Maggie Secara
Maggie Secara is a technical writer by trade, which just proves that you can, too, make a living with a Masters in English. A not-quite-native of California, she has traveled in Great Britain and Ireland, but not nearly as many places as she’d like to. Maggie started writing poetry at the tender age of 8, but began her story-telling adventures sometime in junior high school with a Robin Hood saga she promises never to reveal. Her long interest in history and many years of involvement in the Renaissance Pleasure Faire and Society for Creative Anachronism have all contributed to her writing, in more ways than one! Initially a handbook for members of her guild at the Faire, A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 was established as a website in 1998, and finally released in book form in 2008. A second edition is being prepared for release in autumn, 2011. Her love of history and heroics have culminated in a series of fantasy novels, coming soon to a Faerie world near you. She and JimDear, her very understanding husband, live with their cats in cozy suburban splendor in North Hollywood, California.
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The Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603)
The Compendium of Common Knowledge (1558-1603) opens a door into ordinary lives--both common and noble--in the England of Shakespeare and Good Queen Bess. In this little book you'll find notes on Elizabethan food, occupations, games, and pastimes, also religion, manners, attitudes, and education-the little details that make up daily life, that everyone knows without thinking. The Compendium, used on-line by Renaissance fairs and schools all over the world, provides a unique reference for writers, students, actors, re-enactors, and Elizabethan enthusiasts of all kinds.
Available at Amazon.com
Available at Amazon.com
Molly September
What really happened to Rafe September? Everyone in Port Royal claims he was a thief and a pirate, but his daughter Molly knows that isn’t so. Newly returned from school abroad, Molly just wants to fall in love, but her family has her future and her marriage already planned. Taking her life and honor in her hands, she runs from an arranged marriage into dangerous waters in the company of Dick Prentiss, one of the men who knew her father best. Together they sail the seas of the Spanish Main in search of the truth and freedom, pursued by Molly’s jilted bridegroom, a man with the power to have them both arrested and hanged. The real peril? Prentiss already knows the true story of Rafe’s death, and he’ll do anything to protect the girl he loves from finding out.
Set against the swashbuckling backdrop of the Golden Age of Piracy. Romantic, dramatic, and even funny, Molly September evokes the great pirate movies of the past: The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, and The Spanish Main.
In other words, it's more than a romance—it's an adventure!
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Set against the swashbuckling backdrop of the Golden Age of Piracy. Romantic, dramatic, and even funny, Molly September evokes the great pirate movies of the past: The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, and The Spanish Main.
In other words, it's more than a romance—it's an adventure!
Amazon.com Kindle
Barnes&Noble Nook
Sony Store Sony Reader
Apple Store iPad
Download a pdf sample chapter of Molly September
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