A round-up of sites, links and other interesting tidbits I’ve seen and heard lately. Smashwords 2014 Survey Link The annual Smashwords survey is always greeted with some interest around the publishing world, but as a reader, you might also find this year’s interesting as Mark Coker tries to predict the shape of reading for the […]
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Stonehenge is probably the most famous monolith in the western world, although it appears that every culture across the planet stood stones on their ends somewhere in history. There are monoliths even in the deepest parts of the jungle in Brazil! No one knows why Stonehenge in particular was built, nor can they agree on
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Historians disagree over what, exactly, is the last day of the Roman Empire. Today, September 4, is one of the two most popular choices. If you think of the Roman Empire with its epicenter as the city of Rome, then on this day in 476 is when the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was
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Please take note of the date of this post! If you’re reading this somewhere in the future, the book is probably no longer available for free and I don’t want you to be disappointed. Check the date line! 🙂 _____________ Solstice Surrenderis unusual in my paranormal romance collection: It’s a short novel (I have an
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It’s Labour Day here in Canada and also in the US. Normally, I use holidays like this to write all day (one of my personal pleasures). But my mother arrives in Canada on Friday, and my house is still recovering from renovation chaos (we’re still trying to get last minute stuff done). So I know
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Doppelgängers Unlike a lot of paranormal phenomenon, myths and fantasies, Doppelgängers have only been around for just over two centuries, yet the name is firmly entrenched in the England language and western society. We often refer to people who share similar physical appearances as someone’s doppelganger. Doppelgängers were the invention of Jean Paul, an eighteenth
Continuing this month’s (quite accidental) theme of “lasts” associated with historical events, here’s another one. Today marks the 48th anniversary of the Beatles’ last live performance (1966). They appeared at Candlestick Park in San Fransisco. The Beatles broke up as a band in 1970, but all of them went on to enjoy independent career success.
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Please take note of the date of this post! If you’re reading this somewhere in the future, the book is probably no longer available for free and I don’t want you to be disappointed. Check the date line! 🙂 _____________ Forbidden is book one of the Scandalous Sirens series, and it’s free until Sunday. I
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Today, please welcome guest blogger and historical romance author Marlow Kelly, who’s first book, A Woman of Honour, is due to be released in two day’s time. (And I love that the spelling of “honour’ in the title is the English version, too, which fits with the setting.) Here’s Marlow: ___ Most people have heard
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It’s a week for a lot of historical events, but this one is one of the more interesting events for me personally. I seem to have grown an interest in volcanoes over the last few years. One of my favourite movies is Dante’s Peak, which was a fictional volcano that blew in much the same
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