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Glen Craney
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A native Hoosier, GLEN CRANEY is a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and lawyer. He caught the history bug as a boy while tracing the steps of his ancestors on Civil War battlefields and the reconstructed forts of the first Kentucky pioneers.
His travels around the world have found him playing baseball in Cuba, walking the biblical sites of Israel, exploring the Secret Vatican Archives in Rome, and climbing Templar castles in Scotland and France. His books have taken readers to Occitania during the Albigensian Crusade, to the Scotland of Robert the Bruce, to Portugal during the Age of Discovery, to the trenches of France during World War I, and to the American Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.
He graduated from Hanover College with a ma ...more
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Historical Fiction Reader "Highly Recommends" The Fire and the Light.
The Historical Fiction Reader--named one of the top review blogs for historical fiction--praises
The Fire and the Light
as "a breathtaking story of an oft-overlooked event."
Read the review here.
The historical novel, set during the 13th-century Albigensian Crusade, tells the story of a heretic viscountess, Esclarmonde de Foix, who would become known as the Cathar Joan of Arc for defying the mos Read more of this blog post »
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The historical novel, set during the 13th-century Albigensian Crusade, tells the story of a heretic viscountess, Esclarmonde de Foix, who would become known as the Cathar Joan of Arc for defying the mos Read more of this blog post »
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The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History:
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“The Cotillion Brigade” is a fantastic journey during the American Civil War, with a flair of empowerment for the woman who wanted to protect their homes and their town. Read full review in the 2021 June issue of InD'tale Magazine." Read more of this review » |
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The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History:
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Nannie is a spoilt young woman whose head is filled with dreams of marriage. Hugh is a farmer with an opinion. These two, unlike people, will be forced to c" Read more of this review » |
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The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History:
"I simply adore novels that depict strong women, even more so when the story is based on actual people. The Cotillion Brigade tells the story of a woman who broke all the rules of convention and propriety to ensure that her town would be in a position"
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