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July 29, 2014
Amazon and the ‘foreign’ writer
Mystery thriller
I live in South Africa and have several books (10) published on KDP. Amazon is refusing to pay me for book sales in certain global shops because I have not reached the obligatory $100 dollars sales target. As I have been in these shops for 3 years now, with minimal sales in these areas, I am unlikely to reach their target until I’m 140 years old. So I cancelled those shops on my list of outlets and requested the money owed. And guess what? They refuse to pay me unless I close...
June 11, 2014
D-Day Commemorations in Pictures
Stephen Liddell gives a stunning pictorial remembrance of D-Day – not to be missed!
Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Most of the D-Day veterans are sadly no longer with us but this past weekend has seen commemorations with some of the few more survivors. All photos from BBC, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Getty Images, AP.
A Paris Guard of Honour escorts The Queen down the Champs Elysees in Paris
The Queen is the only state leader who served during WW2 and here she is laying a wr...
May 25, 2014
Finding magic and legend in a sleepy Welsh village.
Jenny Lloyd of “Leap the Wild Water” fame is travelling the beautiful countryside of Wales. A journey full of scenic wonder, history and cosy anecdotes.
Originally posted on jennylloydwriter:
Myddfai is a little more than a cluster of pastel-coloured cottages encircling a church. Yet, in the 11th and 12th centuries it was a centre for healing, inhabited by the Physicians of Myddfai, renowned across Wales. The remedies of these herbalists were recorded in the Red Book of Hergest; o...
May 24, 2014
MY INTERVIEW WITH ACCOMPLISHED STORYTELLER CHRISTOPH FISCHER
Bob Rector interviews the very interesting Christoph Fischer – writer, reader and reviewer extraordinaire!
Originally posted on RectorWriter:
Christoph Fischer was born in Germany, near the Austrian border, as the son of a Sudeten-German father and a Bavarian mother. Not a full local in the eyes and ears of his peers he developed an ambiguous sense of belonging and home in Bavaria. He moved to Hamburg in pursuit of his studies and to lead a life of literary indulgence. After a few...
May 20, 2014
Game of Thrones – The fact behind the fiction
Stephen Liddell shows how close the plot of Game of Thrones runs to the fascinating and complex plots of medieval English history.
Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Like many others I am an avid fan of Game of Thrones, not the novels as I simply don’t have time to read them but most definitely the television series. However I don’t have access to the particular TV channel that broadcasts it in the UK so like probably many others are a year behind and watching the events over o...
May 5, 2014
The Writing Process – Monday Blog Hop
Welcome to the Monday Blogs Writing Process Blog Hop!
The talented Jenny Lloyd invited me to post and many thanks to her for including me. Jenny is the author of the compelling historical novel “Leap the Wild Water” – set in Wales in the early 1800s; a deeply moving romantic drama and very authentic social commentary on the times. You can find Jenny’s book here. And visit her blog here.
Psychological suspense crime thriller
Writing is a different process for everybody. But every writer experienc...
April 22, 2014
April 23rd is Saint George’s Day – The Patron Saint of England & dragon slayer extraordinaire
Today – April 23 – is St George’s day! And here is the history of St George (and the dragon) from Stephen Liddell.
Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Wednesday is April 23rd and St. George’s Day which is remembered annually on the day of his death. Whilst his famous dragon slaying exploits are the stuff of legend, Saint George himself was porn in the Roman-Palestine town of Lydda around 275AD. Both his parents were Greek and George himself served in the Roman Army.
Saint George...
January 18, 2014
My review: Leap the Wild Water – history up close and personal
I have just finished reading ‘Leap the Wild Water’ by Jenny Lloyd – a wrenching historical drama set in rural Wales in the early 19th century. Increasingly, I am finding Indie authors who have put together fine work – language, story, structure, research, background, etc. As a writer myself, I’m aware of the work that goes into achieving these high standards. I understand the difficulty when the excitement of the idea hits the cold white space of the page – and the double difficulty of doing...
November 17, 2013
A Wink in Space
Many years ago I read “A Year of the Quiet Sun – one year at Scott Base” (published 1968) by Adrian Hayter. It was about a year spent in Antarctica during a period when the sun flares are at their lowest ‘shrink’ so to speak. I can’t remember the book very well but I learned that the sun’s flares expand and shrink at a fairly regular pace, following a time pattern of around 11 years at a stretch. Not unexpectedly, this phenomenon affects our climate. In the flare years, there will be hotter t...
November 16, 2013
Armistice Day – Remembrance Sunday
Moving tribute to those fallen in The Great War. We need writing like this – truly lest we forget.
Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
I am re-posting this article from last year as many of my reader won’t have seen it before and it is still one of the most viewed posts I have written.
Sunday sees the third, final and probably by far the most important in the triumvirate of special days in the UK autumn calendar, Armistice Day. Regular readers of my blog will know that I take an...
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