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The balance between imagination and research: guest post by Anna Belfrage
I have had the pleasure of being whisked away to the past by Anna Belfrage, a writer and friend I only met seven years ago, but whom I feel like I’ve known forever. We share a love of medieval…
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Talking about the book: His Castilian Hawk by Anna Belfrage
Title: His Castilian HawkAuthor: Anna Belfrage A bit about the author Anna Belfrage wanted to become a time-traveller but ended up as a financial professional with a passion for writing and history. She is the author of a 9 book time travel series, a 4 book historical fiction series in the medieval era, and has […]
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Talking about the book – The Cold Light of Dawn by Anna Belfrage
Title: The Cold Light of DawnAuthor: Anna Belfrage A bit about the authorAnna is Swedish, multilingual, married, mother of 4, cook & baker, works full-time, an award-winning and prolific writer who has published more than a dozen books. The storyThis is book 4 in The King’s Greatest Enemy series: “Adam de Guirande has cause to […]
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Talking about the book: Under the Approaching Dark by Anna Belfrage
Title: Under the Approaching DarkAuthor: Anna Belfrage A tidbit about the authorAs a child she wanted to be an Arctic explorer, a crusader or Richard Lionheart’s favourite page, and of course, a writer, and she couldn’t imagine a 9 to 5 job. “I was going to be a free spirit, an impoverished but happy writer, […]
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Talking about the book: Days of Sun & Glory by Anna Belfrage
Title: Days of Sun & GloryAuthor: Anna Belfrage A tidbit about the authorBorn in Sweden, raised in Peru & Colombia. Anna notes that where her classmates in Bogota “were constantly talking about the future (or football, at which I excelled) I was mostly dreaming about the past. I had no desire to become a business woman […]
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A Lost People, A Lost Voice – A Guest Post by Anna Belfrage
I am delighted to have Anna Belfrage on my blog today as part of the first indieBRAG Book Blitz. Anna’s eight time-slip novels in The Graham Saga are B.R.A.G. Medallion honorees. Book 6 in the series, Revenge & Retribution, was awarded the 2015 HNS Indie Award for the best indie-published historical fiction. I had the honor of […]
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Rocky Mountain highs amidst the Historical Novel Society Conference
What a way to begin my first HNS conference – a 3 hour broadsword workshop with writer/actor/swordsman David Blixt and his associate Brandon St. Clair Saunders. These two gentlemen were superb swordsmen and were incredibly patient with some of us who were a bit uncoordinated, i.e., me! Sparks flew. (Yeah, right.) We had a blast. […]