My guest today is the wonderful Helen Hollick. Helen started writing pony stories as a young teenager. She moved onto science fiction and fantasy and then discovered the delight of writing historical fiction. Helen is published in the UK and the US with her books about King Arthur and the 1066 Battle of Hastings, officially making the USA Today best… read more
On Inspiration: Interview with Eva Stachniak
My guest today is Eva Stachniak author of The Winter Palace, her novel of Catherine the Great which was an international bestseller, and has been included in The Washington Post 2012 list of most notable fiction. Empress of the Night, her second Catherine the Great novel, has just been published in Canada and the US. Itis also available in the… read more
Australia Day Blog Hop: Interview With M K Tod
Aussies celebrate Australia Day this weekend! To give you a chance to share in the celebrations I’m offering the chance to win a Kindle version of Kate Morton’s The Shifting Fog together with an ebook version of The Golden Dice: A Tale of Ancient Rome in the AUSTRALIA DAY BOOK GIVEAWAY BLOG HOP. As part of the blog hop, I’m… read more
On Inspiration: Alison Stuart
My guest today is fellow Aussie, Alison Stuart, who is an award winning writer of historicals with heart. Whether duelling with dashing cavaliers or waywards ghosts, her books provide a reader with a meaty plot and characters who have to strive against adversity, always with the promise of happiness together. Alison is a lapsed lawyer who has worked in the… read more
On Inspiration: Interview with Gillian Bagwell
My guest today is Gillian Bagwell whose richly detailed historical novels bring to vivid life England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her latest book, Venus in Winter, is based on the first forty years of the life of the formidable four-times widowed dynast Bess of Hardwick who survived the turbulent reigns of five Tudor monarchs to become one of… read more
On Inspiration: Interview with Sherry Jones
My guest today is Sherry Jones, an American journalist and the internationally best selling author of the controversial The Jewel of Medina and other historical fiction novels about women’s power. She is also a speaker on issues including women’s rights, free speech, and Islamophobia. Her novels explore the obstacles women have long faced in reaching their highest potential in a… read more
On Inspiration: Jesse Blackadder
My guest today is Jesse Blackadder who is fascinated by landscapes, adventurous women and very cold places. Her novel The Raven’s Heart won the Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award and was published in Australia in 2011 and in the UK, USA and Canada in 2012. Chasing the light: A novel of Antarctica,which she wrote as part of a Doctor of… read more
On Inspiration: Interview with Kate Forsyth : Australia Day Book Giveaway Bloghop
Aussies celebrate Australia Day this weekend! To give you a chance to share in the celebrations I’m offering the chance to win a copy of Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens in the AUSTRALIA DAY BOOK GIVEAWAY BLOG HOP. Make sure you visit Shelleyrae at Book’d Out and the girls at Confessions from Romaholics to find out other blogs who are participating… read more
The Next Big Thing – An Author’s Blog Hop
Loretta Proctor, author of The Long Shadow, Middle Watch and The Crimson Bed has tagged me in The Next Big Thing, an author’s blog hop. Loretta was born in Cairo, Egypt to an English father and Greek mother. She won prizes in the 1970’s for essays and plays, wrote specialized articles, studied psychology and worked as a counselor. Now retired… read more
On Inspiration: Interview with Christy English
My guest today is Christy English, author of The Queen’s Pawn and To Be Queen. After years of acting in Shakespeare’s plays, Christy is excited to bring the Bard to Regency England in her new novel How To Tame A Willful Wife which has just been released. When she isn’t acting, roller skating, or chasing the Muse, Christy writes from… read more
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