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#HistFicThursdays - Inspirational Series: Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill: The Roaring Lion At the moment, clips from The Crown keep coming up on my Facebook page and then, once you’ve watched a few, they appear on YouTube too. Thanks, cookies!  I’ve never gone in for writing twentieth century fiction, although I’m not opposed to reading it. One of the most interesting things about historical fiction, of course, is the ability to put words into the mouths of people who really lived. Over the past couple of blogs, I’ve looked at Henry VIII and Alexander the Great, and how I have used their characteristics and moulded them into what I needed for my stories. How brave, then, of the writers of The Crown to put words into the mouths of people who were still speaking! There has been a lot of speculation about how members of the royal family would have reacted to various parts of programme. In fact, thanks to the aforementioned cookies, I now get spammed with clickbait articles like, “Watch the scene which made Prince Philip want to sue make...
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The Crowvus Book Blog is run by three people... here we are!
Left to right: Clemency, Judith and Virginia.

We run a small independent publishing company called Crowvus (check out our website here). Crowvus publishes a range of fiction and non fiction, and runs a ghost story competition every year. Submissions start in May and end in September for those of you who love to write a chilling tale!

But here's a little bit about us...

Virginia is a historical fiction author, and runs the #HistFicThursday blog posts. She has published several books but, when she isn't writing, she is busy teaching music, or going for walks with her camera.

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Judith is a gothic horror and young adult author, and is running series of blog posts on #HistFicThursdays, focussing on gothic horror. When she's not writing, Judith teaches English at the local High School, and making amazing crafts for the County Show.

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Clemency writes middle grade fantasy adventure. That's it. It's a very specific genre, yes, but it's also great fun! When she's not writing, she works at a local primary school and enjoys spending time in the garden with her quail, chickens and spaniels (not together, as one spaniel would dearly love to eat the chickens).

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If you would like any of us to review your book, then please take a look at our review policy.

Get in touch by emailing the_team@crowvus.com

Bye for now,
The Crowvus Team

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