Feb. ’13 FREE BOOK!
I’m delighted to “introduce” a new author to my blog readers. Michael K. Reynolds is one of my agency mates and has been the writer and producer of Emmy- and Telly-Award winning film campaigns. (He owns his own marketing agency – Global Studio). Our February FREE BOOK is Michael’s first novel in a historical series based on Irish immigrants in the 19th century.
If you love Ireland, Michael K. Reynolds’ FLIGHT OF THE EARLS is for you. From the back cover, “When her family’s small Ireland farm is struck by famine in 1846, Clare Hanley and her younger brother, Seamus, set out across the ocean to the Promised Land of America . . . where Clare must face her fears as she lands in the coming-of-age New York City. It is there she will discover love, adventure, and a terrible secret that threatens to destroy her family and all she believes.”
Our give-away copy is a new trade paperback. To have your name included in our Tuesday, February 26 drawing, please leave a comment!
My question for you: Are you Irish? If not, where did your family originate?
Not Irish. My family is mostly German/Swiss.
I think we have some similarities in that, Jody!
So delighted for Micheal. I pray for great success for his book. My heritage is from Scotland and Belgium. Mary Tatem
Belgium, Mary. That is rare!
Yes! And proud of it! My grandma was born in Belfast. She met my American grandpa there during WWII. They married there as well
A war bride! I can’t imagine how difficult the adjustment would have been for her, leaving Ireland and coming to a new home in the US. She was a brave woman!
My ancestors come from the Highlands in place called Ross & Comarty Scotland, Germany & Irelend. Also I have some convicts who were sent to Van Diemans land Tasmania for such petty crimes.
This is so interesting, Trish. You come from strong and hardy stock. Amazing what some of our relatives went through to establish new homes in far places.
I am married to an Irish man and live in beautiful Ireland for some time now. I do not have any Irish blood in me, as a matter of fact my children are the first children in my family that have “mixed European blood”. I did not realized that until now. 🙂
And we in the US and Canada, Jackie, are almost all of “mixed European blood,” plus many of us also Native American, as is my family.
I have a friend who travels much in Europe, and she says that she can often tell what country people are from (at the airports, etc.) just by facial features, but that we in the US are just a bunch of mutts.” LOL!! My family on both sides has been in the Americas for at least 250 years, so we are definitely a mutt-ified bunch. My husband’s family has ancestors only from the British Isles, and he looks mostly Irish.
Yes my moms side is from Ireland. Great-grandma Hattie’s family came from Ireland into Canada then to the UP. Would love to visit some day!!
We are what we call in my family, Heinz 57. That basically means a melting pot. Here are few: German, Norweigan, Sweedish, Jewish, and I believe we might have a dash of blarney in there somewhere.
Excited for a chance to read Michael’s book! I absolutely love the COVER!!!
Not a drop of Irish blood in me, but I love novels about the Irish. Would love to visit the country. I’m Swedish/Syrian.
Jill
I am a mutt, probably a little Irish. Mostly German.
We are English/Swiss/American Indian/French American melting pot family. My daughter has been to Ireland with Royal Servants on a mission trip and fell in love with the country and the people.
For years we thought we were mostly German, too, Robbie – on my mom’s side. A few years ago we discovered through a genetic illness that we are mostly Jewish, plus Polish and Bohemian (Czech.) But we still proudly claim a little German!
Swedish, Syrian – that has to be one of the most unusual combinations. Wonderful!
I agree, Michelle. That cover is a real plus. That’s the kind of book I buy just because of the cover. Except, of course, I’m never that shallow. Right…LOL The great news is the inside is as great as the outside with Michael’s book!