by Roseanna White | Apr 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Circle of Spies week rolls on!
Today I have a guest post with on a friend’s blog about what real freedom is, and how it comes into play in the book:
http://www.racheldmuller.com/blog.html
I’m visiting with Ralene Burke and talking about how writing is my ministry–and a reminder that when we’re obeying the Lord, that is itself enough.
http://www.raleneburke.com/2014/04/enough-by-roseanna-m-white/
And don’t forget to read my first interview about Circle of Spies on Southern Fried Fiction!
http://www.anemulligan.com/2014/04/from-spies-to-downton-abbey-meet.html
And of course, we still have the giveaway going on here, for the 3-pearl Culper necklace and/or a complete, signed set of the Culper Ring Series!
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by Roseanna White | Apr 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s release day! Woot woot!
White’s Culper Ring historical spy series keeps getting better. This
installment’s intricate plot, terrific twists and heart-stopping
intrigue, as well as the heroine’s deeply moving journey of faith, grace
and redemption, create a memorable book to be devoured and cherished.
~ RT Reviews, 4 1/2 Star TOP PICK
To kick things off, today I have an interview up on Ane Mulligan’s Southern-Fried Fiction blog! Marietta, my Maryland-born Southern belle, ought to feel right at home. =)
And we’re only six days away from the premier of Turn too! Culper Ring fans should definitely tune in. And hopefully Turn fans will also love Ring of Secrets.
If you haven’t seen anything about Turn yet, check out the trailer:
And while you’re in the mood for trailers, don’t forget to watch the one Harvest House created for Circle of Spies!
Now, of course, the really fun stuff. The giveaway! Obviously I have to give away a complete set of signed books. =) But I also thought it would be fun to give away the pearl necklace that is in each of the books. Readers of the series might remember where it got its start…
This one isn’t identical–it’s on silver instead of gold–but it’s the closest I could find. =) So feel free to enter through the Rafflecopter giveaway! If you’re only interested in one of the prizes, specify which. If you’d like be entered for both, that’s totally cool too.
#1
3-Pearl Neckalce
similar to the one featured in the Culper Ring Series
#2
The complete, signed Culper Ring Series
Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is fast approaching,
and either of these prizes would make excellent gifts,
even if you already have some of the books!
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by Roseanna White | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow is the official release of Circle of Spies!
The paperback has actually been available online for a while now, but the digital will now, finally be out too! Woot!
So this week, in lieu of normal posts, it’s going to be a
Circle of Spies Fest. =) With some attention, too, going to the also-just-released book by one of my good friends, Naomi Rawlings, whose book also has a spy element! How fun it
that?
I’ll have a few guest posts up throughout the week that I’ll provide links to as they appear, culminating in one of Colonial Quills’ famous online tea parties–where it’ll share the stage with AMC’s new TV show,
Turn. So, so kind of one of my favorite channels to release their Culper Ring series the same week my final book in
my Culper Ring Series releases, isn’t it? Readers of
Ring of Secrets will see a few similarities between the show and my book, I expect.
And if anyone would like to help me promote this happy coincident, I would greatly appreciate any post on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, or blogs that have my book titles and their show title in the same post! Putting viral marketing to work! 😉
And of course, we’re celebrating with a giveaway! There are 2 prizes – just comment telling me which one (or both) you’d like to be entered for. This giveaway will also be running at the tea party on Friday.
#1
3-Pearl Neckalce
similar to the one featured in the Culper Ring Series
#2
The complete, signed Culper Ring Series
Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is fast approaching,
and either of these prizes would make excellent gifts,
even if you already have some of the books!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
by Roseanna White | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Well, the contest for the 5 signed copies of Circle of Spies is finished, and I just selected my winners! (Or rather, Random.org did it for me.) Big congrats to:
Janella
Amy Putney
Caitlyn Santi
AmyC
Andrea Cox
I’ll be sending y’all emails in just a few minutes!
And in case anyone’s curious as to what I decided to use when I sign these books…it isn’t exactly what anyone suggested, largely because I have very, very little space to sign in this one, so had to keep it very short. But it’s similar to a few suggestions. These 5 winners will be reading
May you never forget His promises
inside their books. =) Thanks so much to all who offered suggestions and entered to win! I really love this story, and I hope you all do too!
by Roseanna White | Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve been getting a lot of messages from excited folks who want to make sure I know that AMC is launching a series about the Culper Ring. So I thought I’d take a day to say:
Oh yes. I know. Didn’t you hear me squealing?? =)
Launching Sunday, April 6 on AMC,
Turn looks like it will be a dramatic, action-packed peek into the Revolution and American’s first spy ring. And yes, I’m thrilled. I love that I get to watch the Culpers come to life. I love that they’re starting with Abraham Woodhull’s story
. I love that it’s based on
Washington’s Spies by Alexander Rose, the same book I used as my primary source for
Ring of Secrets. I love that the Culper Ring is getting attention. And you know, if folks happen to go Amazon and do a search for it, that would be okay too, LOL. Cuz get what will pop up? 😉
From all the trailers I so eagerly watch, Turn begins where the Culper Ring began–with Tallmadge recruiting Abraham Woodhull, on Long Island. It looks like this first season, anyway, will focus on his story. It’s fitting, because that’s really how the Culpers got their start. Woodhull is arrested by the Patriots for smuggling produce into New York City–but one of the officers is Benjamin Tallmadge, who grew up with Woodhull and who’s looking for a dependable source of information for General Washington. So the question put to Woodhull is simple, but anything but easy: in exchange for his freedom, will he become a spy?
In
Ring of Secrets, I begin my story later in the war, a couple years after these first events that
Turn will cover this season. And though Woodhull is mentioned, he was actually sick through the months I cover, and basically out of commission. By that point in time, much of the weight of the Ring rested on the rather-unstable shoulders of Robert Townsend. I assume Rob will come into the TV series in later seasons, but he wasn’t even known to the people at that early date. So it’ll be fun to see how they move the plot along until where “my” characters enter. I can’t wait!
I, of course, write a different kind of historical. My method has always been to use fictional characters to fill in the blanks of history, to interact with those historical figures. So while I do indeed have the same people Turn will have–Woodhull and Tallmadge and Townsend and Brewster and Roe–my focus is on people I made up. Isaac Fairchild, a British officer. Bennet Lane, a Yale professor out to find the Patriot spy in the City of New York.
And Winter Reeves. Winter is my Culper. We know they had operatives they never named, sources who remained completely anonymous. And though there has been a fair amount of buzz over the years about a female operative, the historical one wasn’t what I was looking for. I wanted someone completely unknown. Not speculated about. With no facts to tie me down, LOL. So I created Winter. A childhood friend of Robert Townsend, thrust into the elite society of Loyalist New York. A Patriot who no one knows is a Patriot.
You can bet I’m going to be tuning into Turn–and I’ll probably talk about it again after I’ve got an episode or three under my belt. I’ll share my opinions, my expertise (ahem, LOL), and my thoughts on where the series might be going. And I’ll be glad that my series ties in but is unique. That my focus was on a different aspect of the Ring, and on my own imagination. And hey, when their series ends at the close of the War and everyone wonders what might have become of the Culpers afterward…well, they can just pick up my books. 😉
History says they probably disbanded. But you never know, right? They could have kept the group together. They could have kept working to hold their country together. And they might just have looked like this.
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.