Janet mcgiffin biography

I’m excited to take part in the blog tour for Betrothal and Betrayal today in conjunction with TheWriteReads! It’s my first time taking part in one of their tours, and we have a great book to feature today!

Betrothal and Betrayal is a historical fantasy set around Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire. Set in the backdrop of a world run by men, we follow Thekla, a fiery female protagonist. She ventures out of her small town after being stood up by her betrothed for the third time. Her mission is to either find him and hold him accountable to his oath, or have him release her. It’s a foray into a richly set world as independently as any woman of her time can!

Let’s take a look at the details of the book before diving into my review:-

Betrothal and Betrayal – Janet McGiffin

Genre: Historical Fantasy

Pages: 250

Audience: Young Adult

Publisher: Scotland Street Press

Publication Date: 01 Aug 2023

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Goodreads – Betrothal and Betrayal

Seventeen-year-old Thekla needs her quick wits and knife to track down her betrothed, a soldie

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Welcome to my Amazon author page. What a nice way for us to meet and learn about each other, which is what life is all about, isn’t it? For me, life is also all about following my imagination wherever it takes me, which includes Greece. There, my fascination with the "dark ages" of Byzantine history ignited, unveiling the intriguing figure of Empress Irini of Byzantium—a woman both beautiful and murderous. This encounter sparked an eleven-year journey of intensive research and the creation of a four-book series chronicling the remarkable life of Empress Irini. Life is a journey of unexpected twists and turns—a constant evolution along different paths. My story began with my pursuit of a Comparative Literature major at the University of California, Berkeley. After that, I sold advertising for a weekly newspaper in Seattle, worked for the Milwaukee Health Department in Wisconsin, went to law school for a year (and decided I couldn’t tolerate lawyers), wrote three crime novels for Fawcett Publishers, and taught Business English to people from all over the world at Berlitz i

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Betrothal and Betrayal: Empress Irini Series, Volume 1 Volume 1

Janet McGiffin divides her time between her apartment in Manhattan, her family in Washington State, and her friends in Athens, Greece. She was born in Fairfield, Iowa into a newspaper family and learned to write copy as a teenager by writing obituaries for the Ellensburg Daily Record in Washington state. After university, she worked for the Milwaukee Health Department where she gained first-hand knowledge for her best-selling mystery series published by Fawcett Press, NY, featuring Doctor Maxine St. Clair, an ER doctor in an inner-city hospital. She worked as a press officer for the Washington state senate, then moved to Athens, Greece where she wrote grant proposals for small non-profit women's organizations in Mediterranean countries. She also wrote a humor column for the Athens News newspaper with field archaeologist Adrian Vrettos, wrote two English language easy readers for Cambridge University Press, UK, and a series of hiking articles for greecetravel.com. She researched her Byzantine-era Empress Irini