Membro: gwernin

Thanks for choosing me to receive and review one of your books, only I have to report that I haven't received it yet. I have checked all spam filters etc, it just doesn't seem to have arrived. Could I trouble you to send it again, please - rmwhunter@blueyonder.co.uk.
Thank you, Happy Christmas.
Bob

publicado por BobH1 às 8:36 am (EST) em Dec 23, 2009

Thank you for selecting me to receive one of your books. I look forward to reading it and submitting a review.

Mark

publicado por MarkGuest às 9:29 am (EST) em Dec 18, 2009

Thank you for picking me to read your book! I will tell you that I am not really good at reading the descriptions when books are posted. I mean, The genre is right up my alley, but I didn't realize it was the 3rd book of a series. So, you'll get 3 reviews for the price of one. I am going to look for Storyteller and Flight of the Hawk during my Christmas break.
I am so looking forward to reading them!

Thanks again.
Cat

publicado por MDLady às 11:31 am (EST) em Dec 17, 2009

Thank you! However, I haven't received the book could you please send it to me again? (Could you put ebook in the subject line?)
I look forward to reading it!
Chirtie

publicado por Chirtie às 3:50 pm (EST) em Dec 7, 2009

THANK YOU!! I am looking forward to reading your book. I have a few books ahead of yours in line but it should be fairly soon.
With anticipation...
Stan @ Iluvvideo

publicado por iluvvideo às 4:36 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2009

In your blurb in the Member Giveaway section about The Ash Spear you refer to the books as being Flight of the Hawk, probably just a cut and paste error, but I figured you may want to see if that can be corrected for clarity.

Also, where can I find physical copies of the books in this series? I'd like to buy them if possible.

publicado por StormRaven às 12:49 pm (EST) em Dec 3, 2009

I know it's rude to try to line jump, but I would very much like a pdf copy of "The Ash Spear." It's wonderfull that it comes without digital rights management so that I can put it on my Kindle to read. My hands are too worn out to work on the computer anymore so I am home on disability and doing a great deal of reading. We seem to like the same authors and I love this time period so I am sure I would enjoy it. Does Amazon carry your other books? I will have to check.

Merry Christmas or whichever holiday you celebrate.

Diane L Urbanec AKA glitrbug
OmahaUrbanec@aol.com

publicado por glitrbug às 9:53 pm (EST) em Dec 2, 2009

Hi! I haven't had a chance to read your book yet, as my home computer has been out of commission. I hope to have it up and running soon, so I can start reading!

Lisa

publicado por bunkie68 às 10:44 am (EST) em Nov 27, 2009

krissaboman@gmail.com is my current email adress

publicado por Krissa7 às 7:17 pm (EST) em Nov 23, 2009

Still cannot download the file for Storyteller. It seems to have a bad segment in it, somehow. If you have an idea, or can make a fresh copy of the file? It would be truly appreciated. Thanks so much.
Sincerely,
Shirley Worthen
South Jordan, Utah

publicado por shirfire218 às 1:34 pm (EST) em Nov 20, 2009

THANK YOU for offering me a chance to read your novel thru Library Thing. It is now on my currently reading list. I'm really looking forward to it.

publicado por iluvvideo às 3:39 pm (EST) em Nov 19, 2009

Thank you, so much for the consideration of sending your e-book to me for review as per the Library Thing Member Giveaway award. I truly appreciate it and look forward to receiving it, downloading it and putting it on my to read and review list. I have gotten a good start on Ash Spear, and I really like it. I must admit due to circumstances, my reading time has shrunk drastically; something I regret more than I can say. Also I seem to have a bit of difficulty with the e-book format as I am an old dinosaur and seem to be addicted to the printed format I have grown to love so dearly. However, I shall do my best as I am also on a moratorium for buying new books. By the way, I have received the link from you for Storyteller and am having some difficulty downloading it. I will give it another try, and if that fails I may contact you again, if you don't mind.
Sincerely,
Shirley Worthen
South Jordan, Utah

publicado por shirfire218 às 1:58 pm (EST) em Nov 19, 2009

I got your book by email yesterday. I look forward to reading it and hope to have a review up in a few weeks. Thanks!

