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The Wizard's Cauldron: Sanguinary: The Review

The Wizard's Cauldron: Sanguinary: The Review: In 2003, I was a member of a forum in America called The Nook.  It was quite a social place at a time when social networking was just begi...

Kid Atomic by Mark Barry featured on The Examiner

About Author Mark Barry:

Mark Barry is the author of six books of different genres. He has written extensively on a variety of topics including, horse racing, football, personality disorders and human relationships.

Currently, Mark is a full time fiction writer and freelance blogger. He has been interviewed on several Radio talk shows where he has given readings of his work. His work has been featured in The Sun, Daily Mail and he has also been interviewed on television.

You can find his intensive independent author interviews at: http://greenwizard62.blogspot.co.uk/ .

You can find his interview by the well-known Phil Naeesen show at http://www.philnaessens.com/.

Click on the links below to hear the radio shows of Hollywood Shakedown and Ultra Violence.

Hollywood Shakedown:
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Ultra Violence:
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About Kid Atomic
Two childhood friends, Ricky and Kevin, are dispatched on a mission to London to bring back riot gear for an upcoming Citywide protest, part of the widespread national youth disenchantment with the Bankers, the Financiers, the Rich, the Normans, the Capitalists, the Tories and the rest of the “Haves” in an increasingly unequal Great Britain.

Actually, forget the politics. They think the job is going to be a right nobble. A road trip.
There’s thrash metal on the van CD player, money for as much food and drink as they can handle, and there’s a hot older babe waiting to meet them at the rendezvous. The job couldn’t be going better.
Everything is squeaky clean and hunky dory until they are told to take back an extra trunk.

A trunk the color of fire emblazoned with a Phoenix. A trunk no one planned for and which seems to have turned up from out of the blue. A trunk soon to be hidden in Kevin’s Mum’s garage.
Streetwise Ricky becomes seriously ill. Soon Kevin, a Gameboy playing, introverted geek, finds himself the center of attention for the local Police, a sinister Scottish Special Branch officer they call "The Devil", Mum’s nosy boyfriend, and the amoral leader of his own protest group - one Lance Brando, a thirty year old Machiavellian perpetual student with designs on Kevin’s girlfriend, Rachel.
A man who’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants.

If this isn't enough, one day, when things are seriously getting on top, something happens inside the trunk…and Kevin’s life will never be the same again!

What readers are saying:
~ the character development to be quite intricate and pulls the reader into the mind of several characters within the story
~ What makes this book a delight to read is the British quirk.
~ What makes this book a delight to read is the British quirk.

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History Trivia on Boxing Day

December 26   795 Leo III was elected Roman Catholic pope. Pope Saint Leo recognized Charlemagne as the patricius of the Romans, crowning the great leader Holy Roman Emperor who protected Pope Leo from his enemies.  He was an effective administrator of the papal territories, and contributed to the beautification of Rome.
Boxing Day - is a traditional celebration, dating back to medieval times, when gifts were given to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class.    

Ngaire Elder: Well Known Author K Meador Spotlighted...

Ngaire Elder: Well Known Author K Meador Spotlighted...:   In the Midst: Author K Meador Spotlighted... : About the Author: Born in Jacksonville, Florida and raised in Texas since age four,...

Carla (and other Green Wizard stories): e-edition Kid Atomic is free todayCelebrate Boxi...

Carla (and other Green Wizard stories): e-edition Kid Atomic is free today

Celebrate Boxi...: e-edition Kid Atomic is free today Celebrate Boxing Day with a free Kindle edition of Kid Atomic by Mark Barry. US Link http...

Kid Atomic by Mark Barry - Free Kindle Edition to celebrate Boxing Day

Celebrate  Boxing Day by downloading a free kindle copy of Kid Atomic
 US Link
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English Historical Fiction Authors: An Anglo Saxon Christmas

English Historical Fiction Authors: An Anglo Saxon Christmas: by Richard Denning Christmas is coming . Along with the new year celebrations that follow it, it is in Britain the most important festiva...

In the Midst: Author K Meador Spotlighted...

In the Midst: Author K Meador Spotlighted...: About the Author: Born in Jacksonville, Florida and raised in Texas since age four, K-Trina Meador is the youngest of five chil...

History Trivia

December 25, the date recognized by the Roman Catholic Church for the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas was also known as Yule (Anglo-Saxon) or Noel (French). 337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th. 352 First definite date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th.  498 French king Clovis baptized himself. 597 England adopted the Julian calendar. 795 Pope Adrian I died. The relationship of Adrian to Charlemagne was considered an ideal expression of Church and State in a united Christian society. 800 Charlemagne, King of the Franks, was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome. 875 Charles the Bald was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. 1100 Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity. 1156 Peter the Venerable died. As Abbot of Cluny, Peter of Montboissier made great reforms to the monastery that restored its influence in European religious politics. 1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembled the first Nativity scene. 1559 Pius IV was elected pope. Born Giovanni Angelo de'Medici, Pius concluded the Council of Trent and pursued reforms of the Papal Curia.

History Trivia

December 24

3 BC Servius Sulpicius Galba was born. He was emperor of Rome from 68-69AD.

563 The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes.

640 Pope John IV was elected. In his brief pontificate, John sent help to the victims of invaders in Dalmatia, opposed monothelitism and the Irish choice for the date of Easter, and defended the orthodoxy of Pope Honorius I.

1167 King John I of England was born. The youngest son of King Henry II, John lacked the trust of his barons and was maneuvered into signing the Magna Carta.



1294 Pope Boniface VIII was elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.

1476 400 Burgundy soldiers froze to death during siege of Nancy (Burgundian Wars, the battle finally being fought outside the walls on 5 January 1477 between Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and René II, Duke of Lorraine. René's forces won the battle, and Charles' mutilated body was found three days later.)

1515 Thomas Wolsey was appointed English Lord Chancellor.