Many thanks to Anne and everyone in the Historical Novel Society’s author interviews team for doing this Q&A with me.
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In chapter 33 of Avarice of Empire, Alec Innes has an important task to perform in Canterbury and walks into town from the cavalry barracks.
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Review of Avarice of Empire, titled “Brilliantly articulated and addictive reading!”
Review of Avarice of Empire, titled “Extraordinary narrative of an extraordinary life.”
Love these reviews of Avarice of Empire!
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Reading from the prologue to Avarice of Empire, in which children from a local school visit Canterbury Cathedral and become intrigued by the memorial to Captain Charles Agnew of the 16th Lancers.
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Today is the 152nd anniversary of the death of Charles Agnew “by the hand of an assassin” in Egypt on 22nd March 1873, and I’ve been commemorating the day at Canterbury Cathedral where he’s memorialised in the south aisle.
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Some of the wonderful friends and colleagues who came along to Blackwell’s University Bookshop in Exeter earlier today to support my first ‘Avarice of Empire’ book signing event. #historicalfiction #booksky #hfchitchat #histbookchat #blackwells
Purple crocus peeking through wrought iron fence
Spring is almost official! Bring on the creative energy and new beginnings ✨🌷✨
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Stacks of copies of Avarice of Empire by C.Q. Turnstone
I’ve been looking forward to doing this for a very long time… signing copies of Avarice of Empire to send out to the many people who helped during the research process or offered feedback on the first full draft.
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Avarice of Empire on display in the fiction section at Blackwell’s University Bookshop in Exeter.
Unashamedly proud and excited to see Avarice of Empire on a shelf in a bookshop for the first time! Here it is, in splendid company, at Blackwell’s in Exeter where I’ll be doing a book signing next Tuesday.
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🎉 PUBLICATION DAY! 🎉
After nearly 10 years since first becoming acquainted with the name Charles Agnew, today I’m excited and incredibly proud to finally be able to share his story and celebrate the publication of my debut novel.
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Very excited to be doing an author event on Sunday, January 26, at 2 pm, at the Foster City Library, 1000 East Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City. I’d love to see some friendly faces if you are in the area!
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In the brainstorming phase of a new WIP, and whenever I need to quiet my mind and get inspired, nature is always the answer!
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So honored that WHEN YOU WRITE BACK, my dual-timeline MG novel, is the 2025 winner of the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award!
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Glad you're here, too! I'm hoping we can reconnect with others from #HFChitChat.
So glad I timed my dive back into editing with a sweltering heat wave and loud neighborhood construction.
Tomorrow will be better right? Right???
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![[Papà] is such a stick in the mud whenever I try to find myself a new mother. He’ll tell me again about how swans mate for life, and his mate is dead, and he will mourn her FOREVER. I looked it up once and showed him from one of his own books that swans will, in fact, find new mates if their first one dies, but he insisted he’s not That Type of Swan.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ulvxjtcpmzrbnoufwa3eh5ti/bafkreifmgg4zvjiakd2oavuoxkusoncchbh2oirxaq27pxzqvre5bwoacm)
[Papà] is such a stick in the mud whenever I try to find myself a new mother. He’ll tell me again about how swans mate for life, and his mate is dead, and he will mourn her FOREVER. I looked it up once and showed him from one of his own books that swans will, in fact, find new mates if their first one dies, but he insisted he’s not That Type of Swan.
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image text: In the evenings, Raymond has been unusually chatty, and I listen whilst he expounds on, say, the comparative visual merits of every butterfly known to inhabit southern England—in alphabetical order, which pleases me. And I don’t mind listening. In fact, I find it a soothing accompaniment to my unravelling and untangling the black wool, the wool still in my bag from Mauritz’s socks...
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It’s snowing and I’m writing.
It’s a good morning.
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Find yourself a coffee shop that serves beautiful poetry with your caffeine.
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