publicado por justabookreader às 6:24 am (EST) em Nov 19, 2009

I greatly appreciate snagging the copy of Storyteller. Thank you for listing it. I look forward to recieving it and will post a review as soon as possible. Thank you

publicado por Altarasabine às 3:52 pm (EST) em Nov 18, 2009

I recieved them today and am pleased as punch! Thank you so much!

publicado por pollysmith às 7:48 pm (EST) em Oct 10, 2009

Oh My Goodness! Thats so nice of you! I'm looking foreward to having them, Thank you very much!

publicado por pollysmith às 6:56 pm (EST) em Oct 6, 2009

no prob!

publicado por pollysmith às 7:44 am (EST) em Oct 6, 2009

cool! Thanks!

publicado por pollysmith às 8:58 pm (EST) em Oct 4, 2009

well no, I never have. I could send a money order!
What would the cost be I wonder? I can't afford a lot but ten or twenty dollars wouldn't be beyond my limit.

My address:

Paulette Smith
8910 East Main Street Lot # 17
Reynoldsburg Ohio, 43068

Let me know, okay?

publicado por pollysmith às 7:27 pm (EST) em Oct 4, 2009

Are you serious? I would love that boxed set! How much do you want for it?

Pollysmith

publicado por pollysmith às 6:33 pm (EST) em Oct 4, 2009

The day and age when an author can alert a fan to the release of a new text is a *wonderful* time indeed. Thank you for alerting me to "The Ash Spear" being made available.

Will there be an etext edition released for sale via Lulu Press or Amazon? I am slowly converting (most of) my dead tree guts books to digital and already have the first two in .PDF form.

publicado por An_Fear_Glas às 6:42 pm (EST) em Aug 17, 2009

Hi,

Just wanted to say thanks again for "Flight of the Hawk". I was a pleasure to read. I posted a review about a week ago. I'm looking forward to "The Ash Spear", which I intend to purchase.

Best Regards,
Dan

publicado por dchaikin às 12:43 pm (EST) em Aug 4, 2009

Thanks for the correction. I guess I didn't scroll far enough when I reached the end of the story :)

Thanks for sending me the first two books as well. Believe me, I'm going to be getting to them fairly soon.

publicado por ElenaGwynne às 4:12 pm (EST) em Jul 13, 2009

Diolch am eich ateb i fi, a mae'n ddrwg gen i hefyd achos mod i'n just nawr sgrifennu ateb i chi! Diolch yn fawr am ddechrau yn Gymraeg yn eich neges olaf :) Diolch hefyd am y ddogfen PDF. Darllenais yr llyfr a dw i wedi 'sgrifennu adolygiad ar librarything ac Amazon hefyd nawr. Roedd y llyfr yn iawn - cyffrous a diddorol. Diolch yn fawr eto.

Wna i ddefnyddio Saesneg i ateb i'r gweddill o'ch neges.

Regarding Lawhead - he is definitely worth reading. His books: Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon, Grail and Patrick: Son of Ireland all cover a very similar period to yours. he also sets some books a few hundres years later but still with a strong Celtic bent in Byzantium, The Iron Lance, the Black Rood and The Mystic Rose.

There are some marked differences between Lawhead's books and yours (most notably that he always centres his stories around faith communities, which you appear to stear clear of), but in terms of research and details your work is reminicent of his - and I mean that in a good way, because whilst being a little picky in my first review, both your books and his are thoroughly researched.

Whilst talking details: in Flight of the Hawk you mention crannogs in Scotland, and say that they are less common in Wales. Indeed, Wales has only one Crannog and coincidentally I was speaking to Sian Rees of Cadw about it last week. The Welsh Crannog at Llangorse lake dates from the 9th century, so indeed in the 6th century in Wales there would be no crannogs at all.

