From October 18-24, 2018 book 1 of ‘A New Beginning’ will be on sale for $0.99. Book 2 is now available and completes the story. Click the title link below to take you to the Amazon product page.
A New Beginning Book 1. Building a Community
Author of YA Historical Fiction and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
From October 18-24, 2018 book 1 of ‘A New Beginning’ will be on sale for $0.99. Book 2 is now available and completes the story. Click the title link below to take you to the Amazon product page.
A New Beginning Book 1. Building a Community
Book 2 has gone live on Amazon. Paperback will be available in a couple of days. Hope you like this one as much as the first 🙂
I’m just about done. Should be ready to publish in a week, two at the most. Hope you all enjoy it. I loved the reviews and feedback from the first book!!!!
I finished it. My post-apocalyptic adventure is up for sale on Amazon.
From February 7-11 the ebook versions of Barbe’ and Nicholas will be discounted.
Make sure to leave me a review on Amazon after you read them. I like to know your thoughts..good or bad.
Although historical fiction is my favorite genre to read, post-apocalyptic fiction comes in at a close second. I wanted to try something new so I thought I’d try to write a post-apocalyptic story. Of course it’s going to take place in a school. Here’s a VERY rough draft of chapter 1. What do you think of the idea so far?
While doing research I came across some information on Samuel de Champlain that I didn’t know before. When he was 36 years old he finally married. His wife, Helene Boulle, was the daughter of the court regent under Louis the XIII, she was only 12 years old at the time.
It wasn’t unusual for girls to marry at 12, but the rules of the church were that the marriage could not be consummated until the girl was 14 unless special permission was given. It seems that de Champlain petitioned the church and asked for permission to consummate his marriage after the wedding. Permission was granted.
I can’t get over how creepy that seems. Today a 36 year old man with a 12 year old girl is called a pedophile. After the wedding Helene did go to Quebec for a short time, but the couple never had any children. I wonder if he somehow damaged her sleeping with her at such a young age. No wonder poor Helene ended up returning to France and living out the rest of her days in a convent.
I keep trying to do research…but I keep getting side tracked by a couple new databases I’ve found. Lots of genealogy records all in one place. I’ve added them to the genealogy link page also:
Immigration and census records
Library books-all on New France (but in French)