I have created this website (with considerable mental effort as IT is not my thing) in order to make what I have written available for everyone. I have found it well-nigh impossible to find an editor, and self-publishing lacks distribution so I’m trying this. I already covered the cost of my first book “After the Siesta” and the Spanish version “El Despertar“, both published via Lightning Source, so that’s no problem.
I offer you some short stories and a couple of poems as well as a sample of my first book. If you subscribe, I’ll give you links to more stuff and let you know when I publish.
I also have a blog and welcome all kinds of comments!
I have written two new books, together called “Saxon Blood Royal“, the first part is “The Uncrowned King” and the second “The Queen’s Legacy“. I hope to publish the first soon. At the moment, I’m translating it into Spanish.
What are they about?
I’ll give you an idea.
The last Saxon king of England who descended directly from Alfred the Great was King Edmund Ironside. After arduous battles with the Danes, a deal was made to divide England between Saxons and Danes for peace. Unfortunately, King Edmund was killed in suspicious circumstances, and the Danish king, Canute, became king of all England.
King Edmund had two small sons, Edmund and Edward, the latter born posthumously. They were exiled and taken to Norway. Edmund’s father, King Ethelred, had married twice, first to a Saxon woman, Edmund’s mother, and secondly to a Norman, Emma of Normandy. One of Emma’s sons, King Edward the Confessor, recovered the throne from the Danes but had no heir. He searched for his half-brother’s sons and finally found them in Hungary. He sent his trusted friend, Bishop Ealdred, to meet them and inform him of their qualities as possible successors but Edmund had been killed in battle so only Edward was left.
Our story begins before 1066 when King Edward the Confessor invites his nephew, Edward Atherling the Exile, to return to England and become his heir. However, there are other pretenders. The Godwin family have practically governed England for years and seek recognition, and the Norman connection is also waiting to pounce.