On an explanation of the "ll" sound in Welsh - yes that is going to be hard. I usually go for:

Put the tongue on the roof of your mouth, behind your teeth, just as if you are making an "l" sound, and then blow air as you make the l sound. If practicing with a friend, try not to spit on them :)

Anyway, thanks again for the PDF of the second book, and I hope you like the review.

publicado por sirfurboy às 6:03 am (EST) em Jul 10, 2009

If you think I could comprehend ASH SPEAR without the information contained in STORYTELLER, by all means, start there. I'd ultimately love to read both, though I suppose the order might not be of utmost importance... you're the author; you tell me. :)

publicado por wowcaipora às 3:18 pm (EST) em Jul 3, 2009

I would LOVE to take a look at ASH SPEAR! And as there's no better place to start than the beginning, I'll take up your offer of STORYTELLER as well. Please contact me at wowcaipora@hotmail.com and I'll send you back a review as soon as I can. :) Have a great JULY 4th! :)

publicado por wowcaipora às 7:12 pm (EST) em Jul 2, 2009

Again, thanks. That's very kind of you. I'm guessing you have a fantastic amount of material. It's so good to see someone making something of the old Welsh legends. I shall certainly review it when I have the time to read it. And again, I wish you luck with this series.

publicado por dargie às 1:47 am (EST) em Jun 23, 2009

Y'know I would love to read the second book, but honestly I cannot promise you any sort of timely review on it, so I hesitate to say yes. Work and home issues are flying at me right now, and with a backlog of Amazon.vine stuff to get through as well... Well you know how it is, I imagine.

I'd actually feel better about it if I could contact you when I feel as if some time has opened up for me. But then, time never seems to... I'm going to leave it up to you. If you want to send with no clear option for being reviewed, or wait until I clear some time... either way it's your call.

Thanks again for letting me read Storyteller. I think you have done amazing work.

Dargie

publicado por dargie às 6:15 pm (EST) em Jun 22, 2009

Gerwin,
I was half way into Storyteller, and seem to have lost the pdf. file you sent me. I have busy taking management classes online, and had to break from reading the book. I really want to finish the book, if you can resend the pdf. My email is: silvio808@yahoo.com

Thanks!
Suzanne

publicado por SFM13 às 12:34 pm (EST) em Jun 22, 2009

Hi! I'm sorry it took me so much longer to get to read Storyteller, but things got very busy here (garden, reviews, my own writing) all of a sudden. Anyway, I wanted you to know that I finally posted a review here as well as on Amazon.com and my Dreamwidth and Live Journal accounts.

I really enjoyed Storyteller, and am terribly impressed by your knowledge of the time and place. I hope you do well with it. Thank you so much for letting me read it.

publicado por dargie às 1:44 am (EST) em Jun 22, 2009

Thanks! I'll be sure to post in that thread when the book arrives and I look forward to reading it!
Natalie

publicado por yummyfishmeister às 8:02 pm (EST) em Jun 7, 2009

Thank you so much. I will be happy to post reviews for you once I finish reading the book. My preferred email address is dovelady1962@hotmail.com
Elizabeth

publicado por myfavoritethings às 12:23 pm (EST) em May 28, 2009

Another question for you - Is there a place I can find high resolution images of your covers?

publicado por dchaikin às 2:21 pm (EST) em May 22, 2009

It's the quality control that makes me hesitant to pick up self-published books. And, really, it's books like yours that me more willing to do so.

again, thanks for the interesting publishing info.

publicado por dchaikin às 10:35 am (EST) em May 22, 2009

Thanks for explanation.

Cheers,
d

publicado por dchaikin às 10:25 am (EST) em May 22, 2009

Hi gwernin, I just finished Storyteller, which I enjoyed quite a bit. I'll have to think on it a bit before I review. I definitely plan to get to the second book sometime. I'm curious, was Storyteller a self-published book? I don't know anything about publishing, I don't even know exactly what self-published means. I'm asking because I'm thinking of mentioning something of the sort in my review and want to be sure I get it right.

Thanks again for the copy!

Cheers,
d

publicado por dchaikin às 9:38 am (EST) em May 22, 2009

The PDF arrived safely. It's in my reading queue and I should get to it some time next week. Many thanks. I really look forward to reading this.

publicado por dargie às 6:22 pm (EST) em May 19, 2009

I'm glad to hear that! You can ship the PDF to: dargienfo@gmail.com There's no real hurry on this as I have a bit of a queue right now due to the fact that it's spring and getting the garden in has taken time away from reading. However I am catching up and I will definitely get to this in a timely manner.

Thanks so much for allowing me to become one of your readers.

Dargie

publicado por dargie às 2:09 am (EST) em May 18, 2009

Thank you for the copy of "Storyteller". I plan on reading during my memorial vactaions..

publicado por CKHillman às 6:43 pm (EST) em May 15, 2009

It's been ages since I read any fiction about dark age Britain that moved me. Something about the excerpt you posted on the giveaway page stirred my imagination. I would certainly be happy to read and give my honest opinion of your book.

