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February 20, 2017
When Tides Turn Pre-Order – Drawing Winners!
Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered When Tides Turn and filled out the form! I hope you’re enjoying your downloadable goodies. The group video conference will be scheduled at the end of March, and everyone who filled out the form will receive an email with instructions when we have the final details.
All entries were placed in a drawing to name a character in the next novel I’ll write–The Sky Above Us, Book 2 in the Sunrise at Normandy series. The three winners will also receive a free copy of the book when it releases in early 2019. I will contact the winners to arrange for the character names. The three winners are…
Vicki Caruana
Joanna Hiemstra
Corinne Reynolds
However…I decided to throw in ONE extra winner. Ruth Lucca sent me not one, but TWENTY photos of her When Tides Turn origami ship, photographed at the former US Navy training vessel, USS Recruit, in San Diego! Here is a sampling of her photos. Aren’t they fun?
Today in World War II History—Feb. 20, 1942
Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare in front of a Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighter, spring 1942 (US Navy photo)
75 Years Ago—Feb. 20, 1942: First US Eighth Air Force officers arrive in England.
Japanese land on Portuguese East Timor and Dutch West Timor in East Indies.
Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare of USS Lexington shoots down five Japanese planes in six minutes in his F4F Wildcat over Rabaul, becoming the first US Navy ace of war, receives Medal of Honor.
February 19, 2017
Today in World War II History—Feb. 19, 1942
Exclusion Order posted at First and Front Streets in San Francisco directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry, 1 April 1942 (US National Archives)
75 Years Ago—Feb. 19, 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing designation of military zones and removal of certain persons, which will lead to the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Largest-ever attack on Australia: 242 Japanese aircraft bomb Darwin and Broome, sinking 12 ships, destroying almost all aircraft, and killing 200.
Canadian parliament passes conscription law.
Explosion of MV Neptuna, hit during the Japanese air raid on Darwin, Australia, 19 February 1942 (Royal Australian Navy photo)
February 18, 2017
Today in World War II History—Feb. 18, 1942
75 Years Ago—Feb. 18, 1942: Japanese land on Bali, cutting ferry link from Australia to Java.
In Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, destroyer USS Truxtun and US stores issuing ship Pollux ground in a storm and are lost; destroyer USS Wilkes grounds but frees herself; citizens of St. Lawrence take great risks and save many sailors.
February 17, 2017
Today in World War II History—Feb. 17, 1942
75 Years Ago—Feb. 17, 1942: First Seabees arrive in the Pacific, on Bora Bora in American Samoa to build an airfield.
In Singapore, Japanese send 3,000 British civilians to Changi prison and 50,000 British, Australian, and Indian POWs to Selarang Barracks.
February 16, 2017
Today in World War II History—Feb. 16, 1942
Staff Nurse Vivian Bullwinkel, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), 1941, the sole survivor of the Bangka Island massacre (Australian War Memorial)
75 Years Ago—Feb. 16, 1942: At Bangka Island, Japanese massacre 200 civilians & 22 Australian nurses fleeing Singapore.
German U-boats shell tankers and refineries in US-held Aruba and Curaçao, the first sinkings in the Caribbean.
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy approve a wartime three-year, year-round program.
February 15, 2017
Book Beat – The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
In 1719, midwife Julianne Chevalier is wrongfully convicted of murder, branded for her crime, and sentenced to life in Paris’s bleak prisons. When she is offered the choice of exile in the colony of Louisiana, she leaps at the opportunity, especially since her brother Benjamin serves as a soldier in New Orleans. However, her freedom comes with a price – forced marriage to a fellow convict. And conditions in the swampy encampment in New Orleans are harsh. When tragedy strikes, Julianne finds a champion in handsome officer Marc-Paul Girard, but the man has secrets of his own.
Sweeping and stirring, The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green tells of grace in the middle of dishonor and despair. The writing draws a fascinating and unsentimental picture of colonial life, but the characters are at the heart of the story. Complex, moving, and real, Julianne and Marc-Paul and the side characters draw you into their world. They struggle with secrets, disgrace, and grief, and come out stronger. A touching novel you won’t want to miss.
Today in World War II History—Feb. 15, 1942
British Army Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival and his party on their way to surrender Singapore to the Japanese, 15 Feb 1942 (Imperial War Museum)
75 Years Ago—Feb. 15, 1942: Fall of Singapore: British Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival surrenders to Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, 64,000 POWs taken.
“Enemy aliens” ordered to be removed from restricted military zones in California.
February 14, 2017
Today in World War II History—Feb. 14, 1942
Japanese paratroopers landing in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, 13 Feb 1942 (Japanese Navy photo)
75 Years Ago—Feb. 14, 1942: USSR begins universal labor conscription.
Japanese land on Sumatra at Palembang.
Japanese kill 323 physicians, nurses, and patients at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore.
Polish Armia Krajowa (Home Army) formed for resistance fighters.
New song in Top Ten: “Remember Pearl Harbor.”
February 13, 2017
Title Announcement!
Announcing the titles for my next World War II series and all three books in the series!
Many of you participated in my Title Brainstorm Game back in November, and what wonderful and creative ideas you had! To my surprise, my publisher, Revell, picked my working titles not only for Book 1 but for all three books in the series. And the new series title was not suggested by me or by anyone on the blog! I promised that if Revell picked your entry as the official series or book title, I’d enter you in a drawing for a free book.
But it made me sad not to give away another book. Plus, I’m celebrating turning in Book 1 to my editor! So I picked a name anyway – Paula MS! Paula, I’ll email you.
Now for the titles, starting with the series…
Sunrise at Normandy Series
One fateful night drove three brothers apart.
One fateful day thrusts them together…D-Day.
The three-book series follows three estranged brothers in the events leading up to D-Day.
One fateful night of tragedy and betrayal drove the Paxton brothers apart. Now, as D-Day approaches, they battle the Nazis on the sea, in the air, and on the ground. Three women capture their hearts—a British naval officer striving for acceptance, a Red Cross volunteer searching for purpose, and a librarian longing for family. Will the battles they face lead them to redemption . . . or destruction?
The Sea Before Us (Book 1, coming spring 2018)
Betrayal as deep . . .
Love as mysterious . . .
As the sea before them.
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France, determined to redeem himself with the brothers he has betrayed. Dorothy Fairfax serves as a “Wren” in the Women’s Royal Naval Service, striving for the love of her bereaved father and of the man she’s always adored, Lawrence Eaton. When Wyatt and Dorothy work together on Allied plans for D-Day, he hopes Dorothy will return his growing love. But will family secrets, misplaced affections—and the seas off Normandy—separate them forever?
The Sky Above Us (Book 2, coming spring 2019)
Secrets as vast . . .
Love as unreachable . . .
As the sky above them.
The Land Beneath Us (Book 3, coming spring 2020)
A dream as dangerous . . .
A love as solid . . .
As the land beneath them.
