Just a quick post to say that along with lots of other brilliant bargains, Labyrinth, Blessed Isle and The Crimson Outlaw are available for 99c in Riptide’s end of year sale. Scoop ’em up for cheap while you can ;)* *if you want them and don’t already have them, of course. I don’t want to…
Excerpt from Blessed Isle by Alex Beecroft 1790 British Age of Sail For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he’s ever worked for….
How funny. The last review I had on this loved Garnet but thought Harry was a bit pompous. This reviewer loves Harry but thinks Garnet is a bit of a pest. I’m not at all surprised – the pair of them are such opposites it’s hard to like them both. I do, but then I’m…
Firstly, thank you to Kaetrin for this lovely review of Blessed Isle http://www.kaetrinsmusings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/blessed-isle-by-alex-beecroft.html Their story is full of adventure on the high seas, personal sacrifice and joyful love, in a time when they could not be open about it, where, if caught, they would face death by hanging. It was bitter that they could…
This week I have mostly been… ill. It started off on Saturday, which was unfortunately also the day of this year’s Straw Bear festival. I was in that half way state where you know you’re ill but you don’t yet know what it’s going to be when it’s fully manifested itself. So I dressed for…
Heh, after writing that blog post about how to add more female characters to your novels, I immediately started worrying if I was a classic case of ‘do what I say, not what I do.’ With some relief I thought of Lady Farrant in False Colors, Emily in Captain’s Surrender, Krissy, Caroline and Alec’s mum…
I’ve always felt I was eminently qualified for the position of absent minded professor, and now I can’t remember whether it’s day 3 or 4 of the Blessed Isle tour. I do remember that I’m over here on the Scarf Princess’s blog, talking about why there’s nothing wrong with a man being a bit effeminate…
The blog tour continues, as I talk about why I wrote Blessed Isle, as an example of the kind of love story that history made it impossible to tell. http://pantsoffreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/guest-post-giveaway-story-out-of.html
Today I’m at Elisa Rolle’s http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1862471.html although in the event of Livejournal being down, which it seems to be very often at the moment, I’m also on her mirror account at Dreamwidth http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3415887.html And I have another beautiful review to mention today. This one from On Top Down Under makes me feel that special authorial…
Gosh, this is unlike me, I’m blogging twice in one day! Here I am also at the Cup o Porn blog, asking “what’s in a name?” http://cupoporn.net/2013/01/01/tuesday-tangent-with-alex-beecroft