I'm not sure if by "established reviewers" you mean those who do it for a living, or those of us who enjoy sharing our ideas and opinions with others. I'm one of the latter. I've been reviewing over on Amazon.com for nearly a dozen years and am one of the top thousand reviewers there. I've copied all my book reviews to Library Thing, so if you're interested in seeing what I've done, you can check them out right on this site.

Recently I've begun reviewing for Thomas Nelson Company, and am involved in a few other publishers' review programs.

Thanks

publicado por dargie às 6:21 pm (EST) em May 15, 2009

Thank you so much for sending Flight of the Hawk so quickly, as wells as for the thoughtful letter and promotional DVD! I am very excited about reading it, as I am a huge fan of Celtic lore, historical fiction, the Dark Ages...pretty much everything this book is about! I have not yet read Storyteller--do you think I should before I start Flight? I usually like to read series in order, but I've found that some work either way. I believe I have entered the Member Giveaway, but I'm going to check now just in case.

I expect to start reading your book in early June, as I am smack in the middle of Drums of Autumn and also have a few library books to go through before they're overdue :) I can't wait! (Don't tell, but I've moved yours ahead of some other books I need to read and review.) Cheers!

Mary

publicado por MissTeacher às 6:06 pm (EST) em May 15, 2009

Thank you for the copy of "Storyteller". I plan on reading it as soon as school is out. Just 14 more days... not that I am counting...LOL!!

publicado por Amanda16948 às 7:43 pm (EST) em May 14, 2009

I'm so excited! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

publicado por MissTeacher às 1:33 pm (EST) em May 12, 2009

Gwernin,

Thanks for the offer! I'll check out the first three chapters online, since I don't want you to send out a hardcopy if it looks like it's not my cup of tea, and let you know.

publicado por lorax às 12:06 pm (EST) em May 12, 2009

Thank you, I received my copy of "Storyteller" today. Look forward to reading it!

publicado por epivet às 5:24 pm (EST) em Apr 20, 2009

i got my copy of "King Arthur's Raid on Hell" yesterday. I shall start reading it soon. Thanks very much for sending it.

publicado por jaelquinn às 1:20 am (EST) em Mar 25, 2009

That is to say, that we do appreciate you. You sound like a cool person and I have pointed your work out to my partner as well.

publicado por chellerystick às 12:06 am (EST) em Mar 25, 2009

I'll buy you a t-shirt; that way you don't feel so left out. (;

publicado por chellerystick às 7:21 pm (EST) em Mar 24, 2009

I got my copy of "Guernen Sang Again . . ." today. Thank you, I will start reading it very soon.

publicado por StormRaven às 4:20 pm (EST) em Mar 18, 2009

Definitely. I was thinking of Llywelyn yesterday as well and posted a comment on my facebook page in remembrance. Interesting how much things have changed in 726 years. I also find it rather interesting that my birthday is today, the day after Llywelyn's death, though I was born 695 years later.

I'm glad to hear my review helped. There are a lot of historical fiction readers out there and the good ones can be hard to find. Sharon Kay Penman, who wrote Here Be Dragons, has a new blog and I commented on your books and website there. She responded that she would check them out!

publicado por cuffindell às 12:30 pm (EST) em Dec 12, 2008

Yes, I can help you with that. There are a few different ways to easily input Roman letters with diacritical marks. You can find the best methods here:

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/inter...

Personally, I use the additional keyboards method in a Windows XP environment, as detailed in the link provided here. If set up with a hotkey for switching between keyboards, it is pretty painless. An example: the Icelandic keyboard allows one to make acute accents over any vowel, and allows for eth, thorn, o-umlaut, and a few other useful characters. I keep English, Icelandic, and Welsh keyboards in my language bar and use the hotkey of Alt-Shift to switch between them as needed, and the Language Bar sits on the taskbar, so you can always see which one is active.

