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The two things I most appreciated about Tellwell were the  editing service and my Customer Support / Project Manager. The editor assigned to me was perfect. He had marvelous command of the written word, great editing skills and was attuned to what I what we were writing on somewhat complex subject matter.  My  Customer Support / Project Manager was always there to help me with both technical and administrative difficulties. He was fantastic.

I recommend Tellwell for those who are wanting to self-publish.  My project manager was beyond amazing with great time punctuation and kindness that was unmatchable. With the added bonus of great patience and the understanding on delivering what the author is asking for.  Even other departments within Tellwell Publishing have exceptional service and quality you want in a team that is working for you! Overall, Tellwell Publishing checked all my boxes for what I was expecting and a little bit more! 

As a new publisher I was lost and confused as to the whole process of getting my book published. I got all my questions answered in terms that I could understand. When I had questions or issues they were handled immediately and I always get excellent results. My Tellwell experience was amazing and I would tell anyone who is thinking about or writing a book that they couldn’t do any better than Tellwell. I am currently writing a second book and I will be using Tellwell services again. Great job everyone.

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Tellwell was recommended to me by a good friend who authored a children’s book. She led me to Tellwell, and told me how easy the process of getting her work published was for her. Not only was I sold, I experienced the same thing. My project manager and marketing manager were both EXTREMELY helpful, and made sure I was informed of my book’s progress to distribution every step of the way. 

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The Boy from the Sea – by Garrett Carr

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The Boy From the Sea by Garrett Carr: Book 15 of #20BOS26
Garrett Carr’s debut adult novel is big-hearted and welcoming, opening with a collective voice that immediately sets the tone for the rest of the novel.
We were a hardy people, raised facing the Atlantic. A few thousand men, women and children, clinging to the coast and trying to stay dry. Our town wasn’t just a town, it was a logic and a fate.
The story is told through the “we” of the fishing town of Killybegs in Donegal, and it works brilliantly, filled with lovely, unforced colloquialisms that feel completely true to the place and the people.

#Irish; #Novel; #Atlantic; #Killbegs, #Donegal – #storybook, #Literature;

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Irish Literature Novels….

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Irish Lit News: June Edition
NEW IRISH NOVELS PUBLISHED IN JUNE

Niamh Campbell – Make Strange (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Patrick Freyne – Experts in a Dying Field (Penguin)

Maggie O’Farrell – Land (Tinder Press)

R.P. O’Donnell – All The Old Clocks (New Island Books)

Keith Ridgeway – Dooneen (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Colin Morgan – The Ballad of Ronan McCoy (HQ)

Andrew Meehan – Hey Man (Muswell Press)

Dermot Bolger – The Journey Home (Penguin Books)

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Who really was Robin Hood? the Legend

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Who was Robin Hood?

Although there has been plenty of speculation about an actual Robin Hood, historians largely agree that there was no single, living person behind the character, just a vastly unequal society of wealthy landowners and impoverished peasants that inspired his creation. The stories began as an oral tradition in the 12th Century, but the first written accounts didn’t arrive until two centuries later, in ballads that showed him as a celebrated figure even then.

In those first written accounts, he wasn’t the noble Sir Robin of Locksley as later versions made him. He wasn’t noble at all, but a yeoman, a rung above a peasant. There was no Maid Marian in the story until the 16th Century. And while he was perfectly nice to the poor, helping them was not his main purpose. His enemies were the corrupt clergy and the land-owning nobles who took advantage of their underlings.

In an afterword to her revisionist novel, The Traitor of Sherwood Forest (2025), medieval historian Amy S Kaufman describes the Robin Hood of the early legends as “a morally grey medieval trickster,” and a “violent, irreverent rogue”. Disney was right about one thing: the first ballads suggest that Robin was as sly as a fox.

A major change in the story came in the 16th Century. King Henry VIII was a fan and sometimes dressed up as Robin Hood. During the reign of the monarch who split from the Catholic Church, Robin’s devotion to the Virgin Mary vanished from the legend.

