Article | Writers’ Life: When you have to juggle day jobs and chores with finding time to write and promote your writing – a day in the life of a writers couple Content and images for social media posts researched – check Engaged with social media followers – check The next social media posts scheduled – check Answered writing-related emails – check Watched the latest YouTube video on how to market our book(s) and what tools…
Continue readingBook Review: Malcolm Hollingdrake’s well-established, highly praised crime series, set in the gorgeous Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate. The books in the Harrogate Crime Series masterfully blend police procedural, investigation, and personal narratives. The beautiful town of Harrogate provides a backdrop for the threat posed by cold-blooded (serial) killers. All written in Malcolm Hollingdrake’s unique, sometimes poetic but always eloquent, writing style we’ve come to love. The Books Each of the fourteen books features Cyril…
Continue readingOr are you obsessed with being part of the herd? ‘Don’t wear bright colours,’ my aunt said to her husband. I was in my teens and wondered about that statement. Later I found out the reason and was stunned. Let me explain. My father’s brother, like his parents and siblings, was of Dutch nationality but born in Indonesia — then the Dutch Indies. History buffs will know the Dutch share a not-so-nice colonial past with…
Continue readingArticle | Bite-Size History: Examining the theories and counter-theories from May-June 1940 The “Conventional” Wisdom about the Battle of Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo The successful, relentless advance by German Army Group A under the direction of Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt, under operation Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), left over 400,000 Allied troops trapped at Dunkirk, their backs to the sea, forced to abandon all their equipment. With victory over “perfidious Albion” in his grasp, the Führer inexplicably…
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