If you have ever been swept away by a story where love fights to survive, where a heroine refuses to give in, and where the past feels achingly close to your heart, then this space is for you. Right now I am deep in the Wars of the Roses, following Alice Neville and Richard, Earl of Warwick, through the Blood of the Bear series. If you have just finished The Kingmaker's Spy, welcome. You are exactly where you need to be. Join 700+ readers who believe that courage is not just in grand gestures but in the quiet choices we make every day. Every week I send you a letter. Inside you will find the real history behind my stories, glimpses of what I am writing next, sneak peeks, special promotions, and occasionally a short story just for you. Some weeks it is a reflection or a piece of my own journey as a writer and a woman. These are not newsletters. They are letters, the kind I would write to a friend. The Shadow Years, the prequel to the Blood of the Bear series, is coming soon. Subscribers receive it first, for free. If you are here for the history, stay for the heart. I would be honoured to have you. Augusta
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Dear Reader, After a busy few days, I’m back from the Bournemouth Writing Festival—and what a whirlwind it was!
I'll admit... I didn’t exactly clean the house or get much writing done this weekend (unless you count one very determined hour), but it was worth it for all the inspiration. 📚 Book Recommendation: The Resistance Girl by Alice G. May 🎁 Next Week: A Surprise! Thanks, as always, for being part of this journey through stories and history. Warmly, 📱 Come Say Hello on Instagram or Facebook I've revamped my social media (starting with Instagram and Facebook) and will be sharing various daily topics like monthly quizzes, weekly historical facts, behind-the-scenes peeks at my books, and Fun Friday posts to start your weekend with a smile. If you’re on Instagram or Facebook, I’d love to connect with you there! 👉 Follow me on Instagram |
Whispers: Come for the history, stay for the love that dares and the secrets that burn.
If you have ever been swept away by a story where love fights to survive, where a heroine refuses to give in, and where the past feels achingly close to your heart, then this space is for you. Right now I am deep in the Wars of the Roses, following Alice Neville and Richard, Earl of Warwick, through the Blood of the Bear series. If you have just finished The Kingmaker's Spy, welcome. You are exactly where you need to be. Join 700+ readers who believe that courage is not just in grand gestures but in the quiet choices we make every day. Every week I send you a letter. Inside you will find the real history behind my stories, glimpses of what I am writing next, sneak peeks, special promotions, and occasionally a short story just for you. Some weeks it is a reflection or a piece of my own journey as a writer and a woman. These are not newsletters. They are letters, the kind I would write to a friend. The Shadow Years, the prequel to the Blood of the Bear series, is coming soon. Subscribers receive it first, for free. If you are here for the history, stay for the heart. I would be honoured to have you. Augusta
Dear Reader I have news, and for once it is not from the fifteenth century. From this month, I have rearranged my life so that more of my week belongs to the writing desk. Fewer of the hours that belong to everything else, more of the ones with the candle lit, the research books stacked too high, and the dog asleep against my feet. It took me a long while to make this choice, and in the end the second Blood of the Bear book made it for me. It is so close to finished that I can hear it asking...
Dear Reader It is a long bank holiday weekend here in the UK, the kind where you make a second cup of tea and mean to do something productive and then do not. Actually the weather is going to be really nice so ideal to sit in the garden or on the beach with a new book. So, I have made The Kingmaker's Spy free until Monday. This is the one set in Calais in 1457, when Warwick's garrison was bleeding men to the French and someone inside his own command was feeding the secrets out. Alice was the...
Dear Reader, The book is finished now and has gone out to my advance readers. I always find this part a little frightening. I have lived with this story for months. It was never meant to be more than a single book, and now it has become something much larger. Letting it go, even in stages, is not as easy as I pretend it is. The Kingmaker’s Spy launches in three weeks. And before that happens, there is something I want to tell you: I keep coming back to a detail most people forget. Not the...