![]() ![]() ![]() Weir is a prolific and accomplished biographer, with an inexhaustible passion for history that has its origins in her early teenage years. At last, the significance of this enigmatic woman has been acknowledged by historian Alison Weir in her latest biography, Elizabeth of York: a Tudor Queen and Her World. Yet Elizabeth was a popular consort who wielded subtle power, and at times exercised considerable influence at court. After her death, Elizabeth’s son Henry VIII and her grandson Edward VI would do the same. Had royal women born in fifteenth century England been granted equal succession rights to their male counterparts, a discrimination rectified as recently as 2011, then Elizabeth of York (1466-1503), eldest child of Edward IV, would have been crowned Elizabeth I decades before her granddaughter became ‘The Virgin Queen’.Īs it was, she looked on dutifully as first her brother, and then her uncle and finally her husband occupied the throne during her lifetime. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret- the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. ![]() "A timely and riveting tale." -Ray Stoeve, author of Between Perfect and Real "A chimera of horror, romance, and something stranger." -Rose Szabo, author of What Big Teeth "Hands down the best YA horror book I've read."-Aden Polydoros, author of The City Beautiful "A defining voice of our generation." -H.E. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Actor and musician Jimmy Wong responded with this parody song: " 'Ching Chong,' it means 'I love you.' ")Īnd comedian Stephen Colbert received flak this past March when a staffer tweeted, "I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," from the show's account. In 2011, University of California, Los Angeles student Alexandra Wallace posted a YouTube video where she ranted about Asian students using cellphones in the library. I was like, really? I didn't know that," O'Donnell said after.) Some people have told me it's as bad as the N-word. ("So apparently 'ching-chong,' unbeknownst to me, is a very offensive way to make fun, quote-unquote, or mock, Asian accents. ![]() ("Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching chong yang, wah, ah soh,' " he said in a TV interview.) Rosie O'Donnell said it in 2006 when imagining a Chinese newscast of a drunken Danny DeVito. In 2003, Shaquille O'Neal tossed the phrase out when referring to Yao Ming. Every few years - or if we're considering more recent history, every few months - we hear in the news of someone referring to a person of Asian descent with the age-old phrase "Ching Chong." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My first two books, Winter of the Passion Flower, and Holiday Affair were coincidentally published on the same day in March 2012, by two different publishers. I was lucky to pick up contracts for my first books. I write Regency-era historical romance and romantic comedy.ĪNNIE SEATON: In 2011, I decided it was time to follow my dream and retired from my position as a high school principal. When was your first book published? How many books since? What is your genre/genres?ĪNNE GRACIE: First book in 1999, 21 books since.The wealth of experience at the table makes for interesting insights and I invite you to choose your favourite drink and come sit with us for a while.Īnne Gracie, Annie Seaton and Anna Jacobs Please join in welcoming Anne Gracie, Annie Seaton, and Anna Jacobs. ![]() Welcome to a different Tasting Table, a lovely gathering of three successful authors to share experiences from their careers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She manages to retain her purity despite plenty of temptation, she's loyal and faithful as a servant, and she longs to tell the family about Jesus. Hadassah is the one bright spark in a corrupt and greedy household. ![]() To be fair to the author, the plot is a good idea. Meanwhile Atretes, hero of the second chapter, becomes a gladiator. ![]() Hadassah, the Jewish Christian girl who loses her family in the fall of Jerusalem, is sold as a slave: she ends up as maid to the rich and pampered Lady Julia. At least there was some plot from the third chapter onwards. My friend assured me the book got better, and I read many raving reviews at Amazon USA, so I kept going. I was, as they say in the USA, 'grossed out'. I skimmed as much as I could, then found the second chapter every bit as bad: this time it focussed on a battle in Germany, with yet more gratuitous violence. A horrific background, and unfortunately the author decided to let us in on scenes of carnage and destruction, with gruesomely sickening detail. It takes place in Jerusalem, during its destruction in the 1st century. ![]() Indeed, I nearly gave up after the first chapter. She writes Christian historical fiction, and a friend lent it to me, along with the two sequels, saying she thought I would like it. This is the first novel I've read by Francine Rivers. ![]() |