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The way in which younger women were expected to use their sexuality to seduce older men in order to get on in life, was one of the major themes which came across in my research for Carnival of Hope. In her anthropological study of race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio favela, entitled Laughter Out of Place, Donna M. Goldstein highlighted some aspects of this:

Women think the best chance of getting on in life is to seduce older, richer, usually white men, referred to as Coroas.
Women ris...

To coincide with an Ereader News Today Promotion on 21 October 2014, my historical saga Road to Rebellion will be on sale at for $0.99 ($4.99) until 27 October 2014. Happy Reading.

Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to the 7 winners of the Road to Rebellion giveaway who reside in Latvia, Romania, Holland, Estonia, Indonesia, and Ireland. Your books have been ordered and should reach you soon. Happy Reading.

Road to Rebellion, my latest novel, is a historical saga set in Jamaica during the 18th Century. One of the main characters is Charles Morley, a sugar planter who finds himself having to mediate the confrontations between his slave lover and his wife. But Charles is also a moderator in disputes between other slaves and their owners, for the Maroons who live in the mountains, and amongst the planters who struggle to find the right balance between a harsh or humane form of slavery.

As such, it f...

Road to Rebellion is a historical novel that had been living in my head for many years, more than fifteen at least. I was due to start writing it in September 2013, but became distracted by another story which I wrote but have not yet published.

Road to Rebellion is the story of a slave and her mistress who each raise a son for the master of a Jamaican plantation and struggle for supremacy on the Morley Estate. This brings them, and eventually their sons, to a confrontation as destructive as t...

In the past, I have developed and written my blog posts about my novels after the novel has been written. This has involved me going back over parts of the novel and my notes, trying to find things to write about. At times this approach has been quite frustrating and time consuming.

This time around, I have been identifying ideas for future blog posts as I write my current novel, a historical family saga with a dose of colonial romance and a slave rebellion, set in the West Indies, and it has...

Kath Middleton’s is an accomplished and distinctive voice in literature. I find it hard to believe this is her first fuller length book, as it read like someone who has been writing this form of fiction for years.

We follow a young Lady Romelda, given in marriage by her parents—who are briefly but tragically blinded by greed—to a despicable Lord, who makes their lives hell. But as with the best of baddies, he will get his just deserts in an innovative way.

With its medieval setting, the book ha...

I try not to lock myself away, cutting myself off from outside influences as I write what I hope will be my next blockbuster. That can lead to some interesting discoveries.

While writing a novel, I think it’s a good idea to take notice of what’s going on around me, because if my theme is as universal as I think it is, I am bound to see or hear something which helps me to strengthen an element in my story. This was the case with the character flaw for Tomas in my novel Carnival of Hope, and als...

Auto gives a thrilling and fascinating insight into the gadget driven, networking world that we are building, where humans no longer communicate with each other, but to each other through their automated devices. This is a world where all our movements, purchases, and our most intimate secrets are stored online, to be shared with our friend Circles by automated software, so that there is a total removal of privacy. But someone is out to corrupt and destroy this autoed world.

There are various...