Logan Crawford of Spotlight TV interviewed Stephen Finlay Archer, author of “Searchers: The Irish Clans Book One of the Series”
Stephen Finlay Archer, author of “Searchers: The Irish Clans Book One of the Series,” was interviewed by Spotlight TV’s Logan Crawford. They discuss the author’s inspiration for writing this historical masterpiece.
Logan Crawford is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and anchor host. He is also a host and anchor on Ebru, WWOR-TV, FOX, and VOOM: HD NEWS. He appeared in a number of films and television shows, including The Irishman (2019), The First Purge (2018), Teenage Mutant Ninja, 40-Love (2021), and many others.
Stephen Finlay Archer lives in Northern California with his wife, Kathy. He creates Irish historical fiction that explores Ireland’s heroic, difficult, and magical history. Stephen chose the budding profession of Aerospace Engineering in the 1960s and went on to handle the design, construction, and testing of communications satellites in Canada. He moved to California in 1983 to work for the Hughes Space and Communications Company.
He is a member of Writers Unlimited in California Goldrush Country and the North American and Irish branches of the Historical Novel Society. Prior to his retirement, he was an Aerospace Manager directing large-scale, delivery-in orbit, satellite systems for the U.S. Navy and NASA/NOAA.
Author Stephen Finlay Archer writes Irish historical fiction. His latest seven-book series, The Irish Clans, covers the Irish revolutionary period from 1915 to 1923. This Irish family saga full of swashbuckling characters and page-turning action tells the true story of Ireland’s conflict with England.
“Searchers: The Irish Clans Book One of the Series” is the first novel in a four-book saga that begins with a travesty at sea necessitating searches for life’s true treasures, both in 1915 Ireland, when the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa affords golden opportunity to fan the flames of revolution, and in America, for transplanted Irish families connected to the world of the Irish Clans.
Watch the book’s video trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqEIp0TqDGE.
This masterpiece was praised by the Kirkus Review, to wit “Archer has created colorful, sympathetic characters, all striving for better lives. He packs this dense volume with pungent details, giving the reader necessary context, and even provides eight pages of history at the volume’s end.”
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