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MJ Porter welcomes you to The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles
Hello readers, and welcome to The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles. Hopefully, our young hero, Icel, an orphaned youth living at the Mercian royal centre of Tamworth, has already won your heart. If not, I can promise you stories of courage, deadly danger, sorrow and a...
Meet the Women of The Lost Daughters of Ukraine
Women play so many different roles throughout their lives, and I wanted to illustrate that a bit in my three main characters, Vika, Liliya, and Halya, who are all experiencing the war in various ways and points in their lives. Vika is first and foremost a mother....
The Inspiration Behind The Lost Daughters of Ukraine by Erin Litteken
World War 2 devastated Ukraine. The Eastern Front rolled back and forth across the countryside, leaving ten million Ukrainians homeless and decimating nearly 29,000 cities and villages. Western Ukraine, where my grandfather was born, was ruled by Poland during the...
MILLION COPIES SOLD 🎉 Jessica Redland’s letter to her readers
I’m so excited to share a big announcement. I’ve reached a sales milestone with my amazing publisher, Boldwood Books, which I never even dreamed would be possible: ONE MILLION SALES! This includes sales across all formats – print, digital, and audio – up until the end...
The Inspiration Behind the Holly Berry Sweet Shop Series by Hannah Lynn
Like many writers, I draw on my experiences to create the worlds in my books, but never so deeply or personally as I did with my latest book, The Sweet Shop of Second Chances. Not only is Bourton-on-the-Water, the village where the story takes place, a real location,...
Corfu – a love story!
Corfu – a love story! So many of my novels are set on the gorgeous Greek island of Corfu where I have a home. From my very first holiday to the village of Kassiopi, through years of visiting the Mareblue Beach Hotel in Agios Spyridon, to finally buying my own house,...
Jo Bartlett shares her inspiration for One Last Summer at Seabreeze Farm
It was probably inevitable that one day I would write a series set on a farm or small holding, because I grew up in the countryside, six miles from the nearest town, surrounded by farmland, on a few acres of land where my parents built their own home. We were always...
The YMCA in my Family’s History by Tracy Baines
During both world wars, the YMCA provided a warm welcome and recreational activities for forces and civilians alike. Within ten days of the declaration of World War, one 250 huts sprang up all over the United Kingdom for this purpose and went on to establish temporary...
Donovan Cook’s Top 5 Viking Reading Recommendations
Donovan Cook's Top 5 Non-Fiction Viking Reading Recommendations The Viking Anthology by Bibliotech This book is a treasure trove of Norse mythology and Icelandic Sagas. It contains all of the sagas written by Snorri Sturluson and the Icelandic Sagas and it helped me...
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