![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of the most frequently asked question we hear. We very much hope that the answers will be interesting and if it leads to a few more people learning about an extraordinary place then we see that as a very good thing. We are of course delighted that so many people have been inspired to learn more about the early medieval period as a result, but its not always easy to give simple answer to some of the more common question – such as: how much of the story is real? That is not an easy question to answer as the books are very well researched and draw a great deal from historical reality, but of course in the end they are a work of fiction telling a good yarn! In the next few blogs we will aim to cover the areas where the story touches on historical reality and what Bamburgh would have been like at that time. It would have looked very different in his day but was even by then almost certainly a stone fortress. The principal palace fortress of the Earls of Northumbria and a place so important to Uhtred. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Aside from a 48 hour promotional period on Kindle during which thousands of readers will download free versions of Overlay – A Tale of One Girl’s Life in 1970s Las Vegas, I am giving away free eBook versions on a couple of websites and blogs as well. In the time it took me to type the above, forty versions of my blood, sweat and tears were downloaded to Kindles across the world.īut that’s not all I’m giving away. Why? Because I’m watching precious versions of my memoir – which took me three years to write, edit and self-publish – fly out the proverbial Amazon door for FREE. Give Your Work Away for Free and Make MoneyĪs I write this post, I’m clicking back and forth between this page and my Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing page. Tonight’s guest blog post, on the topic of free eBooks and marketing, is brought to you by non-fiction author Marlayna Glynn Brown. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each book is signed by Greg Bear and Allen Koszowski, with an Estate-approved facsimile signature by James Blish. ![]() The signed edition is limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. This new edition of A Case of Conscience has an introduction by Greg Bear, new cover artwork by Pascal Casolari, new interior art by Allen Koszowski, and archival artwork by Darrell K. This is the first book of the quartet of books called After Such Knowledge. Book two of the series, Doctor Mirabilis, will be available later in 2021 and books three and four, Black Easter and The Day After Judgment, will be available in 2022. He had to accept an ancient and unforgivable heresy - and, in accepting that heresy, he risked the futures of both worlds. On Lithia, Father Ruiz-Sanchez also found a scientific riddle, and he was presented with an ethical problem that reached across two worlds.įather Ruiz-Sanchez was then torn in a struggle between the teachings of his faith, the teachings of his science, and the inner promptings of his humanity. There he came upon a race of aliens - reptilian in form - who were admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason they were incapable of faith and belief. He found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or in his ethics until he was sent to Lithia. Father Ruiz-Sanchez was a dedicated man - a priest who was also a scientist, and a scientist who was also a human being. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have to give credit where credit is due. I was never the reader type until "Twilight" of course. I never thought I would actually write a book much less read one. ![]() You can always find me at the drag strip next to my husband, on the sidelines yelling at my son's football games, and texting from the other room of the house with my daughter. When I am not reading or writing I am constantly in my family's corner. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īorn and raised in Georgia. With time running out, and danger facing her from all sides, will the love she shared with Declan be enough to draw him back to her, and will Declan return in time to save Sloane from the darkness her enemies hope to awaken? (this book also includes the Novella Declan's Wicked Temptation as a bonus) ![]() It is filled with immortal beings, including some who know the prophecy surrounding Sloane, and their intentions are not healthy ones. The world around Sloane is not at all what it seems. Everything seems to be on the right track until Sloane learns the truth about the mysterious stranger and why Declan left so abruptly. When Declan suddenly leaves her life, Sloane struggles to move on and find happiness, but her thoughts are continuously plagued by the love they once shared, that is until a handsome stranger enters the picture. Her powers are slowly simmering beneath the surface, as is the love she holds for Declan. Sloane has a secret growing inside her, and she has always known she was.different. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Helen’s impairment, she still understood a lot of what was happening around her, and could complete small tasks, play games with her dog and the daughter of the family cook, and even get into mischief and danger, once nearly knocking her baby sister Mildred from the crib where she slept.