Ok, Taroniah at School is out in ebook – Paperback soon….
Kyron the Bowman will be the next book. Kyron is a contemporary of Taroniah but lives at the other end of the world.
Arturo Sandus book 8 is happening – slowly – I originally had it down for July 1st but it may run a bit behind….. sorry.. Rome wasn’t built in a day..
My favorite meme of the war is Kim Jong-Un going “I not craziest leader in the world now”
I wish there was more I could do…. but at 63 with no military training not even the Ukrainians are that desperate….
I am writing a section in one of the Jason books about an alternate Ukraine to compensate.
On another matter – I promised a chap a signed copy of one of my books some time ago – I lost his address and keep forgetting to contact him – now I can’t fine his email – if the person I am referring to sees this please contact me and I will get the book to you and a bonus one!
Sorry
Still haven’t decided what will follow Arturo 8 – Taroniah 2 or Princess 4 – any votes?
rhodanblog 
Vote for princess then Arturo but anything would be great 😃
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I say Taroniah 2 then Princess 4 then Arturo 9.
Here’s a few ideas for your multiverse alternative history: Duke William the Bastard of Normandy defeated and killed by King Harold Godwinson of England at the battle of Hastings 1066. Atilla the Hun smashes the combined West Roman / Visigoth coalition at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains 541 AD, Flavius Aetius killed alongside King Theodoric in a heroic but doomed last stand.
Timelines where Alexander the Great of Macedonia and Henry V of England lived a long and natural life. A timeline where the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius assumed personal command of the Byzantine army and annihilated the Arab forces at the battle of Yarmouk in 636 – Islam is unable to spread West by the sword and is confined to Arabia.
A timeline where in the period 1850-1900 the Great Powers of Europe + USA carve up Imperial China and Japan between themselves in a ‘Partition of the Orient’.
A timeline where Henry II’s Angevin Empire succeeds in breaking the power of the Capetian Kings of France under a recently crowned Phillip II Augustus during the 1180’s.
A timeline where Fredrick Barbarossa doesn’t drown crossing a river enroute to the Third Crusade and where the Fourth Crusade doesn’t sack Constantinople at the urging of the Doge of Venice.
A timeline where the British government of 18th and early 19th century behaves rationally in times of war, danger and uncertainty: Queen Anne doesn’t dismiss Marlbourough/Goldolphin and negotiate a separate peace without Austria in the Treaty of Utrecht ‘No peace without Spain’; the Admiralty/War Office adequately plans Admiral Edward Vernon’s attack on the Spanish Main in the War of Jenkins’s Ear/War of Austrian Succession, George III doesn’t dismiss the Pitt the Elder/ Newcastle Ministry during the Seven Years War, no separate peace without Fredrick the Great’s Prussia, peace terms include Britain retaining Cuba; Martinique, Guadaloupe and the eastern seaboard of Canada in exchange for returning Manila; Florida and New France etc. Prime Minister Spencer Percival not assassinated in 1807.
appoints
A timeline where Conservative PM John Major loses the 1992 general election. (Hung Parliament, but Labour is the largest party) Minority Labour govt, Neil Kinnock becomes PM and John Smith Chancellor of the Exchequer and Deputy PM. Attempt at devolution to Scotland and Wales via referendum, but as in 1970’s amendment requiring 40% of total electorate to approve is passed. Same result as 70’s – outright rejected in Wales and Scotland yes vote is below 40% of total electorate. Conservative Party replaces John Major as leader with a true-blue Thatcherite Eurosceptic e.g. Nigel Lawson; Cecil Parkinson, Norman Tebbit, Michael Forsyth or Norman Lamont. (I personally favour Forsyth or Lamont) New leader appoints Michael Portillo as Shadow Chancellor, retains Douglas Hurd as Shadow Foreign Secretary, appoints Michael Heseltine as Shadow Deputy PM and Shadow Home Secretary, Ken Clarke as Shadow Defence Secretary. Lamont or Forsyth as Party Chairman.
After Black Wednesday, the House of Commons refuses to ratify the Maastricht Treaty on European Union, then a motion to hold a national referendum on the the Treaty passes. British electorate subsequently vote against ratification by 60-40 ish margin, thereby killing the Treaty which formally created the EU.
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damn – lots there – could combine Pitt’s noon-dismissal with a different approach to the America’s to produce the result I already have in book 3 (?) where America never revolted and instead has parliamentarians and local nobilty……
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Well what can I say? I’m an appreciative student of history.
I suggested altering the territorial exchanges because the Earl of Bute showed far too much appeasement and reckless generosity. The French in part calculated the loss of New France would encourage rebellion in the 13 colonies because of the absence of a credible threat to security. Also any treasury can never have too much white gold flowing into your coffers. Perhaps have Pitt the Elder pass the Stamp Act in wartime – Pitt the Younger created income tax for the wars against revolutionary France. Maybe a more gradualist Proclamation Line – creeping westward expansion. Don’t think you could realistically change the 1772 Somerset vs Stewart court case on slavery – therefore the motivations of plantation owners. Replace George Germain as Secretary of State for the Colonies with someone sympathetic to legitimate colonial grievances like Edmund Burke. Germain could in turn stay in the army and he stationed in North America in place of Edward Braddock during the war.
