Book Of The Year Award

I'm am thrilled to announce that my novel The Regiment's Woman is now a finalist in the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards 2010.  Winners will be announced in June.

National heros

I am currently reading Bernard Cornwell's latest novel The Fort. As an author of historical novels I love studying history and Bernard does it, and writes about it, so well.  What intrigues me about history is discovering the truth behind what we've all been taught at school. How national heros are created from the smallest events and how the truth often shows us just how fallible they really were.

One of Cornwell's characters in The Fort is Americas great hero, Paul Revere and Cornwell does a wonderful job of portraying the weaknesses and fallibility of this man.  I can highly recommend this book.