David Caldo
david@davidcaldo.co.uk
http://davidcaldo.co.uk | About My Writing David Caldo has just completed his latest novel, 'Florentine Masque', a mystery story set in 14th Century Tuscany. '... positively splendid entertainment. A rip-roaring, page-turning, exuberant and delightful Italian romp.' - American freelance editor: Ilene Shapera Fenton. The novel has also received excellent reviews from The Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers Scheme 2006: ' ... I have almost nothing but praise for it. It’s the right length for a first novel. The settings are brilliantly realised, and I could almost see and hear the sights and sounds of 14th century Tuscany. The characters are well-developed: the nice guys are sympathetic and the baddies are wonderfully vile.' | Authors' Register: | About My Background I have always been fascinated by Europe in the 14th Century, particularly Tuscany and the dawn of the Renaissance. I love the period for its richness and its political turbulence and the enormous wealth of colourful material available to draw from. Lovers of The Canterbury Tales and Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron will recognise stories and sub-plots that could almost have come from their pages. I have invested three years researching the period and the area, both by reading the literature and physically on the ground. The latter included some weeks last summer spent on horseback, riding through the wild mountains of the Maremma from one medieval village to the next. I am currently laying out the structure of a second novel in the life of my four protagonists (a bother and sister and their respective lovers), tentatively to be called Florentine Gold, and I expect more to follow. I have a PhD from Cambridge University and, before that, degrees in Law and in Engineering from Trinity College, Dublin. The bulk of my career has been spent running my own high-technology research company doing projects for various commercial firms and the Ministry of Defence. I am married with three grown-up children and I live in Hampshire. |
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My Books |
Florentine Masque | | | Genre: Fiction - Historical
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 | | When Alessandro and Felicia set out to track down the murderers of their family, they stir up dark secrets in the Catholic Church and face death by torture and burning. Florentine Masque tells the turbulent and bawdy adventures of a brother and sister on a quest for revenge, told against the colourful backdrop of 14th century Tuscany. "… positively splendid entertainment. A rip-roaring, page-turning, exuberant and delightful Italian romp."
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| Fractured Light | | | Genre: Fiction - Fantasy
 | | When his girlfriend Sasha is abducted, Dale is forced to enter the strange universe created by an ascetic 10th Century Monk. He must solve the seven deadly codes and run the gauntlet of the seven guarded circles to rescue her. * A soul-tortured medieval monk with power to make or unmake the cosmos, who recreates the universe as it should have been - he will be God and all shall worship him. * The kidnap of modern schoolchildren to worship and cede up to him all of their spirit, their life and their joy - forever. * A boy who dares to walk the seven circles to rescue his girl - to unravel the seven codes and face the monsters that guard the seven gates. Failure could mean worse than death - and time is running out.
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| The Journey | | |
 | | When a vivacious young Regency Miss is accidentally transported 200 years forward to the present day she finds her life surprising but quite delightful - that is, until her ominous Uncle Silas appears Film Script -Seeking a Pub;isher
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Awards, Prizes and Commendations |
 | | Top 100 Winners list in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, Centenary Novel Writing Competition for the novel ‘Florentine Masque’, April 2007, and currently in the running for one of three top prizes to be announced June 2007 | | | | Top-Five Award and ‘Bestsellers’ List (number one in the Historical Novels section), in the Arts Council YouWriteOn.com, for the novel 'Florentine Masque', June 2006 | | | | 25th Annual Writers Conference, the 'First Three Pages of a Novel' competition sponsored by Piatkus Books, for the novel 'Fractured Light' - Highly Commended | | | | 24th Annual Writers Conference, the 'Writing for Children' competition sponsored by Little Tiger Press, for the novel 'The Eorls School' - Highly Commended | | | | 23rd Annual Writers Conference, the 'First Three Pages of a Novel' competition sponsored by Piatkus Books, for the novel 'Worth Dying For' - Commended | | | | Serendipity Magazine: Prize for the Best Item Submitted for the short story 'The Tease' | | | | Writers Forum Magazine: Prize for the short story 'The Roman' |
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