The Darkest Hour Hit The USA Today Bestseller List…

This is one of those surreal moments in life that is so mind boggling, I just stare at the page of the USA Today Bestseller List and see my name in the top 100 (#67 to be exact). Yup that's my name on there along with my fellow authors of The Darkest Hour.

Thanks for including me is this magnificent anthology that goes to my heart: World War II resistance. The novella “Enemy at the Gate” pushed me in ways I never imagined. It's the first story I've actually written in first person POV. Normally I write in 3rd person POV but Enemy at the Gate was different. It was told through the eyes of a thirteen year old Zoe Lambros. I had to go back to In The Blood of the Greeks and discover the thirteen year old Zoe; she has come a long way since 1941 but slipping into her mindset in that period of time was fascinating and challenging.

It was a huge thrill for me to be a part of this anthology with such incredible WW2 fiction authors. So thank you to everyone who bought The Darkest Hour!

I will be releasing Enemy At The Gate as a standalone novel towards the end of the year with additional material I could add in the novella due to length limitations. Watch for more info about that on the Enemy At The Gate book page

Upcoming Radio Interview with Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back with author and playwright Mary D Brooks!

I will get  to catch up with author and playright, Mary D. Brooks about Mabel of the Anzacs radio play part two and her upcoming novella “Enemy at the Gate,” “Xena: Their Courage Changed Our World” and her upcoming book “Blood Ties.”

Listen in here

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rithebard/2019/02/03/chatting-with-sherri-welcomes-back-with-author-and-playwright-mary-d-brooks

World War II Article Links For The Week

Here's this week's fascinating stories relating to the Holocaust and/or World War II

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1940’s Bike Girls…

The site Vintage Everyday has this amazing collection of LIFE Magazine photos about women during the 1940s and their bikes!

1940s Bike Girls: Fascinating Photos of Female Motorcyclists From 1949, Taken by Loomis Dean for LIFE Magazine

These are some badass girls! In an era when it might have been strange to see woman in pants, their doing that while riding motorcycles! So inspiring in so many ways! These photos were taken in 1949 by Loomis Dean for LIFE magazine.

Click here to read see the entire collection

These are some of my favourites:

New Art: Enemy At The Gate

Here's some art from the upcoming novella “Enemy At The Gate” – the poem is part of the Greek National Anthem – I changed “sons” to “daughters” to fit in with the storyline

My contribution to the Darkest Hour Anthology is called “Enemy At The Gate”

It’s 1941 and the shadow of tyranny has laid claim to Zoe Lambros’ Greek homeland. The only way to freedom is to resist. Zoe is a determined thirteen-year-old who wishes to join in the fight to free Greece from occupation. With the help of her beloved cousin, Elisavet, Zoe is recruited into the Bouboulina Resistance group in a clandestine operation to rescue Jews from certain death. For Zoe, there is no turning back, because what’s left is either freedom or death.

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