Guests of the Month
Lee Gimenez
Lee Gimenez is the award-winning author of 20 books.
He is best known for his highly-acclaimed J.T. Ryan mystery thrillers.
Lee was a Finalist for the Author Academy Award, and many of his books were Featured Novels of the International Thriller Writers Association. They include The FBI MURDERS, KILLSHOT, TRIPWIRE, FIREBALL, CROSSFIRE, FBI CODE RED, The MEDIA MURDERS, SKYFLASH, and KILLING WEST.
Lee is a multi-year nominee for the Georgia Author of the Year Award and was a Finalist in the prestigious Terry Kay Prize for Fiction. He is also a U.S. Army veteran.
All of his books are available in the U.S. and Internationally.
Elisabeth Bailey
Elizabeth Bailey grew up in Africa with unconventional parents, where she loved reading and drama. On returning to England, she developed her career in acting, theatre directing and finally writing.
Elizabeth's latest venture is The Lady Fan Mystery series, published by Sapere Books. The novels feature amateur sleuth Lady Ottilia Fanshawe and a cast of family members including her husband and champion Lord Francis Fanshawe. She originally published Regency romances with Harlequin Mills & Boon and has many titles in her Brides by Chance Regency Adventures series, now also published by Sapere, as well as standalone Regency and Georgian romances.
Elizabeth also writes edgy women's fiction: Her dual time novel Fly The Wild Echoes, which deals with past lives, and For One More Tomorrow, where the ghost of the real Macbeth returns, protesting his villainous portrayal by Shakespeare. And she has published a romantic suspense novella, Silence of a Stranger.
Elizabeth lives in Sussex, England. She is still an inveterate reader with eclectic tastes and she spends her spare time helping other writers improve their craft.
Lynne Basham Tagawa
Lynne B. Tagawa is married, the mother of four sons, and grandma to six. The Tagawas live in Texas where she writes fiction and mentors homeschool moms.
She is especially inspired by the lives of great men and women of faith, and her historical fiction is filled with theological themes.
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