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Laura C. Rader

Historical Fiction Author



  • July 28, 2024

    Hatfield 1677 Updates

    HATFIELD 1677 published May 2024 Rankings and Reviews Amazon Sales in Category of Historical Biographical Fiction             Top 25 Hot New Release for first 30 days             Continues to rank in the top 250 in sales             4.6 Overall Customer Rating             30 Ratings and 23 Reviews Goodreads             4.53 Overall Customer Rating             32…

  • June 21, 2024

    BOOK CLUB QUESTIONS

    HATFIELD 1677 BOOK CLUB QUESTIONS

  • June 21, 2024

    CHARACTER LIST HATFIELD 1677

    I hope I didn’t forget anybody:) MAIN AND SECONDARY CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Benjamin Waite            Puritan colonist and military scout Martha Leonard Waite   His wife, abducted at Hatfield Their children               Mary, Mattie and Sally, abducted at Hatfield The Allis Family           Their neighbors, whose home was within the stockade Lieutenant Allis and his wife…

  • June 21, 2024

    EXTRAS FOR READERS OF HATFIELD 1677

    If you bought my debut novel, you deserve a few freebies. I deeply appreciate your readership, your reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Goodreads, and your purchases that kept Hatfield 1677 on the Amazon Hot New Releases List for its eligible first month! Please continue to post reviews, recommend Hatfield 1677 to friends and…

  • June 15, 2024

    HAPPY FATHERS’ DAY

    My father passed in 2009 at the age of 86, my husband in 2012 at the age of 57, so all my daughter and I have today are memories. My mother was the one I turned to for hugs and confidences and comfort, but my father was the person for adventure. My Dad took me…

  • June 9, 2024

    AMAZON HOT NEW RELEASE!

    SALES Hatfield 1677 sales on Amazon have placed it in the top 25 throughout its first three weeks in the categories of Biographical Historical Fiction, Military Historical Fiction, Native American Literature, and US Colonial Period History. (Above image: June 9, #25, Biographical Historical Fiction) Thank you to all of you who have purchased Hatfield 1677…

  • May 27, 2024

    BIBLIOGRAPHY for Hatfield 1677

    As promised, a list of many, but not all, of the sources I used in my research for Hatfield 1677. I discovered the story of Massachusetts Bay Puritan colonists Benjamin and Martha Waite and their adversary, the Algonquian sachem Ashpelon, at the Carlsbad, California genealogical library in 1993. I continued my research in the summer…

  • May 22, 2024

    Available Now!

    Excerpt from Hatfield 1677, Chapter Three: On May 22, a small band of men traveled to the Falls to search for those who might have survived the battle, and to bury our dead. Filled with grief and the foreboding of more pain to come, I accompanied them. Blogs may be weekly this month as I…

  • May 13, 2024

    An Author’s Plea

    My debut novel, Hatfield 1677, will officially be released next week, Tuesday, May 21. It will be available for purchase online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I am diligently working to place it in indie bookstores and at Barnes & Noble bookstores here in North Carolina, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and in my childhood home…

  • May 5, 2024

    SOS

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