Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors (3 page)
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Denvil, Barbara Gaskell
Barbara Gaskell Denvil was born in Gloucestershire, England. Moving to London, she built up a career publishing numerous short stories and articles while also working as a critic and editor, television scriptwriter, and publishers’ reader. She then spent many hot and colourful years sailing the Mediterranean and living in various European countries. Finally, she has moved to rural Australia where she lives amongst the parrots and wallabies and writes historical fiction.
Elliot, Grace
Grace Elliot leads a double life as a veterinarian by day and author of historical romance by night. She is addicted to cats and is housekeeping staff for five adorable moggies—Wallace, Gromit, Pilchard, Widget, and her daughter Noni. Grace started writing as an escape from an emotionally demanding job and believes all intelligent people need romance in their lives—as an antidote to the modern world.
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English, Christy
After years of acting in Shakespeare’s plays, Christy English is excited to bring the Bard to Regency England in her recent romances published by Sourcebooks Casablanca (
How To Tame A Willful Wife, Love on A Midsummer Night
). Christy indulged her obsession with Eleanor of Aquitaine and 12th century England and France in her historical novels
The Queen’s Pawn
and
To Be Queen.
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Gilbert, Lauren
Lauren Gilbert lives in Florida with her husband. Lauren obtained a degree in English and Art History, and is a member of JASNA. An avid reader, she has always dreamed of writing, and has a stockpile of notes and manuscripts started and laid aside.
Heyerwood: A Novel
is her first published novel.
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Grace, Maria
Though Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, those early efforts happily reside in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of day again, for which many are grateful. She has one husband, two graduate degrees and two black belts, three sons, four undergraduate majors, five nieces, six cats, seven Regency-era fiction projects and notes for eight more writing projects in progress. To round out the list, she cooks for nine in order to accommodate the growing boys and usually makes ten meals at a time so she only cooks twice a month.
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Higginbotham, Scott
Scott Higginbotham is the author of
A Soul’s Ransom
,
For a Thousand Generations
, and
A Matter of Honor
, novels which complement one another. All the books are historical in nature and are populated with characters and contexts that connect with modern readers. He believes that books should serve as a means of escaping the trials of daily living, where the impossible becomes possible, and where readers are refreshed and left with good and enduring truths.
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Higgins, Marie
Marie Higgins is a best-selling, multi-published author of sweet romance—from refined bad-boy heroes who make your heart melt to the feisty heroines who somehow manage to love them regardless of their faults. Visit her website/blog to discover more about her.
Inbinder, Gary
Gary Inbinder is a retired attorney who left the practice of law to write full time. Gary holds a J.D. from the University of La Verne (California) where he received an American Jurisprudence Award for Legal Writing and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Gary is a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Bewildering Stories Editorial Review Board. His short fiction, articles, and essays appear in
Bewildering Stories
,
Halfway Down the Stairs
,
Morpheus Tales
,
Humanitas
,
Touchstone Magazine
and other publications. Fireship Press published his novels
The Flower to the Painter
(2011) and
Confessions of the Creature
(2012)
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Jones, Sherry
Internationally best-selling novelist and award-winning journalist Sherry Jones has been writing professionally since the age of 18, when she landed her first newspaper reporting job in her hometown. She says, “I strive for beautifully written page-turners that explore relationships and power, especially women’s power in a man’s world. My novels portray women in history who have achieved power over others as well as—especially—over their own lives, in spite of patriarchal limits. I hope that, in telling their stories, I can inspire others to dream big, to aim high, to dare to make a difference no matter how impossible doing so might seem.”
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Keyworth, Philippa Jane
Known to her friends as Pip, Philippa Jane Keyworth has been writing since she was twelve in every notebook she could find. Add to this her love for reading, history, and horse-riding, and you have the perfect recipe for writing Regency romances. Pip’s debut novel,
The Widow’s Redeemer
(Madison Street Publishing, 2012), brings to life the romance between a young widow with an indomitable spirit and a wealthy viscount with an unsavory reputation.
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Kyle, Barbara
Barbara Kyle is the author of the acclaimed Tudor-era “Thornleigh Saga” novels
The Queen’s Lady, The King’s Daughter, The Queen’s Captive, The Queen’s Gamble
and
Blood Between Queens
and of contemporary thrillers. Her books have been published in seven countries, with over 400,000 copies sold in North America. Barbara is known for her dynamic workshops for writers. Before becoming an author Barbara enjoyed a twenty-year acting career in the U.S. and Canada. She and her husband live in Ontario.
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Lewis, Diane Scott
Diane Parkinson (Diane Scott Lewis) writes book reviews for the
Historical Novels Review
and worked at The Wild Rose Press from 2007 to 2010 as a historical editor. She has three published historical novels:
Elysium
and
The False Light
, and her sequel to
The False Light
,
Without Refuge
, which was released in March 2012. Her debut novel,
The False Light
, will be re-released by Books We Love, re-titled
Betrayed Countess
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Lofting, Paula
Paula Lofting works as a psychiatric nurse and writes in her spare time. She lives in Sussex and is an active member of Regia Anglorum re-enactment society. It was always her ambition to write a novel. In her forties, she began on the journey that has led her to her first book,
Sons of the Wolf
, the first in a series of books about the Norman conquest of England. She is currently working on the sequel
The Wolf Banner
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Lortz, Rosanne E.
