David Blackmore
Book Five, 'The Road To Madrid' is now published and the series continues to be popular with all the books consistently scoring well over 4 stars. The general enthusiasm that readers have for the books is very gratifying and encouraging. Work on Book six is already underway.
I worked for the Royal Armouries Museum for 26 years, most of them as the Museum’s Registrar. Part of the creative team for the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and organised the move of the collection from The Tower to Leeds.
I am the author of four non-fiction books;
'Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars'.
'British Cavalry in the Mid-18th Century'.
'Destructive and Formidable, British Infantry Firepower, 1642 – 1765', the published version of the author’s PhD thesis from Nottingham Trent University.
'So Bloody a Day', the 16th Light Dragoons in the Waterloo Campaign.
I have written more articles and given more lectures than I can remember.
Blogs and short pieces can be found on my Wordpress blog 'Practical Military History'.
I appeared in Sean Bean’s Waterloo, teaching him how to use a sabre. Great fun, a lovely man.
I was a re-enactor for forty five years, including being Lord General of the Roundhead Association, and commanding the British Light Dragoons at Waterloo 200. I commanded B Troop, 16th Light Dragons from 2014 to 2019. I'm now definitely retired.
I get out on a horse two or three times a week, sometimes on Johnny, the inspiration for Lieutenant Roberts' horse.
David is proudly published by Brindle Books - https://www.brindlebooks.co.uk
Dr. William Lynes
William Lynes (born 1953) is a retired Stanford-trained physician, author, and speaker. He was born in San Diego and attended the University of California San Diego, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biology. Here, he met and married his wife, Patrice. Dr. Lynes attended the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, obtained his medical degree, and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society. A urologic internship and residency were completed at Stanford University Medical Center. He practiced general urology for 16 years at Kaiser Permanente in Riverside, California, and is board-certified by the American Board of Urology.
Since retiring in 2003, Dr. Lynes has written primarily fiction, including short stories and full-length novels. He is also an active speaker and advocates for physician burnout and suicide prevention.
He and his wife live in Temecula, California.
John Sanders
Once upon a time, there lived a boy who dreamed of riding dragons in the cold between on a faraway planet. He dreamed of living in spaceships and traveling to distant stars and battling terrible aliens and injustice with heroines and heroes of the common man. His reading was wide and varied with one common thread, most of the stories involve a strong heroine figure. To this end, he was inspired to write his own stories in time. I am John J. Sanders, and I write safety logic to tame and control fire dragons by day and write science and speculative fiction at night to entertain.
These are my stories, inspired by the work I do and the stories I grew up on. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did writing them.
Rosita Bird
I love children and have worked with children for over 20 years as a registered childminder and also at a nursery school. I am married with 2 children and 4 grandchildren. My childhood experience as well as my work experience has given me an insight into the minds of children. I love to write educational, fun, healthy eating books as well as other topics such as autism and mental health. Emma Tate now has been awarded 5 stars from readersfavorite.com Also The Elf's Secret, Jake is Different, and Sophie the Seagull Who was Afraid to Fly.
All my books are also available from myself through Rosita's Children's Books on Facebook.
My other hobbies are genealogy and history, during my research I discovered my family link to William Marwood the Lincolnshire Executioner. Together with newspaper clippings I decided to put it all together into a book called Memories of Rural Lincolnshire Families and the Gentleman Executioner and Cleethorpes, Grimsby Central Hall and Fishing Memories.