Hi lovelies! It gives me
great pleasure today to host Miriam Newman and her new book, “The Chronicles of
Alcinia”! For other stops on her Goddess
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fabulous giveaway!
The Chronicles of Alcinia
by Miriam Newman
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GENRE: Historical Fantasy
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BLURB:
Available
for the first time as an e-book bundle, the award-winning historical fantasy
series The Chronicles of Alcinia weaves a tale of war, history, passion and
romance. In Book I, The King’s
Daughter, Tarabenthia of Alcinia should grow to inherit her father’s throne by
the rocky cliffs of the sea. When
invaders seize her land, what will she sacrifice in the name of love? In Book II, Heart of the Earth, the Northern
Prince who has always wanted Tia saves her life. But will the price of his protection be too
high? And finally in Book III, Ice
Maiden, readers who wondered about the fate of Tia’s oldest son have their
answer. Sometimes heart-wrenching, always
powerful, this is a tale of heroes and the women who loved them.
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EXCERPT TWO:
There
is a place between death and life where the souls of our loved ones dwell,
trapped or perhaps assigned. I know, for
I have seen it.
There
was much left unsaid between us and perhaps that is why I first saw the shade
of my father. What can be said between a
King who barters his daughter and a daughter who seeks to overthrow her father? It was the same with us in that place as it
had been in life and the ghost of my father did not speak.
Mother
was there, too, a pale remnant of the Queen whose poor tortured heart failed
her on the night Tumagis defeated the men of Alcinia at Landsfel.
The
one person I did not see was Sergius. Of
course, my husband had not worshipped the Goddess of Alcinia but his own Omani
gods, yet I do not think that was the reason.
In my heart, I believe he had gone to Arianya. I was the wife of his middle years and the
one who gave him children. She was the
wife of his youth…his first love. Even
at his graveside, I had whispered to her spirit to care for him, and I think
that she came to Sergius Magistri.
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GUEST POST:
Who Inspired My Love for Books
One
of my earliest memories is of my mother reading me, “The Skeleton in
Armor.” A ghostly tale of a knight in
armor searching through his former castle for the lady love he lost through his
suicide, it wasn’t exactly Dick and Jane.
I remember the Wreck of the Hesperus, too—tragic shipwreck—and the
Assyrians coming down to their enemies like “wolves to the fold” in whatever
battle they were fighting in that ancient time.
There was no Bambi for me. Mom
went straight to the heart of the matter, enthralling with tales by the
literary masters. It was her own
passion, transmitted to me.
On
the other side of the family, I had my Irish grandmother—Nana. Along with an endless supply of cookies and a
magical canary named Petey who somehow reappeared every time he died—courtesy
of Woolworth’s, where you could buy canaries and budgies—Nana had books. Lots and lots of books. She had read them all so many times she never
needed to open one, but told me the myths and legends of her native land by
memory. It was magical. Thanks to Nana, I knew about Dick
Whittington, the poor boy made “thrice Lord Mayor of London” as a result of
renting out his cats during a rat infestation.
I am thinking that one is based in fact—remember the Bubonic
Plague? Such things gave me an abiding
interest in writing historical fiction based on actual events.
So I
don’t think it was any surprise to anyone when I started writing “books” as
soon as I could print. At first I
published poetry…and later, too, when marriage and five children didn’t leave
time for cranking out a 100,000 word novel.
But I always knew I would write one.
I did, beginning within days of my husband’s untimely death when I was
only 41. Against all advice, I took the
lump sum life insurance settlement and got on a plane to Ireland, where I
didn’t know a soul. In between sitting
in a sheep pasture and writing at a pub in Killarney where patrons kindly
bought me ale, I wrote my first book, The King’s Daughter. That book became the foundation novel for my
trilogy, The Chronicles of Alcinia. It
literally changed my life.
I
have not stopped writing since. My Muse
may leave me for long periods during which I suspect she is still over in
Ireland, but eventually she catches up or I go over and catch up with her, and
she gifts me with a new book. I am ever
so grateful, even if I did name her Persephone after the Queen of Hell. She is a harsh taskmistress. But I love her.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Beginning
a prize-winning career in poetry, Miriam
carried her love of the written word into seventeen novels to date. Her offerings range from contemporary and
historical fantasy to science fiction and historical fiction, always with a
romantic flavoring. Her original novel
The King’s Daughter—now part of The Chronicles of Alcinia—was written in
Ireland, her second home. When in the
U.S., she resides on a small horse farm in Pennsylvania with a collection of
rescue animals.
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