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M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction - Finalists!

Always a bridesmaid, but never a bride! Oh well!

Congrats to the Finalists for M.M. Bennetts Award for #HistoricalFiction!

Finalists are Helena P Schrader, Stuart Blackburn & Kermit Roosevelt!

Go forth and read them!! Read them NOW!

Shakespeare 400 Celebration Sale!

Amazon.com - http://amzn.to/1VZ6NqX
Amazon UK - http://amzn.to/1T6QxC0

Sorry Canada! My apologies!  The Amazon system isn't set up to allow me to provide Amazon.ca discounts.

"...that is the question"

It's #ShakespeareWeek on #Goodreads from April 18 - 22!

As "The Jesuit Letter" features an eleven-year old Will Shakespeare as a key character, feel free to drop in any questions on my Goodreads author page (or here for that matter!) you might have about the Bard, and how I've woven him into my fictional creation.

Still Pretty Good‬....

Well, THE JESUIT LETTER unfortunately didn't advance to the "final four" in the 2016 HNS Indie Award, but still did pretty damn good for a debut novel, making it to the Short-list!

That puts it in the top nine books out of the 300-odd indie books the Historical Novel Society reviewed in the last year...so YAY!

#StillPrettyGood...

Here are the Final Four!

Shakespeare at the Movies: Macbeth

Macbeth (2015)

Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan


I am in blood, stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."

Macbeth is a dark ride.

Always one of Shakespeare's most powerful plays, Macbeth provides a heady mix of power, witchcraft, madness and malevolence. Written by Shakespeare in 1605, in the wake of the failed Gunpowder Plot to assassinate the newly crowned King James I (along with Parliament), Macbeth tre...

M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction - SemiFinalist!

Terrific news!

THE JESUIT LETTER is a semifinalist selection for M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction!



The list of Semifinalists 2016 in order of submission:

Helena P. Schrader – Defender of Jerusalem
Carol Anne Dobson – Hecate’s Moon
Lucienne Boyce: Bloodie Bones
Stuart Blackburn: Into the Hidden Valley
Karen Charlton: The San Pareil Mystery
Gemma Lawrence: The Heretic Heir
Dean Hamilton: The Jesuit Letter
Kermit Roosevelt: Allegiance
Nuala O’Connor: Miss Emily
Tobias: Prue Batten


The finalists wil...

Testing. Testing. Later there will be a quiz...

Just testing a new promotional .gif idea. These all are variously optimized to reduce the file size etc.

Any feedback? Thoughts? Overwhelming urge to order my book?

Floridays

Just back from a visit to Sarasota, Florida and thought I would share some photos....

Shakespeare at the Movies: Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo

Romeo and Juliet is probably the Shakespearean play most familiar to modern audiences due to the fact that so many schools are determined to ram the angsty, star-crossed teen lovers down high-schoolers throats, mainly I suspect, as an object lesson on how NOT to get stupidly infatuated and ruin your lives…

It has been re-made countless times (most recently in 2013) but certain film versions stand-o...

And gentlemen in England now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here...

In the U.K.?

Now's your chance to nab THE JESUIT LETTER from Amazon.Co.UK for a mere 0.99!

On sale Feb. 1 - 4, 2016, as a Kindle Countdown Deal.

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Go! Now! Grab one!


And thanks! Be sure to tell your friends!