This thread is for authors in the Historical Fiction Genre to be able to meet and discuss topics and issues faced in this genre. If you are in this genre and you do not see your name listed, please comment below and tag me in it. Link to the Historical Fiction Member Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xit4uXpX5x8MjCpfnUdP__ar8KnnkkgpAtGpmV89hWo/edit?usp=sharing ----------- @Jessica James @Sophie Perinot @Rebecca Phillips @Gary Olive @Sam Smith @Kate Wiseman @Keith Wood @Christopher Tradgett @Charlotte Fox @Fabian Foley @Margaret Moxom

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AUTHORS listed below as it takes me a full year to read and select from the hundreds and hundreds of books sent to me by authors, publishers, publishers and more for consideration for their book or books to be selected for a full year of our Passport to Reading Around the World. Since our beginning with six complete strangers coming to join my original chapter of my book club, The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas in 2000, we have evolved to be one of the largest International Book Clubs in the World. We rebranded our name for our 25th Anniversary to Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love as it was time authors and readers to get serious about our reading. We are on a mission and have been the get go to promote authors, books, literacy and reading around the world. I think BIG and DREAM that one day our world through the process of reading become the world we want to live and be in, We have joined hands around the globe to build bridges of understanding that reading is important, that we can learn about other peoples, cultures, and mindsets to find that we are more alike than we have differences. Don't judge a book by it's cover, read it then share those stories to have conversations. We are life-long learners and now we have "gone back to school", our one stop shop site of SKOOL! JOIN TODAY and don't forget to JOIN on Facebook our Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love group page and SUBSCRIBE to the Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love YouTube Channel as I will be reporting there as we transition to this site SKOOL! I cannot thank my webmaster, Paul Roberson enough and he is creating video content to learn all our pages and Authors, you are going to be amazed on how much information we can send our around the world on your books. We welcome all readers, all book groups, podcasters, we truly want to be a one shop shop of connecting our hands and hearts to what we all know can change the world. Books that keep on giving now share, share, share and important to join our Facebook and YouTube Channel as we need a way to get all the information we have been working on this past year to all of you!

Our family wrote a children's book about our dogs and how they came to us and how they got their names. We would love to hear stories about your dogs and how they got their names. Rocky was named after Rocky Road Ice Cream and Lucky was named because it was our "Lucky Day" when he found us,

Authors at a paid book fair are a special breed of optimists. They pay for a table, pay for the travel, pay for coffee to stay awake, and then spend the day convincing strangers to buy a book they already spent years writing. If they break even, it's called success. If they sell out, it's called a miracle. Three times a year, I attend book fairs that don't charge authors for a stand. On June 7, I had a book stand at the Fismes festival “L’amour fait livre” -- this theme was based on a paronomasia/pun “L’amour fait vivre” (Love keeps us alive). Two fellow authors visited my stand and exchanged their autographed books for mine; we agreed to stay in touch, which was one of the highlights of the day. I did not sell a single book in the afternoon (for the first time 🙃). Another author joked, “How could you? You were surrounded by teenagers trying to practise their English!” He was right. Six teenagers stayed at my stand for several hours (my legs felt exhausted afterwards). Four of them left only when their mothers came to pick them up, while one politely excused herself after receiving a phone call. A 19-year-old male student was the last to leave at around five o’clock; his father, who had come to tell him it was time to go home, was grateful and thanked me generously for spending time with him. These six teenagers talked and listened without checking their phones (except when I requested one of them to show me his Australian friend in Queensland, where I came from) or fidgeting; they were polite and interacted with interest. It was worth it. I collected smiles, conversations, and enough human connection to almost pay for my petrol. Fismes “City of Coronations” is a small town in the Marne department, France, about 30 km west of Reims, which is famous for its cathedral, Champagne houses, and its role in French royal history.

Finally got The Broken Mask of the Ruined Girl published on Amazon!!