Rosanne E. Lortz is a medieval enthusiast, a book addict, and a native of Oregon. She taught high school history for several years before “retiring” to stay at home with her four boys and write historical fiction. Her debut novel,
I Serve: A Novel of the Black Prince
, is a fourteenth century adventure/romance. Her second book,
Road from the West: Book I of the Chronicles of Tancred
, begins a trilogy set during the First Crusade.
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Luce, Wanda
Wanda Luce’s great passion for British Literature was born in the stories spun by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. The old-world vocabulary and sentence construction as well as the historical settings of their books hold a strong enchantment for her and propelled her into a love of writing Regency-era novels. At present, she resides with her husband and two sons in Utah.
McGrath, Carol
Carol has a degree in Russian Studies and English from Queens University, Belfast, where she was taught by Seamus Heaney. She took an MA in Creative Writing at QUB in 2003 and followed this with an MPhil at Royal Holloway (University of London in English and Creative Writing). She currently reviews for the HNS Review. Carol’s debut novel,
The Handfasted Wife,
first in the trilogy
The Daughters of Hastings,
is published by Accent Press and can be purchased for all e-readers and as a paperback from Amazon.
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Moss, Tom
Tom Moss is a textile technologist by profession and currently manages a specialist weaving concern in north Cumbria, England, just a few miles south of the border between England and Scotland. Fascinated by its turbulent history, Tom’s passion is the Border Reivers—a people whose history is replete with theft, murder, and family feud; a people who had no love for either monarchy or authority. Tom’s blog has more than 100 posts about the Border Reivers at
http://wwwborderreiverstories-neblessclem.blogspot.com/
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O’Brien, Anne
Anne O’Brien lives in the Welsh Marches, indulging her love of history by writing about medieval women, their lives, loves, and the influences that shaped them. Anne Neville, wife of Richard III stars in
Virgin Widow
, splendid Eleanor of Aquitaine in
Queen Defiant
.
The King’s Concubine
features Alice Perrers, mistress to Edward III, and Katherine de Valois relives her marriage to Henry V and affair with Owen Tudor in
The Forbidden Queen
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Parrillo, Vincent
Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University, Vincent is author of the historical novel
Guardians of the Gate
and a dozen college textbooks, as well as General Editor of the two-volume
Encyclopedia of Social Problems.
Writer, narrator, and producer of three PBS documentaries, his latest,
The Sculptor Laureate of Paterson
, premiered in April 2013. A Fulbright scholar and senior specialist, he has been a guest lecturer at dozens of universities in Asia, Europe, Canada, and the United States.
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Pym, Katherine
Katherine Pym is the author of historical novels set in 1660s London with one novel of the French Revolution. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and puppy dog.
Queeney, Tim
In addition to writing books, Tim is a magazine editor, filmmaker, celestial navigation instructor, a dad, and an offshore sailor. He also writes a news satire site called Height of Eye (timqueeney.com) which provides the latest in nonsensical news and curdled current events. He lives in Maine and can hear the fog horns of three lighthouses when the fog rolls in.
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Rendell, Mike
Mike Rendell is author of a book
The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman,
based on the array of diaries, journals, accounts—even shopping lists—left by his 4xgreat grandfather, Richard Hall. It tells the story of everyday life in the eighteenth century, seen through the eyes of his ancestor who had a haberdashery shop at Number One London Bridge. Details of the book appear on his website.
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Russell, Arthur
Arthur Russell is a native of County Meath, Ireland. He is a professional in Agro-Industry and has worked in Ireland, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. When he is not on assignments abroad, he lives with his family in Navan. His interests include history, especially local history, photography, and music.
Morgallion
, his first book, is a historic novel based on actual events during the Bruce Invasion of Ireland in 1315.
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Simonsen, Mary Lydon
Mary Lydon Simonsen is the author of several
Pride and Prejudice
and
Persuasion
re-imaginings. She is also the author of the Patrick Shea mystery series.
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Skea, Margaret
Margaret Skea grew up in Ulster at the height of the “Troubles”, but now lives in Scotland. Her passion for Scotland’s turbulent history and her own Ulster-Scots heritage led to
Turn of the Tide—
Historical Fiction Winner, Harper Collins People’s Novelist Competition 2011—judged “outstanding” by Jeffrey Archer. An award-winning short story writer, Margaret has been published in a range of magazines and anthologies in Britain and the USA.
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St. John, Peter
Peter St. John is best known for his six “Gang” books about children’s gangs during World War II. These novels spring from adventures in an English village as an evacuee from the London Blitz. Two other novels draw on his career as a chartered engineer in aerospace research, as well as from experience within parliamentary and governmental organizations. He lives in France where he is president of a cultural association.
