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Michael Fane before Judge George Jeffreys

Greetings Red Room participants. As well as writing about The Monmouth Rebellion and of the atrocities served upon so many by Judge George Jeffreys and Percy Kirke, I love doing my own marketing.  There is nothing quite like opening your browser and looking at your weblog stats.  To demonstrate how I go about this and if you have time! Simply search on dear old Google 'Judge George Jeffreys'. 

We all set up a blog for our efforts, but do we title them correctly?  No, nearly every one I have seen is based on the Author's name or the book title.

If you have by now searched for 'The Hanging Judge' as Jeffreys was so affectionately known!  You will have seen my weblog www.newhistoricalfictionbooks.co.uk - the title of the blog brings in hundreds of searches for New Fiction Novels - I am on page one for that search term and even more for Historical Fiction Books.

I guess I'm lucky because I learned my trade over at Web Pro World where today I moderate as ctabuk.  Search Engine marketing is actually great fun.  The secret is to 'think searcher'. 

I'm here to help, I do it free because it's fun.  C.W.Gortner saw what I was up to and we exchanged links with each others blogs, by memory a search on his name also features my blog.

Now, about my writing - in my next novel I will be featuring the 'real' Captain Blood.  When Rafael Sabatini wrote 'Captain Blood' way back in 1922 he based the character Peter Blood as a Doctor who aided troops fighting in the Monmouth Rebellion.  The mistake he made was to treat both sides and was sentenced to penal servitude. A little known fact was that an Author named W.Bourne Cooke had used the same story line in 'The Black Box' written circa 1880. The real Captain Blood was actually the self styled Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1672.  So audacious was the plot that King Charles II pardoned him and set him to work as a 'spy'. Daniel DeFoe was also chosen to spy for William of Orange.

The 'Sabatini Society' have given me permission to continue the story line. The book 'The Further Adventures of Michael Fane' has already received a publication deal with Legend Press.