And…on to our next pinnable from God’s Daughter, in which Gudrid–wife, mother, and loyal sister-in-law–has determined not to be a victim of her circumstances. Would love it if you’d pin this one somewhere to get the word out.
GOD’S DAUGHTER Quotes Pin Series
We still have some Lazy Days of Summer book reviews coming down the pike, but I couldn’t wait to launch this next blog series. I wanted to share little bits of my Viking novel, God’s Daughter, with you, so I decided to go the PicMonkey route and give you pinnable quotes and pictures. I will freely admit it took me… Read More
Big News on my Viking Novel, GOD’S DAUGHTER!
Okay…hope you have about five minutes to watch this…then please respond below! I hope you will share my excitement! I couldn’t wait till my regular Monday posting schedule to let you all know!
What is your Book’s PURPOSE?
One of my fave histfic books ever. Not too many details yet evokes a time period. Driving first-person storyline. I just read an excellent post by Baker acquisitions editor Chad Allen here: http://www.chadrallen.com/2012/11/29/the-not-very-sexy-essential-to-your-books-mind-blowing-success/. Basically, he was in a situation where he had to explain what need would be met by the book he presented to the publishing committee. In other… Read More
What’s Wrong with Medieval?
Something from my Pinboard: http://menwholooklikevikings.tumblr.com/post/35315102848/viikinkisoturi-ii-jarkko1 I recently read an interesting post by Tamara Leigh, a multi-published author: infinitecharacters.com/2012/11/23/a-traditionally-published-author-wades-into-the-waters-of-self-publishing-by-tamara-leigh/. She discusses how she got some push-back from Christian book publishers on her medieval books, because “inspirational publishers were wary of novels set during the medieval time period due to the stigma of corruption within the Church, the Crusades, and the Inquisition.”… Read More
Why Vikings are “Boss”
My son’s newest word for cool or awesome is boss. As in, “Zelda: Skyward Sword is BOSS.” “The Ranger’s Apprentice book is BOSS.” I’m going to let you in on a secret. Vikings are BOSS. There was an incredible amount of online buzz about the multi-faceted bad-guy Loki in the previous Thor movie. But there’s already palpable excitement about the… Read More