by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Aug 9, 2018 | Checkmate Clans and Castles
There have been a lot of comments about the cover of Checkmate: Clans and Castles. Eye-catching and unusual, reviewers and contest judges have been keen to connect the dots between all the different elements, leading to this post on the thought that goes into a cover....
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Jul 6, 2018 | Checkmate Clans and Castles, On Writing, River Passage, Songbirds are Free
If you’d prefer to watch a video version of this blog, visit my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/uJBkk6BjE6U or watch at the bottom of this blog. Heroes in real life as well as in fiction encounter a variety of dragons they must slay. Some are internal, some...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Oct 6, 2017 | Checkmate Clans and Castles, River Passage, Songbirds are Free
A television series has inspired me to write another book based on my ancestors. I’ve become addicted to AMC’s series TURN, based on the book Washington’s Spies by Alexander Rose. When I fall in love with a book, a movie, a play or a television...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 20, 2017 | Authors and Books, Checkmate Clans and Castles, Cloak and Mirrors, Songbirds are Free
An author’s life and writing process is often misunderstood so when I read the synopsis of The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, I knew I had to read it. It is about an author that is writing an historical novel about the Jacobite rebellion of 1708. She chooses to write...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Checkmate Clans and Castles
O’Doherty’s Rebellion took place in Ulster, Ireland in 1608. Chances are you’ve never heard of it but if you are of Scot-Irish descent, this was a significant event in your ancestor’s life. In the decades before O’Doherty’s Rebellion, Queen Elizabeth I sent English...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Checkmate Clans and Castles
The odyssey into my family’s history has taken me to unexpected places, and anyone of Scot-Irish (or Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish) descent likely has ancestors that traveled a similar path. Scotland is only twenty miles or so across the Irish Sea from Ireland and...
