The following is a guest post by Daniel Diehl, co-author of Apparition Atlas: The Ghost Hunter’s Travel Guide to Haunted America with Mark Donnelly. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. It’s a little difficult to explain to our readers exactly what we mean when we say that our latest non-fiction book, Apparition Atlas is a Ghost Hunter’s…
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A Zany Slice of Italy by Ivanka Di Felice
The following is a guest post by Ivanka Di Felice, author of A Zany Slice of Italy. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Book Description This light, lively book takes place in Italy, with hilarious anecdotes about the author and her husband’s trip to visit his family in Abruzzo and finally their escape to Tuscany. Ivanka Di Felice’s…
Little Miss Sure Shot by Jeffrey Marshall
Little Miss Sure Shot tells the story of Annie Oakley, a famous American markswoman in the 1880s. It relates her life from her birth in Ohio in 1860 to her rise to fame in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, until her death in 1922. In the process, we learn about the beautiful love story between Annie and her husband, Frank Butler. Frank gave up shooting for her and became…
Did you know that Agatha Christie had a learning disability called dysgraphia?
She had problems with handwriting and spelling. As a result, she had to dictate all her novels. She also had difficulty with arithmetic and foreign language learning. Other fun facts about the author: Agatha Christie has sold more than 2 billion books worldwide. She wrote more than 90 novels and two dozen collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. Her father died of pneumonia when she…
First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
It is not always true that a subtitle aptly sums up what a book is about. However, it certainly is the case here: “A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen”. Sophie Collingwood has just graduated from Oxford when she meets Eric Hall, an intriguing young American teacher who, like her, loves classic literature, especially Jane Austen. Unfortunately, the young man soon leaves for Paris to continue his…
Did you know that Lord Byron…
… had a pet bear when he was studying at Cambridge because he wanted to protest against the university’s policy against keeping dogs. In fact, he loved animals and had quite a few during his lifetime, most notably monkeys, peacocks, a parrot, a fox and a crocodile. Other fun facts about the author: Despite having a lame foot, he had numerous affairs with both men and women. He even had an…