Monday, 8 December 2025

The Angel Mountain Saga rebranding celebrates 25 years.......




I know everybody loves to hate Amazon and Kindle, but the people in charge certainly know how to do promotion.  They have given a special page on their web site to the re-branding of the 8 Angel Mountain niovels, emphasising the Saga as an entity. 

Here is the text from the web page:

The Angel Mountain saga consists of eight novels, each one relating to a period in the life of Martha Morgan, Mistress of the Plas Ingli estate in West Wales. The books cover the period 1796-1859. Author Brian John launched a new career as a novelist in the year 2000 with the writing of "On Angel Mountain". It was published in 2001, and was an instant success. Under pressure from his readers, he wrote and self-published seven further books about his eccentric and incorrigible heroine (all under the Greencroft Books imprint) between 2002 and 2011. In each book an unnamed enthusiast seeks and finds a new diary, written in Martha's hand in the old Welsh Dimetian dialect which was, at the time, almost extinct. The narrative is written in the first person, and everything is seen through Martha's eyes.
The year 2025 marks the Silver Jubilee or 25th Anniversary of the launch of the Saga, which has become the best-selling fiction series ever published in Wales, with 150,000 volumes sold in a number of different formats and editions. Martha Morgan is seen by perceptiive readers as "Mother Wales", and the series as a whole is taken to be an allegory dealing with the struggle of a small and desirable country against a powerful and predatory neighbour.
This is the sequence of books:

The eight novels in the saga should ideally be read in the following order if you wish to follow Martha Morgan's life chronologically: On Angel Mountain (Book 1): Introduces Martha as a pregnant, suicidal 18-year-old who has a shotgun marriage and finds herself mistress of the Plas Ingli estate in 1796.
House of Angels (Book 2): Continues Martha's journey as she works to rebuild her life and the estate after a devastating fire and her husband's murder.
Dark Angel (Book 3): Further explores Martha's life and challenges in the "Wild West" of Regency Wales.
Sacrifice (Book 7): A dark tale filling a gap in the narrative of Dark Angel, focusing on traumatic episodes and involving the shady world of Victorian Secret Societies.
Conspiracy of Angels (Book 8): Set in 1810, this adventure story follows Martha as she gets involved in the anti-slavery movement and dices with death.
Rebecca and the Angels (Book 4): Describes Martha's involvement in the Rebecca Riots (1839-1844) and her attempts to improve the world around her.
Flying with Angels (Book 5): Covers the later years of Martha's life, including a final romantic fling and dealing with ancient family feuds.
Guardian Angel (Book 6): Deals with events following Martha's recorded death in 1855 and introduces a "new" heroine, Susanna Ravenhill. But who is she?

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All of the revamped covers are given due prominence, and there are links to the web pages for all 8 of the titles.  Let's hope that we see a steady increase in sales as a result of all the hard work -- especially by our son Steve, who designed the 8 covers.

Here is the link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074CFGRJ6?binding=kindle_edition&qid=1765186179&sr=1-9&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_rc_tkin

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