Here’s a couple of more ideas for you Peter:
A WW2 timeline where the Western Allies declare war on the Soviet Union for invading Poland and then attacking Finland in the Winter War. WW2 becomes a 3-way fight between the Allies; the Axis and the Soviet Union. Have the Japanese Army strike Northwest into Siberia (after turning the Soviet spy Richard Sorge) – opening a second front in Operation Barbarossa, crucially BEFORE the Japanese Navy strike South and East into the Indo-Pacific and attack Pearl Harbour.
A WW2 that follows as history records. Then, tensions in Europe cause relations between the Allies and the Soviets to slide into a continuation of the war in a new phase of fighting after the final surrender of Imperial Japan. No immediate threat of more nuclear weapons being used (President Truman and the Americans were bluffing when they threatened to keep dropping atomic bombs on Japanese cities.)
Post-war scenario where the continental Europeans accept Britain’s ‘Plan G’ of a European free trade area. This allows post-war Britain to simultaneously create a new Commonwealth-wide or Anglosphere free trade agreement, plus an Anglosphere Association (CANZUK in the 50s) + USA. Britain becomes a giant Entrepôt to the European continent.
(Many people in Britain including me have always thought we shamefully and disgracefully betrayed you, our family, our kith and kin, those who stood by us shoulder to shoulder twice in a generation during the darkest and most dire prospects for freedom liberty and democracy, through our membership of the EU.)
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more intersesting ideas….I already have a world where the Commies took over Germany instead of the Nazis – in that world there was no WW2 and the depression lasted much longer technology lags way behind what we have by 2020+ (approx early 50’s) and then the germans take france…. again
in another with a similar scenario the commie russians and the commie germans combine to attack England, after taking over the rest of europe – this time with late 6t0’s early 70’s tech….
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Here’s some more: Jack Kennedy only suffers a minor wound from Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas 1963. 1964 Election JFK/LBJ vs Barry Goldwater/Nelson Rockefeller. JFK wins re-election, but only narrowly instead of a blowout. Vietnam War – Does JFK escalate like LBJ, or phase out American troops in favour of air support and training? Civil Rights Act?
1956 Suez Crisis: PM Anthony Eden keeps U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower in the loop regarding the planned military action by Britain, France and Israel against Egypt. This wins Washington D.C.’s tacit approval for attempting to topple General Nasser and reclaim the Suez Canal.
Eurozone crisis: Greek PM Alexis Tsipras doesn’t cave-in to the demands of the EU Commission, the ECB and the IMF. He instead sides with his Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and others in Syriza. The subsequently resulting firestorm causes Greece; Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy to leave the eurozone and revert to their original national currencies.
Alternative American Civil War: The Union fails to capture New Orleans and Corinth. At the battle of Hampton Roads, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia fires a miracle ‘Golden Shell’ that penetrates the armour, hitting and then blows up the USS Monitor’s magazine. General Albert Sidney Johnston is not killed at the Battle of Shiloh. At the Battle of Seven Pines General Joseph Johnston succeeds in his planned coordinated attack, but is still seriously wounded. The isolated 2 Union Army Corps South of the Chickahominy River are very badly mauled. General Robert E. Lee is not quite as aggressive in the following Seven Days Battles – lower confederate casualties. The Confederate breakout at Fort Donelson is a complete success. Lee is able to concentrate his entire army in time before the Battle of Antietam, so is able to hold off General George B McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Mutual withdrawal afterwards. No Emancipation Proclomation. General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson is not killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Lee is able to use J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry to full effect during the Gettysburg campaign. The Confederacy respects the neutrality of the state of Kentucky. Lord Palmerston govt regards the Trent affair as an act of war by the Lincoln administration and grievously insulting affront to national honour. Britain and France increase support for the Confederacy.
Alternative English Civil War: Prince Rupert of the Rhine wins the Battle of Marston Moor, securing Northern England for the Royalist cause. The Cavaliers are then able to fight the Parliamentarian New Model Army to a stalemate at the Battle of Naseby.
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The hard part is taking an event like any of those and extrapolating forward to 2020+
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some more good ones!
Keep them coming 🙂
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Vote for Taroniah.
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Vote Taroniah please
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I preferred Taroniah 2. However, second book in series was not about Taroniah, so prefer third or even fout book in this series next.
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you misunderstood the question – I was asking what should follow Arturo 8 (To the Stars) which doesn’t come out until July (hopefully) -and the book after that will indeed be Taroniah at War followed by Kyron the Swordsman and then The Princess and the Travelers
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