by jenna | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
While on holiday in Spain in June 2010, we returned to our villa to find it had been burgled. Standing outside the open window, we didn’t know whether the perpetrators were still inside, and it was terrifying. I read a lot of crime fiction, and that paralysing fear...
by jenna | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why did I take my characters to the Isle of Sheppey in Eagle of Mercia I hear you cry. Well, the reasoning was sound – there was a monastery on the Isle of Sheppey, just off the coast of Kent, and it’s written that Viking raiders were there ‘Here heathen men raided...
by jenna | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Nia Beynon | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
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....
by Nia Beynon | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Claire | Apr 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
