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Well, Dog My Cats, as We Say Down South

Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results12th Annual IPPY Awards to be presented in Los Angeles on May 30th ****** 11. Historical/Military FictionGold: The Traitor’s Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II, by Susan Higginbotham (iUniverse)Silver (tie): Trail of the Red Butterfly, by Karl H. Schlesier (Texas Tech University Press) and Hundred in […]

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Saturday Night’s All Right for Back Patting

I was pleased to hear this morning that The Traitor’s Wife has been named as a semifinalist in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards‘ historical/military fiction category. Results will be announced on May 23, 2008. OK, back pat over. Anyway, while we’re on the subject of–er–me, C.W. Gortner, whose historical novel The Last Queen is

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Name That Novel!

I’m a little tired of referring to “the novel I’m writing set during the Wars of the Roses,” which features Henry Stafford, the second Duke of Buckingham, and Katherine Woodville, his wife. What I really need, then, is a working title. Here are a few possibilities. Harry Loses His HeadThe Woodvilles: Not So Bad After

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It’s Here!

It’s here! My sample copy of Hugh and Bess: A Love Story came in the mail on Saturday, and it’s now available to order here, either as a trade paperback or as an electronic download. It hasn’t gone live on Amazon or Barnes and Noble yet, but I’m hoping it will be within a couple

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Coming Soon! (With Even a Reappearance by Queen Isabella)

One of the reasons I’ve been somewhat quiet in blogdom lately is that I’ve been completing my second novel, Hugh and Bess, which follows the marriage of Hugh, the eldest son of Eleanor from The Traitor’s Wife, to Elizabeth de Montacute, daughter of the Earl of Salisbury. I’m in the proofreading stage now, and if

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Get Out the Popcorn

I’m coming up for air after a jag of book reviewing for the Historical Novels Review, so this will be a short post. Over the weekend, however, I did get a chuckle out of this video by iBookwatch entitled “Wife Themed Books.” (No, not those type of books–books that contain the word “wife” in the

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Between a Bride and a Highlander (Warning: Back Patting Here)

As you Amazon US denizens may have noticed, pulling up a listing on Amazon will now indicate if a book is on a “Top 100” list in various genres. One of the lists is for historical romance, a category that apparently isn’t to be taken too literally, since some non-romances, like The Other Boleyn Girl

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