Shortlisted: Best Historical Read
Mistress of the Sea has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Historical Read’ category for the 2012 Festival of Romance Reader Awards.Editors’ Choice Review
“A captivating and well researched tale of love, duty, and the consequences of actions, set against a vividly described New World’ “from the ‘Editors’ Choice’ review of Mistress of the Sea in the Historical Novels Review, November 2012
HNSLondon12
On 30 September I led a workshop on ‘Making the Breakthrough’ with Patricia Bracewell and Simon Scarrow at the London Conference of the Historical Novel Society (which I also co-ordinated!):
http://www.patriciabracewell.
Number 6 in Waterstones’ Chart!
After a lightening-fast tour of the SW, involving talks at the Devon & Exeter Institution, Plymouth Central Library and Plymouth Museum, Mistress of the Sea reached bestseller rank #6 on Saturday, 15th September 2012, at Waterstones Plymouth, New George Street, following her first Waterstones signing.
Launch of Mistress of the Sea
Mistress of the Sea was launched in style at Daunt Books, Marylebone, on 30 August 2012.
There’s a lovely piece about the occasion by Lorna Fergusson here:
http://literascribe.blogspot.
FIRST SIGNING
My first signing of Mistress of the Sea in print aboard the Golden Hinde near London Bridge on Friday 10 August 2012
RNA Conference, Penrith
On Sunday 15 July I gave a talk on ‘Tracing the Tudors – researching a romantic adventure’ at the annual Conference of the Romantic Novelists’ Association in Penrith.
There’s a great blog about it from Deborah Swift here: http://www.deborahswift.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/tracing-tudors-jenny-barden-talks-at.html
Get Writing 2012
In February 2012 I gave a talk on ‘Digging Deep’ at the Get Writing Conference hosted by the Verulam Writers’ Circle at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield
Shortlistings
Extracts from early drafts of Mistress of the Sea have been shortlisted for two national awards: The Willesden Herald International Short Story Award and the Short Story Radio First Chapter Award.
(In the picture I’m with Rana Dasgupta, the adjudicator for the WHI Short Story Award at the Costa, Piccadilly, with (from left to right) Claudia Boers, Margot Taylor, Jill Widner and Lane Ashfeldt of Pulp.Net)
Festival of Romance Awards
In October 2011 I acted as Moderator for the inaugural Festival of Romance Reader Awards. There’s a piece about that experience here:
Gaining insight through judging – moderating the Festival of Romance Reader Awards
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