Hazel Mary Martell
hmartell@tiscali.co.uk | About My Writing Over the last 36 years I've had many different sorts of writing published, including short stories, novels, children's information books and a few articles for magazines. Fiction is my first love, however, and when my latest novel - The Dreamchasers - was rejected by a main stream London publisher with a letter which said that it was "certainly written to publication standard" but he didn't want to publish it, I decided to set up my own publishing company - Thorn Tree Publishing - and publish it myself. Marketed as "A Yorkshire Romance", it was launched at Morley library on Valentine's Day 2007. | Authors' Register: | About My Background I was born and brought up in Morley, which in those days was a typical West Riding mill town, but I now live and work in a village in the Yorkshire Dales. I always wanted to be a writer and my first short story was published in 1971, when I was working as a librarian at Ramsbottom in Lancashire. Since that date I've had around 300 short stories published in magazines in Britain and overseas. I also had three romantic historical novels - "Cloughfold", "The Romany" and "The Bradleys of Brookroyd" - published, before writing around 30 information books for children. These are mainly on history and archaeology and have been translated into more than three dozen languages, ranging from Albanian to Welsh and including Russian, Chinese and Japanese, as well as most European languages. I'm currently writing my second novel for Thorn Tree Publishing, titled "Where Two Worlds Meet".
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My Books |
The Dreamchasers | | | Genre: Romance - Historical
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 | | Sometimes a dream is all you have...
The night after Jared Ellis kisses her under the mistletoe, nineteen-year-old Sarah Naylor dreams she is standing by the window of Fairfield Hall, waiting for him to come to her. In the dream, she is wearing a pale green silk dress and meeting him as an equal, but in reality she is a servant at the Hall and Jared Ellis is the cousin of the owner's wife. As a result, Sarah knows there's little chance that the dream will ever come true - and even less chance after tragedy strikes on New Year's Eve and she is forced to leave Fairfield.
But some dreams are impossible to forget and, as Sarah starts a new life away from everything she's ever known, her dream - and memories of Jared - continue to haunt her thoughts, despite all her efforts to dismiss them...
Set mainly in Yorkshire between 1828 and 1832, The Dreamchasers tells not only of Sarah's dream of meeting Jared Ellis as an equal, but also of the dream of men like Richard Oastler who campaigned long and hard at this time to make it illegal to employ anyone under the age of ten in Britain's rapidly-expanding mills and factories.
If you would like to read the first six pages of Chapter One, please visit the Thorn Tree website at www.thorntreepublishing.co.uk
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Awards, Prizes and Commendations |
 | | 2006 - Winner of the Life Writing competition, Winchester Annual Writers Conference.
2006 - Where Two Worlds Meet long-listed for the First Three Pages of a Novel competition, Winchester Annual Writers Conference.
2005 - Uncle Ralph's Last Wrath highly commended in the Short Story Competition, Winchester Annual Writers Conference
2004 - A Heart Alone highly commended in the First Three Pages of a Novel competition, Winchester Annual Writers Conference.
1993 - What Do We Know About The Celts? runner-up for the TES Junior Information Book award. | | | | 2008 - Runner-up in the Self-Publishing Marketing Award competition, one of The David St John Thomas Charitable Trust Writing Awards. | | | | 2008 - Commended certificate for To See The Bright Morning in the First Three Pages of a Novel competition, Winchester Annual Writers Conference. |
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