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M.J. Colewood

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The United Kingdom

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http://www.chesterbentleymysteries.com

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Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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September 2016

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You may be surprised to learn that MJ Colewood is in fact not one, but two authors. Mark Colenutt and Jacqueline Wood are friends, who after years of talking about books finally decided to join forces and write The Last Treasure of Ancient England.

Mark’s inspiration for the book came from his own boarding school days in the 1980’s at Buckland House School in Devon. The old manor house captured his imagination as did his History teacher who explained its historical connections. Mark became a teacher himself and later obtained an MA in History. He often entertains his pupils with tales of boarding school life and as his mind has wandered back to Buckland House over the years, the idea for the book has grown.

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The following post was written as a comment to a thread for writers who are frustrated at making little or no sales:

Of course, if in the US over 300,000 new titles are published and revised each year and in the UK it's over 180,000 then your book will come out and compete against all of them. And that was just that year's batch, not to mention all World Literature preceding it that is also vying f Read more of this blog post »

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Quotes by M.J. Colewood (?)

“History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..”
― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient England

tags: adventure, boarding-school, england, ghost, hastings, historical, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt

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“Clear vision holds the key.”
― M.J. Colewood

tags: adventure, boarding-school, england, ghost, hastings, historical, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt

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“Let the game be ventured!”
― M.J. Colewood

tags: adventure, boarding-school, england, ghost, hastings, historical, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt

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“History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..”
― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient England

tags: adventure, boarding-school, england, ghost, hastings, historical, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt

3 likes

“Let the game be ventured!”
― M.J. Colewood

tags: adventure, boarding-school, england, ghost, hastings, historical, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt

0 likes

“Clear vision holds the key.”
― M.J. Colewood

tags: adventure, boarding-school, england, ghost, hastings, historical, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt

1 likes

“A horse! A horse! My Dukedom for a horse!" (Duke William at Hastings - The Last Treasure of Ancient England)”
― M.J. Colewood, The Last Treasure of Ancient England

tags: boarding-school, england, ghost-story, hastings, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt, william-thhe-conqueror

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“Don’t forget young Chester, ‘The past is a foreign country’, but boarding school will be another world, my boy!”
― M.J. Colewood

tags: boarding-shool, ghost-story, harold-godwinson, hastings, medieval-england, the-battle-of-hastings, treasure-hunt, william-the-conqueror

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