February 2014

It has been a quiet period for new releases so I did not produce a newsletter in January.

There is 1 brand new naval fiction title out this month together with news of some recent kindle releases.

Brief information is given below with links to the full website articles.

Recent Latest Release Articles

This month articles have appeared about the following books which have been published or are available for pre-order

Fiction

V. E. Ulett has just released a new novel, a sequel to Captain Blackwell's Prize, Blackwell's Paradise. It is now available for kindle download worldwide.

David Perry has just released his first full length novel Not Self but Country: A New Nation Forges a New Navy. It is now available for kindle download worldwide.

Author Roger Burnage has just released the third book of The Merriman Chronicles, The Threat in the East. It is available for Kindle download worldwide.

Other Nautical Fiction

S. K. Keogh has a new book which has just been released worldwide, The Alliance. The second book in a pirate fiction series, The Jack Mallory Chronicles, it is available in paperback and ebook versions.

Featured Author

Each month I provide a short bio of one of the authors on the site. This month we will look at Jay Worrall.

Jay Worrall was born in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, in the middle of World War II. Raised as a Quaker and in a military family he grew up in a variety of places around the world, living in six countries on four continents. He speaks English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Vietnamese with varying degrees of fluency. At Earlham College, a Quaker school in Indiana, he received a BA with a major in Physics, and later an MA and ABD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia. He also studied at the University of London in England. As a pacifist and conscientious objector during the Vietnam War he worked for two years in refugee camps in the Central Highlands of that country. Afterward he taught English in Japan.

Worrall worked for many years in the area of social science research in and around Washington, DC, eventually specializing in developing innovative and humane prison programs, policies and administration. He has also managed his own construction company as well collaborative programs on Soviet-American literature and Chinese-American business relations. Most recently he worked for a major Quaker organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as director of historical interpretation. His principal lifelong interest, both from an academic perspective and personal experience, has been the intersection of history and technology and their influence on the values, social systems and daily lives of ordinary people across time. He currently lives and writes in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, not far from Philadelphia, is married and the very proud father of five grown children and seven grandchildren.

He has recently revived his Charles Edgemont series with the release of a new book, A Sea Unto Itself

Books with a release date this month

First editions or first paperback releases this month

Fiction

The King's Marauder by Dewey Lambdin (Hardback - Worldwide)

It is due for release on 4 Februaryy 2014

Non-Fiction

Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History by Nick Robins (Hardcover - UK)

It is due for release on 17 February 2014

Modern Era

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