Īs Helen grew, so did her desire to express herself. In the months after Helen’s illness, she clung tightly to her mother, and the two of them developed a few crude signs by which Helen could communicate her wants and needs. ![]() ![]() Helen’s fever eventually broke, but the illness left her blind, dumb, and deaf. When she was nearly two years old, however, she was struck with a sickness which gave her a high fever and which her parents and her doctor all feared she would not survive. The beginning of Helen’s life was ordinary but joyful-she lived with her parents in a small house on a large familial estate, and was a happy and intrepid child. Helen’s paternal lineage can be traced back to Switzerland, where one of her ancestors, ironically, was the first teacher of deaf children in Zurich. Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small town in Northern Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will make you cry because you suddenly become so invested into the story you picked up out of a mood and you can’t bear the fact that the story will be over in a heartbeat because you can’t put it down.Īnd you also know, these few pages will be so intense and will make you feel SO many different emotions all at ones. YA further means that it might open a door in your mind, in your heart and will make you cry. But YA also means we find out which family troubles our main character has to deal with. YA is a great distraction, a quick and sweet read about a teenage love story. ![]() ![]() When it comes to YA reads, we open the door to a great collection of possible new favorite books. ![]() ![]() The book also featured Lola Montez, the fabulous beauty of the age, and her lover Ludwig, the mad King of Bavaria. Flashy gives the reader the true story, involving Bismarck and the Schleswig-Holstein affair. The idea was that Hope had used Flashman's adventures to invent the tale of Rudolf Rassendyll, the Englishman who was the double of the King of Ruritania. This was a double literary conceit, with Flashman, a character from one Victorian novel, getting involved in the plot of another, Anthony Hope's 1894 classic The Prisoner of Zenda. Flashman was turned down a dozen times before Herbert Jenkins, the small independent house best known for publishing PG Wodehouse, brought it out.įraser followed it the next year with Royal Flash. ![]() ![]() It is hard now, with Flashman recognised as an international comic classic, to believe that Fraser had difficulty getting the book published. ![]() ![]() Mauldin recalled the meeting in his book, “The Brass Ring,” published in 1972: “There he sat, big as life even at that distance. ![]() 29, 1921, in Mountain Park, N.M., the son of a hard-drinking jack-of-all-trades who moved the family around the Southwest and northern Mexico during the Depression in search of work.Ī meeting between Patton and Mauldin was arranged after Patton threatened to stop distribution of Stars and Stripes in 3rd Army areas because of cartoons and photographs which depicted soldiers in “unsoldierly” appearance. He sat in the corner watching the world go by,” Rooney said. “There was a Patton-type general with one of his aides, and he was looking over this beautiful vista, and he says to the aide, ‘Is there one of these for the enlisted men?’ “There was one cartoon that just infuriated Patton,” Rooney said in a recent phone interview. Patton.Īndy Rooney, a commentator for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” worked for Stars and Stripes with Mauldin during World War II. Mauldin, who was an Army rifleman, drew a pair of tired and downtrodden soldiers named Willie and Joe, whose wry observations of life on Europe’s front lines were loved by soldiers and loathed by many in command, including Gen. One of the 20th century’s pre-eminent editorial cartoonists, Mauldin died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, including pneumonia, at a Newport Beach, Calif., nursing home, said Andy Mauldin, one of the cartoonist’s seven sons. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his preface, Santas states that the Republic is "a book that is always contemporary," and this sentiment carries through in the focus and method of his book. He does this, though, through a particular methodological lens. In his book, Gerasimos Santas aims to help the reader better understand the Republic by focusing on its central argument - that we are better off just than unjust. ![]() This is, to be sure, a daunting task, particularly for readers who are approaching the dialogue for the first time. Readers must make sense not only of those issues in their own right but they must also understand them in relation to the larger themes and arguments of the work. There are any number of reasons for this, but one of them is the sheer breadth of topics and issues that Plato introduces over the course of the dialogue. It is also devilishly difficult to truly understand. The Republic is undoubtedly one of Plato's masterworks and one of the most influential and widely read books in the history of philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() One who's determined that this time, Flora Dane will never escape. realizes a far more sinister predator is out there. ![]() ![]() Is Flora a victim or a vigilante? And with her firsthand knowledge of criminal behavior, could she hold the key to rescuing a missing college student whose abduction has rocked Boston? When Flora herself disappears, D.D. Warren is called to the scene of a crime-a dead man and the bound, naked woman who killed him-she learns that Flora has tangled with three other suspects since her return to society. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she's become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who've never made it home. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. Lisa Gardner's runaway New York Times bestseller-a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. ![]() |