Only beaten by Dan Brown

by admin on August 5, 2010

This picture made us smile. Waterstones Bolton chart this week where Elizabeth Ashworth’s The de Lacy Inheritance is at No 2, ahead of Steig Larsson and John Grisham and only beaten by Dan Brown.

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Inspired to write: a man with leprosy

by admin on July 30, 2010

Author Elizabeth Ashworth explains the inspiration behind The de Lacy Inheritance.

Someone said to me the other day that it was daring to have a leper as the ‘hero’ of my novel The de Lacy Inheritance.  So what inspired me to write about a man with leprosy?

I’ve always been interested in the local history of Lancashire, where I live, and when I heard the story of a hermit who had lived in a cave beneath Clitheroe Castle I wanted to know more.  And when I discovered that he had been the eldest son of a noble family I felt compelled to tell the story of Richard FitzEustace who had contracted the disease whilst on Crusade with Richard the Lionheart and who lost everything because of it – home, family, fortune, his standing in society as a nobleman and any chance of a normal life.

There’s a growing archive about the de Lacy family and a slide show of some of the settings for the novel on my blog: www.elizabethashworth.wordpress.com

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Meet Elizabeth Ashworth

July 26, 2010

Elizabeth Ashworth, author of The de Lacy Inheritance, will be signing copies at the following Waterstones book shops over the summer.
Saturday 31st July – Waterstones Bolton, 2-4pm
Saturday 7th August – Waterstones Lancaster, 1pm
Saturday 11th September – Waterstones Preston, 2pm
Using characters known to recorded history, including one to become the real Sheriff of Nottingham, [...]

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Meet Tim Murgatroyd

July 25, 2010

Tim Murgatroyd, author of Taming Poison Dragons, is signing copies at book stores in Yorkshire and Suffolk this summer. Signed copies are available at Waterstones York, Waterstones Leeds and Waterstones Bradford.
And two more book store visits have been added to the schedule:
Saturday 31st July – Waterstones Huddersfield, 11.30am to 1.30pm
Saturday 7th August – Waterstones Bury [...]

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Lancashire Life meets Elizabeth Ashworth

July 25, 2010

Myrmidon’s newest author Elizabeth Ashworth enjoyed a photoshoot at Clitheroe Castle for Lancashire Life magazine. Elizabeth spoke about the intriguing historical story that inspired her idea for her debut novel, The de Lacy Inheritance, and shared some of her writing background from selling her first fiction to Pony magazine aged 15 to having The de [...]

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Double signing @ Waterstones Leeds

July 12, 2010

This Saturday, Craig Smith, in the UK to promote his new thriller Cold Rain, joined up with fellow Myrmidon author Tim Murgatroyd in store at Waterstones Leeds. Murgatroyd’s epic adventure set in 12th century China, Taming Poison Dragons is also newly published in paperback. Yorkshire shoppers welcomed the chance to meet the authors.
“It all went [...]

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Craig Smith hits London and Leeds

July 9, 2010

Craig Smith has been visiting bookshops all over London to promote his new thriller Cold Rain published this week. An American living in Switzerland he’d visited London before, “but I know it a lot better now,” he confessed. “And I’ve taken a lot of tubes.” It’s been a warm week in the capital and aside [...]

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Tim Murgatroyd on BBC Leeds

July 4, 2010

Taming Poison Dragons author Tim Murgatroyd was a guest on the Late Show on BBC Leeds and Yorks on Friday 2nd July 2010. With Taming Poison Dragons, his first novel, newly published in paperback, Tim explained that the title reflected the theme of the story which is about taming your inner demons.
Presenter Shourjo Sarker described [...]

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Craig Smith to visit UK

June 30, 2010

After the runaway success of the ‘Messiah’ sequence of history based action thrillers – translated into seven languages – Craig Smith will be touring in the UK from 6th to 10th July to coincide with the launch of his new novel, Cold Rain, a stylish and intelligent noir thriller set on and around a university [...]

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