black Rain turning water into a gel and
destroying the whole ecology. Geo Woodman is on a mission to
protect his clan and to save the people of Torono from the upcoming
ecological disaster. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/green-corrosion-ebook_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="484" height="400" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/green-corrosion-ebook_orig.png" width="323" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Green Corrosion </b>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The Corrosion Series
Book 1
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">by Costi Gurgu
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Genre:
Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian Science Fiction</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/gerencorrosion-about-the-book_orig.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="556" height="99" src="https://www.silverdaggertours.com/uploads/8/2/5/5/82557464/gerencorrosion-about-the-book_orig.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
devastating Black Rain has transformed the once-lush land into an
arid wasteland, turning all water into a gel-like substance across
the globe. Fresh, drinkable water has become the planet's most
precious commodity, sought after by all. Some have chanced upon
underground liquid reserves, while those with no choice but to drink
gelled water become "Corrosives," disfigured by a
verdigrislike substance covering their bodies.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Golden Tower of Prince
Boris shines above the otherwise derelict city of Torono.</span></p>
<p style="border: none; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From the Golden Tower, Geo
Woodman secretly leads the fight to save his clan and the people of
Torono from the dangers of corrupt leaders and the hazardous climate.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="it-IT">Costi</span>’<span lang="en-US">s
fiction has appeared in Canada, the US, and Europe. He has sold 5
books and over 50 stories for which he has won 24 awards. He was
three times a finalist for the Canadian </span>Aurora Awards. </span></span></span>
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<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-US">His
latest sales include the anthologies </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Tesseracts
17</i></span>, <span lang="de-DE"><i>The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk</i></span>,
<i>Dark Horizons</i>, <span lang="en-US"><i>Street Magick, Water, </i></span><span lang="en-US">and
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Alice Unbound</i></span>.</span></span></span></p>
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<span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-US">His
bestselling novel </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span lang="it-IT"><i>RecipeArium</i></span></span><span lang="en-US">
has won three awards (Kult, Nemira, and Vladimir Colin) and was a
2018 finalist for the Aurora Awards.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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second novel, “Servitude” was published in October 2022. And his
latest novel “Green Corrosion” is book 1 of the “Corrosion”
series, and was published in September 2023.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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A upside-down, frothy swamp hanging so oppressively low, some of the decaying towers pricked its purulent belly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Geo always felt sick after looking at the sky, but he inevitably looked every time he observed the Golden Tower, or the Silkers Tower, as people called it. The only high-rise structure in the city still in use. All the other high-rises had been abandoned long ago, after entire floors collapsed with the tenants inside. They rose, derelict, their windows clotted, in a ghostly jungle. The Silkers Tower, though…it supposedly had been consolidated and adapted to the new conditions. The golden structure gleamed like the only source of light in a city of eternal mist and green reflections.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Geo breathed deeply a few times to calm himself. The unwholesome effluvia of corroding bodies coiled through the air. He shut his eyes and ignored the fetid damp creeping through the rebreather. Then he looked around and felt a pleasant thrill, an ever-present fear, and lust, all at once in a bubbling, poisonous mixture. Lately, that had been the marinade his brain floated in. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He was part of the Silkers procession that had traversed the city from its port to their Golden Tower. Ninety Silkers soldiers had disembarked and took to the streets of the city to be next to their brothers in the most celebrated event of the year—the Water Passage.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The people of the city filled the streets, eager to glimpse the glorious army. And Geo was at its head, in the lead. Next to Prince Boris and his court, surrounded by Boris’s elite guard of Luna Warriors, atop the royal wheeled platform of rust-red water-silk.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He was thrilled to be in such dangerous company. He lusted for the kind of attention this display of power attracted. And the fear was ever-present, fear of the Silkers’ reality and their way of life, their values and ever-shifting interests. Fear that today he was at the center of their attention and tomorrow he might wake up discarded. Fear of what being part of the Silker Court implied and what not being part of it meant for Geo’s clan.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The mayor and his Blue Officers watched the passing procession from the central balcony of the City Hall. It was supposed to show the people that the procession was for him, for the ruler of the city. But Geo knew that in reality it meant that the mayor was not invited to be part of the procession and was not invited to watch the Water Passage Ritual, as he, Geo, was. Geo, the prince’s special guest. Last year Nimesh of the Bones Clan, who had mysteriously vanished; this year, Geo. Prince Boris’s special guests and friends. The Silkers’ ever-shifting political interests.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The City Hall was a two-storey building lined with waves and waves of mortar to keep it from collapsing under the continuous attack of the water. It looked like a thick, monstrous candle, the wax melted in ripples from years of burning. Its balcony was the only thing moved forward so it remained on the outside, overlooking the Mayor’s Square and the Golden Tower. Prince Boris said that they had decided to rehabilitate the Golden Tower as a sign of respect for the City Hall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But Woodman the Elder, Geo’s grandfather and the leader of his people, had a different opinion on the matter—that Prince Boris wanted to rub the mayor’s face in the fact that they had the knowledge to actually convert an old structure to survive the vicissitudes of their times. And that the Golden Tower of the Silkers looked a thousand times more royal than the City Hall. And that all the people could see it, because the two buildings faced each other.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The procession stopped in front of the Golden Tower. The mayor waved formally and the prince nodded elegantly. The crowd gathered in the Mayor’s Square burst into cheers. The three detachments of the prince’s three armies took their places around the royal platform and waited. The Luna Warriors secured the tower’s entrance and took up position as a guard of honor. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Geo shuddered. He was about to enter the infamous tower for the first time. He was about to pull his clan into history. They were about to go public. Official. Known of. 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