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 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...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Sep 19, 2017 | Checkmate Clans and Castles
While visiting my ancestral home in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, it is impossible to escape the images of the bloody hand. It appears in various forms, sometimes with lions, a fish, a crown or a knight’s helmet. It can be found on the side of buildings, on flags,...
