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DiverseReader – #Review & #Giveaway for For King and Country
Meredith likes For King and Country!! Maybe you will too. To celebrate, I am doing a giveaway on DiverseReader for a chance to win an e-copy of this tale of war, passion, and forbidden love. You’ll also have a chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card. Get over there now and read Meredith’s review. Enter the […]
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A Discovered Diamond – Book Review of For King and Country
There is a new site in town – rather, on the web – for reviews of historical fiction: Discovering Diamonds. You should definitely bookmark or follow this site if you are looking for good historical fiction. And I am thrilled to report that For King and Country, Book II of Battle Scars, has been selected as […]
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Feeling war through a character’s eyes
Let me take you to Outremer with the knights of Richard the Lionheart… The term PTSD – post-traumatic stress syndrome – was given its name in the 1970s during the Vietnam conflict. Shakespeare has a scene in Henry IV, Part 2¹ (written in 1597) that describes it, though generations have ignored or glossed over it for […]
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and the elevator door closes…
Writer Matthew Harffy is ahead of me. On his blog, Bernicia Chronicles, he writes that he’s completed revisions on his Dark Ages novel and has sent it out out for another round of beta readers. His decision to do a ‘pitch’ at a conference inspired me to start thinking about how I might pitch Battle […]