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I'm an author of historical fiction (Early English/Saxon, Vikings and the British Isles as a whole before the Norman Conquest, as well as five 20th-century historical mysteries) and historical romantasy.

I was born in the old Mercian kingdom at some point since 1066. Raised in the shadow of a strange little building, told from a very young age that it housed the bones of long-dead kings of Mercia and that our garden was littered with old pieces of pottery from a long-ago battle, it's little wonder that my curiosity in Early England ran riot. I can only blame my parents!

I like to write. You've been warned!

Not sure where to start your journey through Saxon/Early England? The Dark Ages trilogy will take readers back to the very beginnings of Sa
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“I don’t wish to be left behind by the man who made me the woman I am today. No, if I could, I’d follow him on his journey and take pride and pleasure in doing so.”
― M.J. Porter, The First Queen: An incredibly gripping historical romance featuring England's first crowned queen

“Leofric absorbed that surprised that Olaf was as aware as he was of the difference between the Vikings and the English.”
― M.J. Porter, The Earl of Mercia: England: The Second Viking Age

“I need men I can rely on and who don’t change tack with the wind.”
― M.J. Porter, Cnut: The Conqueror

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“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
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