‘The Secret Writer’ Interview
I’m very grateful to Calum ‘The Secret Writer’ for featuring this interview: http://www.thesecretwriterblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/an-interview-with-author-jenny-barden.html (To win the giveaway you’ll need to visit the site!) Here’s the interview as it appears there – An Interview with the Author Jenny Barden and the Opportunity to Win a Copy of Her Latest Release, ‘The Lost Duchess’! Jenny Barden is an artist-turned-lawyer-turned-writer with a love of history...
Read More‘When Eden became Hell’
I’m very grateful to Sarah Johnson of ‘Reading the Past’ for hosting this essay and setting it out so beautifully. There’s a giveaway of The Lost Duchess on offer here too! http://readingthepast.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/when-eden-became-hell-vision-and-plight.html The following text is from this post: ‘When Eden became Hell’ – the vision and plight of the first ‘Lost’ Colonists of Roanoke, a guest post by Jenny Barden Jenny Barden, author of The Lost Duchess, is stopping by with an...
Read MoreGiveaway of ‘The Lost Duchess’!
To celebrate the upcoming launch of The Lost Duchess, and this blog as a recently added feature of my revamped website, I’ll be giving away a signed first edition copy of the Duchess to a winner chosen at random from amongst those who leave a comment here. If you’d like to have a chance of winning a copy, post paid anywhere in the world, then please leave a comment on this post before 11.00pm on Thursday 7 November. The winner will be announced here on Monday 11 November and notified by email. Now for...
Read MoreInterview for ‘A Writer of History’
I’m grateful to the most excellent author, Mary Tod, for featuring an interview here http://awriterofhistory.com/2013/10/30/jenny-barden-the-lost-duchess/ from which this is a short excerpt: After several weeks posting about either Unravelled or the historical fiction survey, I’m delighted to celebrate the return to ‘regular programming’ by interviewing Jenny Barden, author of Mistress of the Sea and her latest novel, The Lost Duchess. I first met Jenny during the run up to the 2012 Historical Novel...
Read MoreRoanoke Island – 1587 and Now
My latest post on the English Historical Fiction Authors site might be of interest to anyone curious to know more about the first attempt to establish an English settlement in America – the ill-fated ‘Lost Colony’ of Roanoke: http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/roanoke-island-1587-and-now.html *** When America’s first English colonists arrived at Roanoke Island in 1587 they expected to find a land of bounty, with a benign climate, sparsely populated by gentle savages. Arthur...
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