08 Dec The Cruel Ship’s Captain on Sale Now
The Cruel Ship's Captain Now Available in Paperback....
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27 Apr The Silver Dagger: American Murder Ballads Now on Sale
The Silver Dagger Now Available in Paperback and on Kindle....
27 Apr Irish Songs of War & Rebellion Now on Sale!
The Wind that Shakes the Barley is available on Amazon and by special order at your favorite local bookstore. ...
02 Jan Crowns of Silver & Ash: The Seven Stars Now Available on Audible!
Start the new decade off with the audiobook for Crowns of Silver & Ash: The Seven Stars! ...
12 Dec MAD LOVE, MURDER & MAYHEM HITS THE AMAZON BEST SELLERS LIST
Amazon Best Selling Authors in British & Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Dickens, Austen… Hampton!...
10 Dec The San Francisco Book Review
Mad Love, Murder & Mayhem: Favorite English & Scottish Ballads receives writeup in The San Francisco Book Review! "Joshua Hampton puts together a collection of ballads by Francis James Child who was a Harvard professor in the 19th century. The style of writing is romantic and lyrical with some...
02 Jul Mad Love, Murder and Mayhem Now in Paperback!
New Book by Louisville Author Collects English and Scottish Ballads That Shaped Popular Music (Louisville, KY) – At the end of the 19th century, Harvard professor Francis James Child published a collection of 305 traditional English and Scottish ballads that would influence folk tradition and popular...
09 May “Northman’s Daughter” Featured in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #32
"Joshua Hampton is back with a remarkable twist on red-handed Viking revenge." Checkout my latest poem, The Northman's Daughter, in the new issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. And of course read the other stuff too. HFQ is the go-to for great fantasy IMO. To read The Northman's Daughter and...
23 Mar Outlines, Medieval Dialogue, and Music: An Interview with Joshua Hampton
My first interview as a fantasy author! Does this mean I'm famous now? http://lisaswritopia.com/outlines-medieval-dialogue-music/ What was your inspiration for this series? I’ve been a huge fantasy fan for as long as I can remember. I watched the Rankin & Bass animated versions of The Hobbit and The Return...
11 Nov The Songs Behind the Songs
Readers often ask me about the songs and poems in Crowns of Silver & Ash. What inspired them? How did I come up with the rhyme schemes and meter? Well, I’ve always been a huge fan of folk music, especially from the British Isles. For as...