This screenshot shows just the English and Icelandic keyboards, which is all I need here at my job. This might help you set up yours this way if you prefer this method.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8257/...

publicado por An_Fear_Glas às 6:52 pm (EST) em Sep 18, 2008

Regarding your question about "Ancient warfare : archaeological perspectives": it is hard to say yet whether it is a good text. I purchased it on the same day that I added it to my catalogue. I have only read one article and the introduction thus far since I am currently taking notes on Motz's "Faces of the Goddess".

This is a TOC for the book:

1.) Introduction --- John Carman, Anthony Harding
2.) The origins of war and ethnic violence --- Jonathan Haas
3.) Biosocial and bioarchaeological aspects of conflict and warfare --- Don Brothwell
4.) Beyond the Western way of war: ancient battlefields in comparative perspective --- John Carman
5.) Stone Age warfare --- Slavomil Vencl
6.) War and peace in prehistoric Eastern Europe --- P. M. Dolukhanov
7.) Neolithic enclosures in Greek Macedonia: violent and non-violent aspects of territorial demarcation --- Dimitra Kokkinidou, Marianna Nikolaidou
8.) The origins of warfare in the prehistory of Central and Eastern Europe --- John Chapman
9.) The origins of warfare in the British Isles --- R. J. Mercer
10.) Warfare: a defining characteristic of Bronze Age Europe? --- Anthony Harding
11.) The emergence of warrior aristocracies in later European prehistory and their long-term history --- Kristian Kristiansen
12.) Into the Iron Age: a discourse on war and society --- Klavs Randsborg
13.) Hoplite obliteration: the case of the town of Thespiae --- Victor Davis Hanson
14.) The elusive warrior maiden tradition - bearing weapons in Anglo-Saxon society --- Deborah J. Shepherd
15.) Epilogue: the future study of ancient warfare --- John Carman, Anthony Harding
16.) Bibliography
17.) Index

As you can see, there are more than a few articles in the set which are very tempting reads, and there is a lot of work in there by well regarded scholars.

My only complaint thus far, and it is a minor one, is that the article I have read (The origins of warfare in the British Isles --- R. J. Mercer) is misleading in the name. The article is about half a brief mini-history of primitive European warfare, and the other part is mostly dealing with archaeological evidence of early archery in Britain and what sort of information we can plausibly extrapolate from that evidence. It is good information, and I find the article quite useful, but the misleading title irritated me.

I will let you know if I find any unusual gems in the mix of articles.

publicado por An_Fear_Glas às 5:55 pm (EST) em Sep 18, 2008

Hi there,

Thanks for the recommendation. Unfortunately, I could find Food of the Bards available on ABE or Amazon, but I'll certainly keep an eye out. Sounds like a great resource. Any other interesting books you've been reading?

Carrie

publicado por cuffindell às 12:30 pm (EST) em Aug 28, 2008

Thanks for marking me as interesting. I look forward to tracking down your books in Australia.

cheers
Macbeth

publicado por Macbeth às 8:08 pm (EST) em Jun 16, 2008

Hi gwerin, I see we share quite a few titles. I recommend you take a look at 2 of my friend's catalogs: MACBETH & DONOGH, they might have some items of interest as well. Cheers, A

publicado por Ammianus às 3:58 pm (EST) em Jun 12, 2008

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listman...

Very handy lists. I found three promising books that had escaped my attention.

publicado por An_Fear_Glas às 1:24 am (EST) em May 7, 2008

I just noticed that you have e-text versions of your books at Lulu Press! =)

That is excellent. I just ordered one of the two available to replace my print version of it in order to see how well the .pdf is formatted, and it is definitely usable. Thank you for thinking to offer e-text versions. I usually prefer to read fiction on my Tablet PC with Adobe Reader (sitting under trees in parks, of course!), and this will give me an excuse to re-read your historical fiction books.

publicado por An_Fear_Glas às 1:53 pm (EST) em May 5, 2008

You might like this Groups topic. (grin)

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

publicado por An_Fear_Glas às 12:16 pm (EST) em May 3, 2008

£50, mynyffari, tamaid yn ddrud! Diwedd y mis, efallai. Ond pendant.

publicado por Ffred_Clegg às 8:45 am (EST) em Apr 18, 2008

Dwi'n gweld nifer o lyfrau diddorol yn eich llyfrgell - ydy'r un newydd John Koch yn werth ei brynu?

publicado por Ffred_Clegg às 3:15 pm (EST) em Apr 17, 2008