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#HistFicThursdays - Writing a Series

I started writing my first book when I was still at school. It wasn't historical fiction, it was high fantasy, and it was the first of ten books, under the collective title The Watcher's Heir . I knew from the word go that it was going to have this number of books, although I didn't really work out exactly what would happen in each one. Twenty-five years on and the books are still not finished, although I now only have a couple more to go! Every Christmas I settle down and manage to write a chapter or two more, and every New Year it is my resolution to finish them. I suspect this will go on for a few years more. In the passage of time since then, I've written more than a dozen books. I can't quite pinpoint what it is which keeps obstructing the conclusion of these books. It could be that I am not the same person I was 25 years ago (who is?!), and so the voice which began the books is almost unrecognisable. It could be that I have now passed the age almost all of my ...
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#HistFicThursdays - Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love - Constance Briones - Book Excerpt

    Today for #HistFicThursdays, I am delighted to be sharing a book excerpt from  Constance Briones ' brilliant new book! I'm once again teaming up with  The Coffee Pot Book Club  to share an excerpt from  Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love ! First of all, let's meet the book... What if Taylor Swift found herself penning songs about love in Elizabethan England when women were required to be chaste, obedient, and silent? Isabella Whitney, an ambitious and daring eighteen-year-old maidservant turned poet, sets out to do just that. Having risked reputation and virtue by allowing her passions for her employer's aristocratic nephew to get the better of her, Isabella Whitney enters the fray of the pamphlet wars, a scurrilous debate on the merits of women. She's determined to make her mark by becoming the first woman to write a poem defending women in love, highlighting the deceptive practices of the men who woo them. Her journe...
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#HistFicThursdays - Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip - Gail Ward Olmsted - Book Snippet

   This week for #HistFicThursdays, I'm delighted to once again be teaming up with  The Coffee Pot Book Club  for author  Gail Ward Olmsted 's blog tour! Today, I'm sharing an excerpt from her fabulous brand new release, Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip ! First of all, let's meet the book... In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island, to her home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends, that at the age of 77 she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone. Over the next six days, she receives a marriage proposal, pulls an all-nighter, saves a life or two, crashes a high-society event, meets a kindred spirit, faces a former rival, makes a new friend, takes a stroll with a future movie mogul, advises a troubled newlywed, and reflects upon a life well lived; her own!  Join her as she embarks upon her remarkable road trip. Katharine Prescott Wormeley (1830-190...
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#HistFicThursdays - The Founding (Across the Great Divide: Book III) - Michael Ross - Guest Post

It's #HistFicThursdays, and I'm so excited to be sharing a guest post from  Michael L. Ross ,   as part of his  Coffee Pot Book Club  tour. Find out all about Michael's building of the character of Mary King in the guest post below. But first, let's meet the book... Blurb Two men, two dreams, two new towns on the plains, and a railroad that will determine whether the towns—one black, one white—live or die.  Will Crump has survived the Civil War, Red Cloud’s War, and the loss of his love, but the search for peace and belonging still eludes him. From Colorado, famed Texas Ranger Charlie Goodnight lures Will to Texas, where he finds new love, but can a Civil War sharpshooter and a Quaker find a compromise to let their love survive? When Will has a chance to join in the founding of a new town, he risks everything—his savings, his family, and his life—but it will all be for nothing if the new railroad passes them by. Luther has escaped slavery in Kentucky throug...
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