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The Wisdom of the Flock was recently awarded an Honorable Mention in the Indie Fiction category of the CWA 2021 Book of the Year Awards! https://www.chicagowrites.org/book_of_the_year Thanks to The Chicago Writers Association for this Honor!!
Well – here it is September and less than 1 week until The Wisdom of the Flock goes on tour (September 6th through 17th) with the Coffee Pot Book Club. There will be 1-2 stops blog stops per day and the tour will include some brand new content – including guest blog posts, author interviews,…
The Colorado Independent Publishers Association recently honored The Wisdom of the Flock: Franklin and Mesmer in Paris with their prestigious EVVY award for 2021. TWOTF was voted the #1 book in the Historical Fiction category at this year’s EVVY’s. My sincere thanks to CIPA for this honor. And a big shout out to Kirsten Jensen…
Readers on the Manybooks website https://Manybooks.net recently selected The Wisdom of the Flock as the Best Book in the Historical Fiction genre for July 2021. You can find out more about the award here: https://manybooks.net/articles/books-of-the-month-july-2021 Many thanks to Manybooks for this honor!
The Wisdom of The Flock will be going on a blog tour in September. The first blog tour in March was a blast. I got an opportunity to meet (virtually) a lot of great bloggers and did several author interviews and guest posts. While the details of the tour are still being worked out, you…
Mesmer and Mesmerism Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) trained as a physician in Vienna. He was strongly influenced by the experiments of Maximillian Hell (the astronomer and Jesuit priest) on the effects of magnets on the human body. Mesmer theorized that there exists a force (or fluid – as it…
What was Paris like in the late 1700’s when Ben lived there? Paris was the 2nd largest city in Europe (after London) at that time – with a population of about 600,000 people toward the end of the 18th century. The city was then, as it is now, centered around the Île de la…
Ben’s home for almost the entire time that he was in France was the home of Jacques and Marie-Thérèse Leray in Passy. He was an aristocrat and prominent businessman with connections to the Court of King Louis XVI. She was from a noble background, mother of their five children, and homemaker at the estate. They…
Ben Franklin’s Inventions and Inventiveness Other than as a Founding Father of America, Benjamin Franklin is probably best known for his experiments with electricity. No, he didn’t invent electricity. He did find ways to characterize and tame it. He invented the lightning rod so that buildings and ships would be better protected from damage. But did…