She gave me 5 stars!
Found a great review of 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate' by Ashton Rae, a reader who really gets this book.
She wrote: I could not put this down!!! It took me less than a week to read it! I'm in love with the stories of Mary Read and Anne Bonney, and now you get upclose and personal with the two of them! So gripping and riveting! Really is edge of your seat gripping! Lots of action! (not just sword fighting either haha) I recommend this to all sea story lovers!!! It made me cry at certain parts. 
Thanks Ashton.
I wrote it for readers like you.

The Death of the Nordvag

Bad news came that day

and it was terrible for me:

the Norvag's been abandoned

to the mercy of the sea.

We once crewed a gallant ship

that sails my memory,

the broad and beamy Nordvag,

from the salty Baltic Sea.

In truth, she was a noble ship

well built of Baltic wood,

with Dragon carved in bulkhead,

copper Mermaids on her hood,

dolphins curved in bookshelves,

and dancing round her bow,

she was a sight with bellied sails,

when we stood at her prow,

but how I think we'd rant and rail

if we could see her now.

When she turned to face the storm

in the Caribbean Sea

off the Golfo de Pirates

she showed her quality.

When the ocean was a foaming hell

that made other vessels flee,

we surfed waves full masthead high

and lived triumphantly.

Now the Nordvag lies forgotten

At the bottom of the sea.

Every time I hear the sea

crashing on the shore,

I think of the Nordvag

and our blue water tour:

the mad adventures we survived

in our floating caravan,

the Nordvag riding on the waves

of unknown, foreign lands,

while we rested in the sun

on exotic golden sands.

When I was a wild gypsy girl

and the wicked world did roam,

the Nordvag was my soul's abode,

My only, ever home.

And when my life comes to an end,

we will together sail,

and roam the oceans always,

me at the wheelhouse rail.

For the Nordvag has a soul like mine:

unfettered, ever free,

and we cannot forget her,

and her gift of liberty.

But now its time to weep and wail

and write sad poetry,

for the Nordvag lies forsaken

in the cold and cruel sea.

Last week was really busy with an intense campaign promoting 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate'. This included providing a free download of the ebook on Amazon Kindle, for two days over the weekend. We had set our target at 100 downloads, and were very pleased to find that we had well over this. There are now 100 plus people sailing against the Scottish Pretender, fighting the French in Marlborough's army, and signing up with the Brethren of the Coast. Thanks for the great reviews that have kept coming in - its that kind of feedback that makes all the hard work worthwhile.

Now listen up folks. My pirate novel 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier Pirate' will be available as FREE DOWNLOAD on Amazon Kindle Saturday 11th May to midnight Sunday 12th May PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) as part of a new promotion, and I am asking all you beautiful people to go over to Amazon and download a free copy even if all you want to do is have a cursory look. Just click on the link and you will be taken to the my book http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042AMFHA  Remember this is Saturday and Sunday this weekend 11/12 May only. Before or after that date you will have to pay $3.99. If you feel like posting a review on Amazon after, I'd much appreciate it. Feel free to tell your friends and pass the link on. Happy reading.

Cherie

'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate' now has a sleek new website!
 
http://maryread.weebly.com/index.html
To promote my novel on this extraordinary pirate woman, 'Mary Read'  has her own dedicated website, from which the novel can be bought as either a paperback or e-book through Amazon and Kindle.
On the website you will find a FREE excerpt from the novel, reviews of the book, and my short biography.
If you go directly over to Amazon now, you can check out the book and read the first three chapters.

Welcome to my new blog!
My patient husband is dragging me kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and taking me step-by-step into the cyberworld of the author blog. Either we sell more of my pirate books, or I swear I am back to the eighteenth century and snail mail.
Yesterday I posted off a screenplay, 'Black & White' to the Australian Writer's Guild annual Monte Miller award. This is based on a true story, the bones of which I found at the Agnes Waters Museum seventeen years ago.
A hundred years ago, a pretty young white girl called Edie Anderson left her isolated lighthouse home in Central Queensland to work as housekeeper on Turkey Station. Despite her social obligation to marry well, and provide for her poor family, she fell in love with a handsome, charming black stockman called George Daniels. This was an illegal relationship at the time, so they kept it secret. Being the only marriageable female for many hundreds of miles, Edie was swamped with other suitors, some very eligible, some just ridiculous. But her secret was finally discovered, and in disgrace, she dropped George, and let her most eligible suitor escort her home. They never made it. We know from police evidence that George met up with them, and that Edie's escort was ambushed and shot in the back. George and Edie were never seen again, and her escort was found dying. Fred bowton, the man who found him raised the alarm, and claimed that Edie's dying escort named George as the killer. However, the police ignored vital evidence, such as George's gun being only able to fire one round at a time. Apart from the unlikely scenario of a killer taking a defective gun instead of stealing one that worked, this does not account for the evidence of multiple shots fired in quick succession. If there was a shoot-out, then there was someone else there. The only conclusion is that fred Bowton was lying, and had killed them all.
Here's hoping that the Australian Writer's Guild likes the story as much as I do. I'll let you know next month.