As the upper classes embraced him, in influential chronicles of the time the character no longer hated the nobility, but became noble himself. Positioned as a morally upright nobleman battling his disreputable equals, he stopped questioning the power structure of society. He was enlisted to help the good King Richard return to the throne that had been usurped by his evil brother, Prince John, a trope that persists through Disney’s depiction of John as a greedy, power-hungry lion.

WHERE IS SHERWOOD FOREST?

Sherwood Forest is a famous Royal Forest and National Nature Reserve located in Nottinghamshire, England. Centered around the village of Edwinstowe, the reserve is roughly 17 miles (27 km) north of Nottingham and 28 miles (45 km) south of Sheffield. [1, 2]

The forest covers an area of about 1,045 acres (424 hectares) and is known worldwide for its historical links to the legendary outlaw, Robin Hood. If you are planning to visit, here are a few key details about the area:

The Major Oak: This is the most famous tree in the forest, estimated to be around 800 to 1,000 years old. According to local folklore, it served as the main hideout for Robin Hood and his band of merry men.

Source – https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260616-the-dark-violent-medieval-origins-of-robin-hood

#Robin Hood; #Legend; #reality; #power Struggle; #Corrupt #Clergy and #Landownders; #Sherwood Forest; #Literature;

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Hamlet – to Be or Not to Be – Quote

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There are three main copies of Hamlet: the First Quarto, also known as the “Bad Quarto”, published in 1603; the Second Quarto, or “Good Quarto” of 1604; and the version included in the First Folio, published in 1623. These texts are commonly abbreviated Q1, Q2 and F1.

Three additional early texts are known, John Smethwick‘s Q3, Q4, and Q5 (1611–37); these are regarded as reprints of Q2 with some alterations.

This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling, punctuation, and five common emendations introduced from the Second (“Good”) Quarto (italicised).[1]

TO BE OR NOT TO BE – HAMLET QUOTE

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life:
For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
The Oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, [F: poore]
The pangs of despised Love, the law’s delay, [F: dispriz’d]
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear, [F: these Fardels]
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of Resolution
Is sicklied o’er, with the pale cast of Thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment, [F: pith]
With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away]
And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Hamlet. (Act III scene 1)

 “To Be Or Not To Be” The Soliloquy

Translation into modern English: – by William Bertrand

The question is: is it better to be alive or dead?

Is it nobler to put up with all the nasty things that luck throws your way, or to fight against all those troubles by simply putting an end to them once and for all?

Dying, sleeping—that’s all dying is—a sleep that ends all the heartache and shocks that life on earth gives us—that’s an achievement to wish for.

To die, to sleep—to sleep, maybe to dream. Ah, but there’s the catch: in death’s sleep who knows what kind of dreams might come, after we’ve put the noise and commotion of life behind us.

That’s certainly something to worry about. That’s the consideration that makes us stretch out our sufferings so long.

After all, who would put up with all life’s humiliations—the abuse from superiors, the insults of arrogant men, the pangs of unrequited love, the inefficiency of the legal system, the rudeness of people in office, and the mistreatment good people have to take from bad—when you could simply take out your knife and call it quits?

Who would choose to grunt and sweat through an exhausting life, unless they were afraid of something dreadful after death, the undiscovered country from which no visitor returns, which we wonder about without getting any answers from and which makes us stick to the evils we know rather than rush off to seek the ones we don’t?

Fear of death makes us all cowards, and our natural boldness becomes weak with too much thinking.

Actions that should be carried out at once get misdirected, and stop being actions at all. (https://williambertrand.fr/to-be-or-not-to-be-by-william-shakespeare/)

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History of the Metis Nation

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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans

Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts.

The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide.

After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.

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In 1993, the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) was established through the will of Métis people and Métis communities coming together throughout Ontario to create a Métis-specific governance structure. Prior to 1993, Métis had been involved in pan-Indigenous lobby groups and organizations. The MNO was not created to represent all individuals and communities that claim to be Métis, but those individuals and communities that are a part of the Métis Nation.

https://archive.org/details/metisnation-self-government

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