My published art or writing.
Here’s a fact about Muldoon’s fiction from a reviewer’s thoughts. This one is for Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling, and it blessed my author’s heart to read this. I hope it blesses yours as well and helps you consider leaving a review of your own.
Thanks, Jeannine!
It’s time to welcome my precious book baby!
Muldoon’s Misfortunes is up for PREORDER on my publisher’s website! This is a first for me, because I self-published my novella.
Another first. Click on this link to Celebrate Lit’s website where my book is proudly posted.
http://www.celebratelitpublishing.com/posts/book/muldoons-misfortunes/
What’s a preorder? Mine means it’s a discounted $2.99 eBook with exclusive gifts for purchasers. An online flipbook of quotes from the book, and a handmade postcard by me depicting the first chapter.
The print edition costs more and will also be available on Amazon and other booksellers when it launches on 7/16/24. I don’t have a cost for that yet.
More updates will follow…
Here’s a chance to build up that spring TBR pile to read on your porch, on a picnic, or in your other cozy reading spot. Enter as much as you’d like 4/15 through 4/21 by midnight.
https://promosimple.com/ps/29ac1/2024-april-showers
You could win 25 Christian books or the grand prize of a $500 Amazon card to buy more books. *My gift is Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling.
This is Orla Muldoon, Mick’s younger sister of two. There are six children, and two others deceased in this large family. Orla insisted she wants her own story, Book 2 launching in 2025. What happened to her face? You’ll find out in 2025.
I’m writing and researching it now, and boy does she have a lot to say about her life and what she wants. We catch up with her story when she is 15-years old. I’d love to tell more of her childhood in her book but there isn’t enough time or pages allowed in historical fiction.
In Muldoon’s Misfortunes, launching in July of 2024, Orla’s determined wish for a radically different life is the catalyst for influencing half her siblings into extreme relocation. They risk everything by leaving Ireland to venture across the Atlantic in 1866. Secretly, all the Muldoons desired hope, and I can give it to the brave ones.
Reminder for all you avid readers: March 24th is the last day to enter the Hop Into Spring giveaway, by midnight!
My eBook, Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: A Novella, is the prelude to my Those Resilient Muldoons series. Here’s a link to Draft2Digital for all readers other than Kindle or Apple Books. You can see my book in the image, middle of 2nd row.
I hope one of you wins!
Shawna McGann is Mick’s love interest in Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: a Novella, a self-published prelude to Book 1 which is launching in July of 2024.
This portion of Mick Muldoon’s life is after he emigrates from County Kerry, Ireland beginning in 1867, and includes the years he lived in Minnesota up to 1874. Mick finally found a place where his hopes for a better life could be fulfilled.
The Irish were a prolific emigration population but not a popular one. There were many in America who intensely disliked the Irish Catholics, and didn’t understand the horrific poverty and famine they had escaped. They might not take part in the active persecution, or malicious slander but unfair beliefs about the Irish people persisted for many years. As in modern times, emigrant groups tended to join those who understood their experiences, backgrounds, or class distinctions.
About the Irish Muldoon family book series: Those Resilient Muldoons. Book 1 launches in July 2024.
Ed Muldoon is Mick’s older brother who appears in the prelude novella currently published: Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling, and in Book 1 and 2 of 3. He’s intense, bitter, and his siblings call him a bully. His humor isn’t funny.
The best thing he’s ever done is rescue Mick from the New York City tenement slums and return him to farming in rural Minnesota. Ed is a gambler, not a farmer, but he tries his best to make restitution for his treatment of Mick. Until there’s nothing he can do.
Meet Mick Muldoon. Main character in Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: a Novella launched in 2023, and in the 2024 July launch of Muldoon’s Misfortunes.
He’s an Irish widower who emigrates to NYC in 1867 searching with all the hope he can muster for a new life.
As Mick approached the Emigrant Landing Depot of Castle Gardens, he said, “Well, bless me soul. ’Tis well built, aye? Solid. What do you suppose that tower—look there. Are those cannons? They beat the English with them, no doubt.”
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My generous publisher, Celebrate Lit, is hosting We Love Our Readers February giveaway. You could win 45 books or a $500 Amazon gift card!
They also do this separately for their authors—I’ve known two of them. Isn’t that lovely? *You can see my gift, second row, left side. The giveaway link is LIVE Sunday evening and goes through 2/18.
https://promosimple.com/ps/28cdb/2024-we-love-our-readers-multi-author
Enter each day as many times as you’d like to increase your chances. I hope one of you wins!
The reviewer posted on her blog:
We live on a farm and enjoy our horses, goats (Alpine milk goats), Jersey dairy cows, Corriedale sheep, chickens, guineas, turkeys, geese, cats, and dogs. On our farm, we’re up with the sun milking. Our sheep are wool sheep, and they get sheared once a year; they are also meat sheep, so we do enjoy lamb on our menu. We love our free-range chickens and get plenty of eggs to help keep us healthy. Our horses are used for our hobby of reenacting the Civil War. We raise Quarter horses and have an Arabian as well.
For Him and My Family to read the entire review…
E.V. Sparrow 