Maggie Blackbird

Romancing Canada's Indigenous People

Today, author Stephen D. Owen is guesting. He’s talking about his latest release Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice, book one in the Iceni series, a historical fiction novel. Don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway. “The revolt of Queen Boudica and the Iceni against the might of Rome has echoed down the centuries. Nearly 2000 …

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Over the Christmas holidays, I finished another book I couldn’t find time for, a book that has sat in my TBR pile for too long. Because I am from an area rich in history about the fur trade, I could not resist reading this one since I am always on the hunt for non-fiction or …

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I’ve been knee-deep in non-fiction for the past couple of months.  The other day I downloaded some fiction…finally.  How I’ve missed reading fiction–especially historical fiction.  I did a previous post about Sue Harrison‘s Ivory Carver Trilogy.  I’m finally starting her Storyteller Trilogy. Here are the blurbs for each story: Song of the River:  Eighty centuries …

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I’m taking a wee break before starting Sue Harrison‘s Storyteller Trilogy, because something else caught my eye while I was browsing through Kobo the other day.  Actually, two books caught my eye.  The first is what’s currently in my e-reader, Waterlily, by the late Ella Cara Deloria. Written in the early 1940s and published well …

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I’m starting another trilogy, this one by Sue Harrison.  She has two trilogies available, one being the Ivory Carver and the other The Storyteller.  I’m knee deep in Mother Earth, Father Sky, the first book in the Ivory Carver trilogy. So far this is an amazing read.  Ms. Harrison breathes life into all of her …

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