Still in the grip of family wide illness (my daughter has it today) it’s nice to have some good news, such as a new book being out 🙂 Today is the release day for By Honor Betrayed, and in Googling to find out where it was being sold I came across a new review of…
Chapter Two. The sun came up on Sessrumnir, and when the servants had thrown open the glistening doors it glanced through all the rooms and glittered in Freyja’s mirror. She sat before her glass admiring her beautiful face, rouging her lips with a paste of blood and honey. The yellow light shocked glints of red…
Comprising the rest of Chapter One Previously – Sceldwulf, having lived his three score years and ten, decided to stir up trouble with a story of the old gods, and then commit suicide. Now that everyone is feeling properly on edge, there comes a knocking at the door…
1st part available here: http://alexbeecroft.com/2011/05/since-there-is-no-lokaday/ in which the elderly Sceldwulf is telling his disapproving kinsfolk about how he once met two gods, when they were being hunted out of England by the new faith. Chapter 1, Part Two – in which Sceldwulf fulfils an old oath.
I will have to post this on a Thursday. Slightly embarrassing though it is, here is an excerpt of the first ever novel I actually finished. I hit on the cunning plan of telling lots of short stories – because I knew I could finish a short story – and then linking them together to…
Raw first draft excerpt of ‘Boys of Summer’, as written yesterday, complete with note for today:
In honour of the launch I’m re-posting lineae‘s gorgeous illustration for The Witch’s Boy, along with an excerpt of the scene she illustrated: EXCERPT Oswy stood, reluctantly, on the great gray boulder which balanced on the very top of Hammer-and-Anvil fell. Ahead of him the sun, glowing like a disk of dragon-gold, drove up into…
Peter, Josh and a senior Captain, Captain Joslyn have been sent to intercept a French three-decker believed to be trying to break the Hudson Bay treaty by capturing the bay for France, but they have come across a smaller scout ship on the way. *******************
