It’s the final day of the Pagan Warrior blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club, and to celebrate I am running a competition to win a signed set of the trilogy in paperback.
To enter, either sign up for my newsletter here (and receive a free short story set after the events of the trilogy), or if you’ve already signed up, drop me a quick email (mjporterauthor@gmail.com), and let me know you want to enter the competition. I will post worldwide and the competition will run until May 19th 2023, at which point, I will contact the winner, and announce them (if they are happy for me to do so) on my social media channels. Good luck everyone.
Pagan Warrior is the story of the battle of Hædfeld, fought in the seventh century between the Northumbrians, and you got it, the Mercians – or rather, Cadwallon of Gwynedd but with Penda of Mercia as his firm ally. You can find more details here.
A quick shout out to thank all the blog hosts and Cathie at The Coffee Pot Book Club for organising.
For May 16th, check out a review for Pagan Warrior on
and a guest post about Mercia’s legacy over on
For May 9th, check out
An excerpt on
For May 2nd, check out the review on
And a guest post on who King Edwin of Northumbria was over on
For April 25th, check out a post about Penda of Mercia.
Read an excerpt featuring Eowa, Penda’s brother on
And, read an excerpt featuring Penda on
For April 18th, I answered Paul Walker’s questions on his blog
There’s an except over on Wendy J Dunn’s Official Blog featuring King Edwin
And a fabulous review on Ruins and Readings
For April 11th, read a guest post about how we know, what we know, about the seventh century.
And a fabulous author interview over on
For April 4th, read an excerpt on
Elizabeth St John’s Official Blog
And read about warfare in the Saxon period on
For March 28th, check out a fabulous review on
https://gwendalynbooks.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/pagan-warrior/
A guest post about Mercia in the later eighth century on the Historical Fiction Blog.
https://historicalfictionblog.com/pagan-warrior-guest-post/
And, the post that perhaps gave me the most fear to begin will but which was fun when I remembered all the little details, five fun facts about writing the trilogy.
For March 21st check out a post about two of the royal residences of Bernicia at the time, Bamburgh and Ad Gefrin (Yeavering). (There are lots of photos, thank you to Helen Hollick for uploading them all).
And a review from
From March 14th, check out my author interview over on Archaeolibrarian.
I’m sharing an excerpt over on The Historical Fiction Company.
The Historical Fiction Company
I’ve written a piece about the historical background on Pam Lecky’s official blog.
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