Joyce DiPastena dreamed of green medieval forests while growing up in the dusty copper mining town of Kearny, Arizona. She filled her medieval hunger by reading the books of Thomas B. Costain (where she fell in love with King Henry II of England), and later by attending the University of Arizona where she graduated with a degree in history, specializing in the Middle Ages. The university was also where she completed her first full-length novel…set, of course, in medieval England. Later, her fascination with Henry II led her to expand her research horizons to the far reaches of his “Angevin Empire” in France, which became the setting of her first published novel, Loyalty’s Web (a 2007 Whitney Award Finalist).
3 Replies to “Courting Cassandry: Historical Romance with a Giveaway!”
Thank you for spotlighting Courting Cassandry for my book launch tour and for letting me share a guest post on your blog!
My pleasure. Your post was very interesting!
I found this post really fascinating. I had no idea about how the inheritance stuff differed in the Middle Ages from later periods. Thanks for being a part of the Booknificent Thursday reading community this week!Tina