Happy New Book!
Happy New Book! Dear Friends, I start the year with a new novel, self-published on Amazon. On the homepage there are links to buying The Unquiet Land: A Novel of Medieval Ireland in paperback and Kindle versions. This book is set in the thirteenth century at a monastic community in central Ireland. The research led me from ancient annals to fairy stories and several times back to the landscape in Ireland. I’ve restarted the blog to describe the source materials, which are really fascinating, and to share some thoughts on the process of researching, writing and self-publishing a historical novel. Kindle Direct Publishing let me get the book out after a long and frustrating process of seeking an agent or publisher to handle it. I’m not a complete rube about the publishing business; this is my fourth novel and I have had four non-fiction works of history published. (Admittedly, some were by very small publishers—and in two cases they went out of business im