Just four weeks until Burke and the War of 1812 is published. You can already pre-order it here: Burke and the War of 1812.
I’m getting quite excited. We’re having a party and there will be various references to burning down the White House. I think that’s the only thing most Brits know about the War of 1812 and most don’t even know that. Mention ‘war’ and ‘1812’ in the same sentence and generally people think Tchaikovsky, and Napoleon invading Russia. In fact, the War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Canada (then part of the British Empire). A lot of military enthusiasts like to reenact the battles. I never had President Trump down as a historical reenactor, but apparently he is seriously considering restaging the 1812 conflict, so the book has a contemporary relevance that most of my novels set in Napoleonic times lack. I’m hoping people will notice it and that I may even see a significant uptick in sales in Canada. What the response of my American readers will be, I’m not at all sure.
Anyway, here’s the cover. I hope you like it.
In other news, it turns out that eight of my books are amongst those stolen by Meta to train their AI. I will probably be writing more about this once Burke and the War of 1812 is out and my mind moves on to other things. For now I will just say that Meta obviously has excellent taste and recommend that you read the books that they have stolen from me rather than wait for a robot to mix them in with lots of other stolen books and make something which I’m prejudiced enough to suggest won’t be that terribly good.
Here’s the list. Click on the links to be taken to Amazon to buy them:
