The era of the Tudors was one of spies, intrigue, conspiracy, and danger. . . Filled with the intrigue and pageantry of Tudor England, The Tudor Secret brings this world to life from a new perspective, telling the story of a spy who becomes the protector of England’s future queen. (NOTE: The Tudor Secret is [CONTINUE READING]
Feb 242011
C.W. Gortner stopped by earlier this week to talk to us about interweaving fact with fiction and since I enjoyed his novels The Last Queen and The Confessions of Catherine Medici, I wanted to share with you his latest novel The Tudor Secret which is book one in his new series Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles. [CONTINUE READING]
Feb 232011
Pump Up Your Book will be hosting the February 2011 Authors on Tour on Friday February 25, 2011 at 9 – 11 p.m. (eastern time – adjust to your time zone). This is your opportunity to chat with the authors AND… GET A CHANCE TO WIN PRIZES!!!! The participating authors and their giveaways include: Rose [CONTINUE READING]
In my latest novel, THE TUDOR SECRET, Book One in the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles, I set myself to a challenge that proved more daunting than I originally thought. Despite its shorter length, compared to my other novels THE LAST QUEEN and THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI, THE TUDOR SECRET is deceptively complex, interweaving [CONTINUE READING]
At the age of fourteen, Catherine de Medici, last legitimate descendant of the Medici blood, finds herself betrothed to the King Francois I’s son, Henri. Sent from her native Florence to France, humiliated and overshadowed by her husband’s life-long devotion to his mistress, when tragedy strikes her family Catherine rises from obscurity to become one [CONTINUE READING]
May 262009
In this stunning novel, C.W. Gortner brings to life Juana of Castile, the third child of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain, who would become the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country’s throne. Along the way, Gortner takes the reader from the somber majesty of Spain to the glittering and lethal [CONTINUE READING]
