A warm welcome to Apple Gidley and her new book, Annie’s Day. In this post, Apple also considers how authors react to reviews. Annie’s Dayby Apple Gidley Published November 2025 / 300 pages Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/mZJq05 Vine Leaves Press Paperback Buy Link: https://shorturl.at/cUXbU War took everything. Love never had a chance. Until now. AsContinue reading “Annie’s Day”
Category Archives: Guest blog
The Wartime Trans-Siberian Railway
By Deborah Swift Chiune Sugihara and family with two German soldiers on the steps of Japanisches Generalkonsulat, the Japanese consulate in Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Germany, 1941 Originally black and white photograph colorized Julius Jääskeläinen. Visas for Life Among the most extraordinary stories linked to the Trans-Siberian escape route was that of Jewish refugees aided by Chiune Sugihara, theContinue reading “The Wartime Trans-Siberian Railway”
Traitor’s Game – background and research
Thanks to Rosemary Hayes for this fascinating post on research and background into her latest work of fiction, “Traitor’s Game” https://mybook.to/TraitorsGame_RHayes Traitor’s Game – background and researchby Rosemary Hayes – https://rosemaryhayes.co.uk/ When I was asked to write a series of novellas set during the Napoleonic Wars, I knew I would find it a daunting task.Continue reading “Traitor’s Game – background and research”
The Fugitive’s Sword
Eleanor Swift-Hook’s Book 1 in a new series is The Fugitive’s Sword. The Lord’s Learning series traces the story of Philip Lord. Forced into exile by a charge of treason as a boy of fifteen, he rises to become a commander of men on land and at sea, with a reputation for ruthlessness in the brutalContinue reading “The Fugitive’s Sword”
Researching Radio Propaganda in WW2
By Deborah Swift for The Shadow Network Tour The idea of manipulating the public through ‘fake news’ has many resonances for today, and this is what led me to be interested in the subject for a novel. How the media is controlled, and how it can influence large swathes of the population is still ofContinue reading “Researching Radio Propaganda in WW2”
Scotland, 1356 – The Douglas Bastard
Welcome JR Tomlin to the blog with a guest post on 14th century Scotland – the background to The Douglas Bastard and her Archibald the Grim Series. Published 2022 / 185 pages @tomlinjeanne @cathiedunn #HistoricalFiction #MedievalScotland #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub Archibald the Grim Series on Amazon: Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BDW1VJ61 / Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDW1VJ61 Author Bio: J RContinue reading “Scotland, 1356 – The Douglas Bastard”
The Last Great Saxon Earls
Welcome to Mercedes Rochelle, author of The Last Great Saxon Earls series, with a guest post on Malcolm III and Tostig Godwineson. Mercedes Rochelle is an ardent lover of medieval history, and has channeled this interest into fiction writing. She believes that good Historical Fiction, or Faction as it’s coming to be known, is anContinue reading “The Last Great Saxon Earls”
Writing the DCI Jack Callum Mysteries
By Len Maynard 1) Three Monkeys ‘The Last Train to San Fernando barrelled down the stairs carried on Johnny Duncan’s nasal whine. Jack Callum sighed, laid down his newspaper and went out into the hall.’ Those were the first lines of a Jack Callum novel ever to find their way onto my computer in theContinue reading “Writing the DCI Jack Callum Mysteries”
JULIA PRIMA
Welcome to Alison Morton for a spotlight on her new novel, JULIA PRIMA, plus an enlightening guest post on “The Terror of Writing” JULIA PRIMA (Roma Nova series) Publication Date: August 23rd, 2022 / 335 pages “You should have trusted me. You should have given me a choice.” AD 370, Roman frontier province of Noricum.Continue reading “JULIA PRIMA”
Exploring the history behind “Raleigh, Tudor Adventurer”
A guest post by bestselling author, Tony Riches Tudor adventurer, courtier, explorer and poet, Sir Walter Raleigh has been called the last true Elizabethan. Even today, the words ‘El Dorado’ seem full of mystery and promise. It’s easy to see how an ambitious explorer like Raleigh would be fascinated by the stories of a cityContinue reading “Exploring the history behind “Raleigh, Tudor Adventurer””