Mar 20, 2016
I’m very pleased to announce that my newest non-fiction book “In The Blood of the Greeks: The Illustrated Companion” is now available! 104 Pages of illustrations, images, first hand accounts of events portrayed in the book and much more!
Purchase from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0994476523
Purchase from Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/6120291
The book will also be available in other bookstores in the coming week. A ebook version of the book will also be available shortly although you won’t be able to use the coloring book section.
This book combined my love for history, research and my characters – it was a joy to work on and I had the unbelievable help of Lucia Nobrega who did her amazing Eva and Zoe Illustrations plus the Australian War Memorial and the New Zealand War Memorial via the The Alexander Turnball Library in Wellington, NZ. The Jewish Museum of Greece just went out of their way to help with giving me access to their material and photo archive. A researcher’s dream come true.
It’s 1942 in German Occupied Greece during World War II, and two women, one Greek, the other German must work together to help Jews escape. They have to put aside their mutual antipathy to accomplish their clandestine operation. They know that one wrong move will put an end to their lives.
In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion is about the events written in the award-winning novel “In The Blood Of The Greeks”. Real life heroes of the Resistance, life in war-torn Greece and the Jewish fight for survival are portrayed through illustrations, images and real accounts. Part coloring book, part history book featuring Brazilian artist Lucia Nobrega’s illustrations of Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros and other characters from the novel.
Feb 17, 2016
Book 4 Awakenings has been shortlisted for an award 2015 BookViral Book Awards!
Announcing the 2015 BookViral Book Award Shortlist.
The response was simply overwhelming with over 1000 entries, but after much consideration and more than a little heated debate we have shortlisted the 50 books from which our Six Finalists and Award winner will be decided.
You will find traditionally published and indie authors side by side with many of the books shown spotlighted during 2015. You can read our reviews by simply clicking on the cover of your choice.
This page will be updated again on March 1st 2016 when we announce the Six Finalists and Award winner.
See all the shortlisted titles
Feb 17, 2016
There is an amazing interview with Titika Panagiotidou who was a member of the Greek Resistance during World War 2. It’s in Greek but you can do a Google translate and it translates it pretty well.
Jan 30, 2016
Here is a real life Zoe Lambros – Sara Yeshua who served in the Greek Resistance.
Many thanks to The Jewish Museum of Greece for the following biography and images
Born in the “Ovriaki” (Jewish quarter) of Chalkida in 1927, Sara (or Sarika) Yeshua belongs to the emblematic figures of the resistance. When the war broke out, she was a student in the Public Commercial School in Chalkida. After the untimely death of her father in the same year she was born, she was brought up by her mother, Zafira, and her older sister Yaffa on Kotsou St, the main street of the Jewish quarter. Her mother was the sister of war hero Col. Mardochaios Frizis, who played a key role in the formation of her patriotic consciousness. Before she turned 15, Sara assisted the wounded at city’s military hospital as a volunteer nurse.
The next step was the resistance. The energeticJewish girl secured fake identities for her mother and herself. From the beginning of the German occupation (October 1943), Sara got involved with EAM, took her mother and left Chalkida for Steni where her sister lived with her husband.
To guard against German incursions against the terrified Jews who had fled to the mountains, the resistance dispersed the Jewsin various villages (Paliouras, Theologos, Stropones, Vasiliko) and later they organised an escape network by boat to Turkey from Tsakei beach. The young Sara became a teacher in the isolated village of Kourkouloi and worked actively in EPON. After the horrific murder of her cousin Mendi Moschovitz by the Security Battalions in Stropones (4 March 1944) and the burning of Kourkouloi, she joined the partisan ranks. She established herself immediately as a speaker who passionately preached armed struggle, particularly among young women. Soon he formed an independent female group that fought, gathered intelligence and organised theatre performances in the villages. An American journalist who was in occupied Evia devoted a paragraph to her in an article aboutthe Greek partisans: “She’s a short, stocky girl with dark hair and blue eyes. She runs like a man and can shoot a walnut from a tree at 200 yards. Whether she is calling out marching orders or pounding out a beat with her arm as her Company goes singing down a mountain path, she does it vibrantly and proudly”. At the liberation, she was “kapetanissa” (partisan leader) of the Model Women’s Platoon of the 7th ELAS Regiment and already legendary among the partisans of Evia under the name “Captain Sarika.” She now lives in Tel Aviv.
Dec 14, 2015
Interview with Greek-Australian author, Mary D. Brooks
Hello peeps! Today, I am pleased to welcome a Greek author from Down Under! Mary D. Brooks is one of the latest additions to eNovel Authors at Work, who writes urban fantasy set in Greece during WWII. Check out these stunning covers:
Dec 12, 2015
I was emailed recently and asked if I was Jewish because my first book deals with Jews escaping from Greece and my posts related to the holocaust and other posts.
I’m not Jewish. I have no Jewish roots (that I know of) but my adopted grandmother, Evelyn Elephan was Jewish. I adopted her when I was 10 years old and she was my next door neighbour.
She survived Auschwitz. I met her at 10 and she passed away when I was 15. I had 5 short years with this woman and she changed my life. She gave me my first holocaust related novel and it opened my eyes to the horrors of hate. I asked her what Hanukkah was and instead of telling me, she gave me a book. That was her method: read it darling and then we will talk. I don’t have any pictures of her; just my memories.
I don’t know how old she was, she never told me her age. She was a woman with many medical problems stemming from her time in the camp but she was always joyful and always had sweets for me (I blame her for my addiction to black cats and jelly beans).
I never knew her birthday because she never celebrated it. She said to me that every day was her birthday.
Auschwitz finally claimed her. She died in her sleep and that’s all I knew. She once asked me what I wanted to be when i grew up and I said ‘a writer’ and she said ‘you will do it’. She didn’t live long enough to see it when I got published in 2001 with “In the Blood of the Greeks”
My character of Eva is named after her.
Treasure the people in your life; you may have them for a short time but they can change your life forever.
