Here’s a nice review of the novel from those great folk at Chanticleer… SLAVE to FORTUNE by D.J. Munro – Y/A Historical Fiction, Sea Adventures Fiction, Thriller & Suspense

I’m delighted to have teamed up with the very talented, award-winning actor/director Matthew Lloyd Davies and Tantor Media to bring you the audiobook version of the novel. You can listen to a sample of the first couple of pages on Read More …

It looks like Slave to Fortune will soon be available as an audiobook. Tantor Media, a division of RBMedia – the world’s biggest audiobook producer – have purchased the audio rights and are intent on producing the audiobook version. This Read More …

Great news: Slave to Fortune did rather well at the Chanticleer International Book Awards over in Washington State last weekend (21-22 April 2018). Amid some stiff competition, it was a First Place category winner for historical fiction (Chaucer Award). It Read More …

At the start of 2017, I set myself a sales target to achieve 5,000 sales of Slave to Fortune during the year. To put this in perspective, according to Publishers Weekly (from a few years ago), the average book in Read More …

On 27th October, Slave to Fortune was selected to be Amazon UK’s Kindle Deal of the Day (which, for an author, is a bit like being given a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory). It had some pretty strong Read More …

As there are now around 100 written reviews for Slave to Fortune on Amazon and Goodreads, I thought I’d share a few highlights – featuring the different aspects of the book that readers have commented on. Most of the reviews Read More …

I’m not sure quite how but Slave to Fortune hit the UK number one bestseller spot in the category of young-adult historical fiction on Amazon.co.uk yesterday* and was still there when I woke up this morning, so I reckoned that Read More …

This year marks the 130th anniversary of Kidnapped – the classic historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped, which was first published in 1886, is one of the Scottish author’s greatest works, ranking alongside his other literary triumphs such as Treasure Island and Read More …

One of the key themes explored in Slave to Fortune is religious conflict, an issue that was at least as important in the 17th century as it is today. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of two bloody and wide-ranging Read More …