New website just launched! I'm quite pleased with it :)
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Celebrating Easter with pre-Christian content I guess :)) #vikingsky #medievalsky
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My publisher, Vinci Books, just shared with me that for every 100 people who pick up book one of my Hasting series, 75 make it to the end of book 5. I just looked this up, and that's a higher read-through rate than Harry Potter!!! Vikings rule!
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Day 15 of reading excerpts from my Viking historical fiction novels. Someone died in this one.
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Shieldmaidens and cursed swords: the Saga of Hervor and Heidrek #norsesky #vikingsky
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Bet you didn’t know this about tweezers!
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Checking out the “Viking” exhibit at the Musée Dobrée.
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Day 14 of reading to you my Viking historical fiction novels. Today Hasting is trying to get his father’s sword back from Hagar. Enjoy!
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Day 13 of reading you short excerpts from my Viking historical fiction novels. Today we meet our first character who isn’t what he or she appears to be.
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Day 12 of reading you short excerpts from my Viking historical fiction novels. Today I’m joined by a special guest!
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Day 11 of reading short excerpts from my Viking historical fiction novels. Today we’ll look at the Bretons, and more specifically the Vennetes.
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It’s day 10 of reading to you short excerpts from my Viking historical fiction novels. This one Hasting gets shot in the a$$ 😬😬😂
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My wife and I were on Valhalla Conversations podcast to talk about our children’s book we made about the Viking Age. You get to hear from my better half.
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Well hello there. Today, day 9, I read to you a short passage where my Viking characters encounter a fortified Frankish bridge.
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Day 8 of reading to you short excerpts from my novels. I hope you’re enjoying this as much as I am.
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Day seven of reading your short excerpts from my books. Enjoy!
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Day 6 of reading you excerpts from my novels. This one has awesome music on Instagram, but it wouldn’t let me keep it for posting elsewhere. The passage holds its own, though.
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Never go full Viking!
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Day five of reading short excerpts from my novels about the Vikings in France.
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Day 4 of reading excerpts from my historical fiction novels about the Vikings in France.
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Day three of reading short passages from my books.
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On the advice of some friends, I shall endeavor to bring you one short reading per day from my novels, with little tidbits of information about the context/history. #writingcommunity #booksky #vikingsky #medievalsky
The historical Viking Hasting may be the titular character of my series The Saga of Hasting the Avenger, but he’s also a figure that was heavily mythologized by 19th-century historians:
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Was the sovereign Kingdom of Brittany a historical reality or a masterpiece of medieval propaganda? Join author and historian C.J. Adrien as he holds the grand, romanticized 19th-century narratives of Breton independence up to the light.
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Remember that time the Bretons allied with the Vikings, and they killed Robert the Strong? Tumultuous times...
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I just released a popular history of Early Medieval Brittany, and I think you should get it ;)
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How emotional were the Vikings? I explore this question and how to write compelling medieval characters in my latest Substack post.
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