Tag: historicalfiction
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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…
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Judging a Book by Its Cover
Yesterday was the full cover reveal of my soon-to-be-published historical fiction novel, Hatfield 1677. My publisher, Acorn Publishing, used the services of Damonza to create a beautiful cover. I was part of the process, and sent them assorted images I found online that shared my vision but never completely, and vague descriptions such as “I…
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A Gift to You-Cut Scene from Hatfield 1677
Sinterklass und Zwarte Piete, Netherlands and New Amsterdam My main character, Benjamin Waite, and his friend Stephen Jennings, traveled hundreds of miles on their quest to find their captured wives and children and ransom them back from their Algonquian captors. As they must travel through the colony of New York, only recently taken by the…
Laura C. Rader 