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maryanneyarde.bsky.social 💙📚📜 @maryanneyarde.bsky.social · 7d

❀༻ Book of the Day ༺❀
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✮ ( ¸.•´✶ Marguerite: Hell Hath No Fury:
The Story of Marguerite of Anjou
By Judith Arnopp *´¨✫)

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#HistoricalFiction #bookoftheday #MustRead
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Marcia Clayton @marciaclayton.bsky.social · Sep 1

💙📚💙 #booksky History, mystery and romance! The Hartford Manor Series is a heart-warming 19th-century family saga set in Victorian Devon.
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#historicalfiction #Victorian

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 17h

Historical fiction & history @cathiedunn
Check out The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheMonth:

✨Storks in a Blue Sky by Carol Anne Dobson✨

Discover a sweeping romantic adventure that takes you from the Devon moors to Alsace

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 19h

Ken Stark
@kenstark.bsky.social

The game has begun. Don’t blink. Don’t breathe. They’re coming.

Read GAIA'S GAME
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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 19h

Juliane Weber
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#HistoricalFiction in 19th century #Ireland…

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#KindleUnlimited #HistoricalRomance #series #histfic #GreatFamine

Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 19h

Yarde Book Reviews & Book Promotion
@maryanneyarde
❀༻ Book of the Day ༺❀

✶ Murder on West Main:
A South Shore Mystery
By I. M. Foster *´

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 20h

Historical fiction & history @cathiedunn
Welcome to Day 2 of our blog tour for

༻*·The Boat on the Lake of Regret·*༺
by Christy Matheson!

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#FairyTaleRetelling #Medieval
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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 20h

From the archives: The English Manor Part 1: The Land. Apparently the average manor contained one village and was separated from the next manor by a broad stretch of woods or wasteland. Sometimes two manors split the same village in two. buff.ly/3Dw5TSb

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 20h

Did Harold die from an Arrow in the Eye? Recent evidences shows a row of holes next to the second figure’s eye, that looks suspiciously like stitches that have been removed! An arrow? buff.ly/kHP6nFr

Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 20h

A Ha’penny Will Do, Guest Post by @ahuntingford9: WORLD WAR 1 ON THE HOME FRONT. Reality started to kick in. Prices of food rose and lists of casualties emerged, and the promised victory suddenly didn’t seem so certain anymore. historicalfictionblog.com/a-hapenny-wi...

Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

The Most Unusual Graves at Père Lachaise: From Fertility Legends to A Man Holding His Wife’s Face lifeinruralfrance.com/unusual-grav...?

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Char Newcomb
@charnewcomb.bsky.social

How about a retelling of the Robin Hood legend? Check out my new novel ROGUE! mybook.to/RogueTales

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

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Kathleen Harryman
@kathleenh-author.bsky.social

#BookReview "An enthralling romantic tale that’s sure to sweep you off your feet. "

A Nightingale's Last Song: mybook.to/Nightingales

The Promise: buff.ly/3hvTv5r

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Reduced to $9.95 (or better) with most retailers on #Audio! Listen to events leading up to the Norman Conquest from Canute to Harold Godwineson in THE LAST GREAT SAXON EARLS: buff.ly/3BwnbIu

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Stark
@kenstark.bsky.social

That child was all she cared about in the world. She would find her, or die trying.

STAGE 3: ALPHA
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FREE on KU

Also on #audiobook

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Yarde Book Reviews & Book Promotion
@maryanneyarde
Politics, Friendship, or Greed? Which of these was the true author of the Confederate conspiracy to decapitate the Union?

´✶ The Absolution of Mars
By T F Troy *´¨✫)

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Historical fiction & history @cathiedunn
Check out The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheWeek:

❄️Cold Blows the Wind by Catherine Meyrick❄️

Discover a compelling tale of brave new beginnings, hardship, and love in 19th-century Tasmania!

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@cameyrick1

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Judith Arnopp 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@JudithArnopp

'Tudor Historical Fiction just as I like it! - Book Review

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#HistoricalFiction #Tudors #HenryVIII

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Juliane Weber
@Writer_JW

#HistoricalFiction in 19th century #Ireland…

lnk.bio/ZeRo

#KindleUnlimited #HistoricalRomance #series #histfic #GreatFamine

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Schultz
@wordrefiner

Hello friends. I have an immediate opening for proofreading. If you have a manuscript that you think is ready to publish, I will provide a free estimate of proofreading.
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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Gemma Lawrence
@TudorTweep

#NewRelease!

Trusted to defend her son's empire, Eleanor of Aquitaine faces challenges not only from enemies but from her own kin, as her youngest son plots to steal the throne of his brother

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$4.99

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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 6d

#selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #authors inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Add page breaks to mark ebook’s chapters

Readers of paper books have come to expect that a new chapter begins on a new page, even if that means blank white space at the bottom of the page where the last chapter ended. As all of us live in…

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Anna Belfrage @abelfrageauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I have been MIA for a while now - lots of work, writing frantically to finish my WIP, and a tendency to discover other rabbitholes... Ergo, my latest post is all about ears, naval heroes and a disatrous naval battle...
www.annabelfrage.com/2025/10/09/t...

The consequences of Jenkin's ear - the story of a naval battle - Anna Belfrage

Hands up those of you who’ve heard of the Battle of Cartagena de las Indias. Hmm, very few, apparently. Now, I had heard of this battle before, because as a child I grew up in Colombia, and on several...

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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 1d

Yarde Reviews & Book Promotion: Excerpt from The Agincourt King: THE FRENCH ARCHBISHOP ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH KING HENRY as told by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester buff.ly/3VOxgfJ /
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J.P. Reedman, Author @jpreedman.bsky.social · 1d

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WARS OF THE ROSES FICTION. THE OTHER MARGARET BEAUFORT. Margaret is daughter of Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. She falls into despair when he is slain at St Alban's & her brother Henry & husband Humphrey are badly wounded. #KindleUnlimited #BookSky📚📚💙

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