Historical Fiction and Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Book Reviews and ruminations on life
24
Nov
I am a self published author and – for the sake of transparency – I am one of the authors mentioned in this book. WAIT – don’t just assume I have given it a good rating because of this fact. I received a review copy and read the book in 3 days and did so […]
Tags: book review; book promotion
22
Nov
Two years ago I recorded The Amber Treasure and released it in episodes via Podiobooks.com. This is a US based site which will publish audio books. It also feeds them to Itunes again as podcast episodes. Over a couple of years the book had 300+ downloads and some good feedback. As a first experiment in recording audiobooks it was not a bad […]
Tags: audio books
14
Nov
I’ve been tagged in The Next Big Thing by fellow writer Helen Hollick Website: www.helenhollick.net and main Blog: http://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/ who writes historical fiction and pirate-based adventure. Helen reached the USA Today Bestseller list with her novel The Forever Queen in 2011. I’m instructed by Helen to tell you all about my next book by answering […]
13
Nov
The Mission of St Augustine by Richard Denning Christianity had come to Britain in Roman times but following the Roman withdrawal in about 416 AD and the steady conquest of what would one day be England by the Anglo-Saxon immigrants it was confined mostly to the lands under the control of the Romano-British Welsh (increasingly confined to […]
4
Nov
A few items of news relevant to self publishing authors arrived in my inbox this last few days so I thought I should share them. Nook Opens in the UK Barnes and Noble have made a move into the UK e-books market by launching http://uk.nook.com only last week – a site where UK readers can buy e-books for […]
Tags: self publshing
2
Nov
When the Anglo-Saxons Came to Britain what clothing did the wear? Objects found in graves as well as illustrations in Anglo-Saxon scrolls and books, stone engravings and images on objects can all give us a clue. Male clothing included shirts made of wool or linen and some form of loin-cloths. On their legs they wore woolen trousers […]
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, clothing