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  We're excited to announce the dates and participants for the upcoming virtual book tour for The Tudor Prophecy by Julie Strong  leading up to release day on January 25th. Advance reviews have started coming in and the tour will continue in full force in the new year with reviews and author interviews. Here's the line-up so far. As reviews, Q&As and interviews air and post, we will update the links. Atlantic Book Reviews (Lana Shupe) - book review - November 26th - pre-tour review! The Corner Bookstore  - USA Global TV & Radio - author interview - January 9 History Bards and Downunder Reviews  - author interview - January 16 What Cathy Read Next (Cathy Johnson) - launch announcement and excerpt -January 17 Dalhousie Alumni Newsletter - January 20 - launch announcement The Author Journey (Anne O'Connell) - author interview - January 21 Dianne Ascroft  - author Q&A - January 24 The IndieView - author Q&A - January 25 Dartmouth Book Exchange -...

The launch of the next title coming out from OC Publishing is The Tudor Prophecy, an historical fiction written by Dr. Julie Strong. Release day scheduled for January 25th.   Julie, a soon-to-be-retired family physician, is also an award-winning short story author and playwright born in Manchester, England, who grew up in Wales, Australia, and Ireland, and emigrated to Canada in 1980. Her medical degree is from Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland, and she holds a BA in Classics from Dalhousie University, Halifax. This is her debut novel.   The Tudor Prophecy is set in 1541, when Henry VIII, increasingly decrepit and paranoid, reigns from a contested throne. In parallel storylines it follows two young women, Lady Alice Grantmire and Hester Vaughan, cousins who each suffer greatly from the King’s unjust decrees. Hester, betrothed to a Welsh bard whose mentor had visions foretelling Elizabeth’s ascendancy, encounters the eight-year-old Lady Elizabeth, and the ...