LINES OF COURAGE – COVER REVEAL

There is SO MUCH news today, but the biggest news is first.

#1 LINES OF COURAGE

Check out this FREAKING AMAZING cover for my next historical novel – LINES OF COURAGE. I gotta be honest. I can’t stop staring at it.

World War 1 took place over five years. I am telling five stories from the perspectives of five young people in five different countries impacted by the war.

FELIX (1914; Austria-Hungary) Felix was there on the day of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the event that launched the Great War. He fears the chance that he may one day have to go to war. But he fears even more the Russian Captain Garinov, who seems to be targeting the Jews. Can Felix and his mother escape in time?

KARA (1915; England) When Kara and her mother are given the opportunity to join a Red Cross train, traveling through war-torn France, Kara knows this is her chance to become a nurse. Yet when she brings a wounded officer on board from the enemy side of the lines, she may have ruined that chance forever.

JULIETTE (1916; France) Juliette’s family are among the last to flee from Verdun before the battle starts. A mistaken turn to avoid the invading Germans leads to her separation from her family. Her search to find them will take her through farmland and fields, towns and trenches as she ultimately discovers her courage within.

DIMITRI: (1917; Russia) Recruited too young and by force, Dimitri now finds himself on the battlefields without even a weapon to defend himself. After a disastrous battle, his world is turned upside down, here in the war, and in the revolution waiting for him at home.

ELSA (1918; Germany) Germany cannot win the war. Elsa understand that more than most. Her once revered father, a German officer, now is targeted by angry citizens who see their country falling into poverty and chaos, made worse by the onset of a pandemic that can take anyone at random. And now the anger has turned toward her.

I hope this is a book you will want to read and discover how these five stories gradually come together in a book about loyalty, friendship, and courage. If you want a better understanding of World War I, this may be the perfect book for you!

LINES OF COURAGE will be released on March 1, 2022.

#2 School Visits

If you are a school librarian or teacher and are interested in having me come for a visit in the 2021-2022 school year, please see THIS POST for more information. I am booking schools now all over the country. I hope yours can be one of them.

#3  Newsletter Winners

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#4. SMIAH Conference

If you are a writer in the Kansas City, Missouri area, on Aug 27-28, 2021, I will be giving the keynote and teaching some classes at the upcoming SMIAH conference. This is an amazing conference run by highly dedicated people. It’s large enough that they can bring in wonderful teachers, but small enough that you won’t feel lost in the crowd. Please consider checking it out HERE!