An Author Male Speculates On His Readership Mostly Female By C C Humphreys
An Author (Manly) Speculates on his Movement (Principally Woman)
Whereas the initials 'CC' possibly will put on the air a adjunct of either sex (like JK or, all right, EL) I am, in fact, a man. Yet judging from my mailbag, supreme of my readers originate to be women. No matter what another publishers trying to sale me with gung ho covers featuring action heroes, it is the women who log, who fit supreme captivated by my characters and their journeys.
I am very happy about that - women buy supreme books in the wake of all. But I don't brazenly slant my books to one or far afield gender. I am sentient in lots aspects of life - and that encompasses both swordplay and love making, inoperative with politics of house of worship and license. Best of all, at the same time as, I am sentient in people - striving, smoothly criticize, some finally triumphing - at the same time as the rejoice may not be the one they unusually hunted.
It may power everything to do with the fact that I both love and be in awe of women and so produce strong female characters. Onwards times, with a few illustration exceptions, are subject by men - far afield men wrote community histories in the wake of all. But anyway the limitations placed on them over the ages, women overcame them to keep an eye on their quests, to power very good adventures. Many were compelled by mess to falter and win. Many assumed in causes as safely as did the men of their times.
Best of my male characters show in relationship to a woman - conceivably foster than on, and smoothly that is the connect. In any of my novels, intertwined in the busy look at of probing and dogfight, is a relationship question that is smoothly as fundamental as any political or military ones, and needs as strong a resolution. In 'A Ready Called Armageddon' I examine a question that has increasingly sentient me: is it not obligatory to love two people, perfectly, brilliantly, at the identical time? Gregoras, the unexpected result hero at the novel's sample, is raggedy with his first love, the thaw and devout Sofia and the new invigorate of the weird sorceress Leilah. How he resolves that is ably related up with the fall of the civil and of alike magnitude by the end.
Perhaps that's why so lots of my readers are female -and why this book operates on lots uncharacteristic levels. Spoiler alert: Constantinople cataract. But the relationship questions viewpoint in doubt till the very end. And the battles that all my characters suffer part in are not just fights for their own sake. They are happenings that put people we know in great stake - and may prevent them, or aid them, in resolving the greatest requirements of their hearts.
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You know how the surround of Constantinople ends. It's on paper in the history books.
But what was the human toll? For example are the stories of the people involved? How did they experience this epic dogfight that tore unlikely cultures, religions, and families?
That is what you will catch in author C.C. Humphreys' new innovative "A Ready CALLED ARMAGEDDON: CONSTANTINOPLE 1453" (ISBN 9781402272493; SEPTEMBER 2012; 25.99; Fiction; Hardcover).
The go out with is 1453. The civil of Constantinople is at the core of a fight of civilizations. For the Greeks, it's their home that has withstood attacks for centuries in reverse forceful fortifications. For the Turks, it's the exceptional they power used up centuries trying to win.
Humphreys sort a wide cast of characters from both sides of the barrier in "A Ready Called Armageddon". At the core are Gregoras and Theon. Bend in two brothers from Constantinople. One an exiled mercenary who has vowed never to area. The far afield a increasing judicious be included thrashing a secret of deceitfulness. A woman who has captured one's sample, but is married to the far afield as a prize. Two brothers agitation for majesty and redemption.
"A Ready Called Armageddon" also imagines what the dogfight made-up for two real-life former figures-Emperor Constantine and Mehmet, sultan of the Turks. Both men agitation for the gods they meditate in. Both sides tasting triumph and tip over previously the vital showdown. In the middle of community agitation is invent John Consent, a Scotsman brought to Constantinople to expand the appearance for Greek fire, and Achmed, a Turkish planter lured into service by the upshot of the plunder of war. Lurking in the darkness is Leilah, a sorceress who plays a capricious set with both sides.
From sword fights with pirates to explosions in tunnels and towers, secret worry in the critic camp, and the stanch and first-rate dilemmas of war, Humphreys next again uses his significant status and scholarly research to hover fabrication into fact.
Nearly THE AUTHOR-Chris (C.C.) Humphreys is an dancer, playwright, battle choreographer, and essayist. He has acted all over the world and appeared on stages ranging from London's West End to Hollywood's Twentieth Century Fox. As C.C. Humphreys, Chris has on paper six former fabrication novels. The first, "The French Slayer", told the fairy-tale of the man who killed Anne Boleyn and was runner up for the CWA Foil Penknife for Thrillers 2002. Its sequel, "Blood Ties", was a bestseller in Canada. Having played Jack Sure, he wrap the character and has on paper three books on this "007 of the 1770s"-"Jack Sure", "The Blooding of Jack Sure," and "Sure Honour"-short behind for the 2007 Evergreen Steal by the Ontario Records Liaison. He is also the author of "Vlad: The Go by Response" (Sourcebooks, 2011). For foster information, picture www.cchumphreys.com.
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