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Interview with Author Steven A. McKay
I am delighted to have Steven A. McKay, author of bestselling novels Wolf’s Head and The Wolf and the Raven, visit with me today. Steven introduced me – and thousands of other readers I imagine – to Robin Hood in 14th century Yorkshire. Wait! What happened to the Sheriff of Nottingham? I’ll let Steven talk about his research and writing,…
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Is the world ready for another Robin Hood tale?
Authors Steven A. McKay and Angus Donald have huge successes with their recent novels exploring new tales of Robin Hood. McKay’s Forest Lord series features Robin in 14th century England. He’s a Yorkshire lad – not of noble birth – during the tumultuous reign of Edward II. Donald writes a 12th century Mafia-style Robin in his Outlaw Chronicles.…
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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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Visual inspiration and the writer
As someone who grew up with television, visuals have always been important to me. Can’t you get a sense of time, of place, from those period dramas? Translating that to paper – or to computer screen – is still the most difficult thing for me. As a writer of historical fiction, I have to be…
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a great review of Men of the Cross
A wonderful review of Men of the Cross posted on Tales of the Fiction House and copied here. (Thank you, Mark!) WAR’S TENDER MERCIES Posted on July 25, 2014by Mark Rogers, Editor (Taking a break from Mr. Raji Singh’s whimsical Lore of the Lindian Woods animal tales: They’ll return next week. A national news commentator’s sad remarks…
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Third Crusade History – Highlights of Junes 1190-1194
There were momentous events in the Junes of the Third Crusade. I want to highlight a few, and all of them are included in my novels Battle Scars I & II: Men of the Cross (Book I) takes place from March 1190 – March 1193; book II, For King and Country, reflects the Lionheart’s imprisonment in…
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writing process blog hop…
Robert Mullin, author of the speculative fiction/fantasy Bid the Gods Arise, invited me to participate in this blog hop several weeks ago. I got a bit side-tracked publishing my current novel, so forgive my coming late to this party. Participants in this blog hop are asked to answer four questions about our writing process. So here goes……
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3, 2, 1…lift-off!
I am thrilled to share this news with you! Now available in print & online via Amazon & Amazon (UK)& other Amazon sites worldwide, and on Nook.