Celebrating Afterglow

Today - for our blog-hop - I am celebrating an afterglow. No, I haven’t switched from Historical Fiction to Erotica (something perhaps to be considered). But traditionally once a runner-up or someone having been shortlisted for an award is out of the finals race, he or she sinks back into oblivion.

Not so with the founder and organizer of the 2014 Indie Award for best historical fiction. Helen Hollick was the driving force for the Historical Novel Society’s first nod toward self-published authors. And what an awesome array it was http://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.co.uk/p/hns.html.

FYI, the deserving winner was Virginia Cox’s “The Subtlest Soul.”

To keep our feathers puffed up for a while, Helen’s colleague Charlie Farrow – one of the mainstays of organizing the HNS Conference - has put together a super (and unique) “banner/logo” for us Shortlisters to display and gloat about.

KHAMSIN, The Devil Wind of The Nile

Thanks, Helen and Charlie. I like and appreciate it.

Check out Helen’s interesting blog as well as her books: www.ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com