Interview with J.A. Hunsinger, Author of Axe of Iron: The Settlers

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J.A. Hunsinger is the author of the new historical fiction novel, Axe of Iron: The Settlers, which is a character-driven series of historical fiction books about the adventures of medieval Vikings as they struggle to establish a settlement in North America in the face of hostile native opposition.  We interviewed J.A. to find out more about his book and his life as a published author.

Thank you for this interview, Jerry. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?

I am a retired commercial airline pilot, technical writer, and air transport engineering technical pilot. During my flying career, I ranched for twenty years. Then later I owned and operated a commercial fishing vessel in Texas for ten years. I have been writing since the nuns taught me composition in grade school. Axe of Iron: The Settlers is my first novel.

Do you write full-time?

Yes, I work every day, either writing or promoting.

Was there anyone in your life that you can give credit to helping pave the way?

 That is easy, my wife Phyllis. Without her support and advocacy, I would not have completed and published this first novel of my series. It is the most difficult undertaking of my life. She pushes me just enough, and I need a push on occasion, to get the job done.

Can you tell us a little about your latest book?

Axe of Iron: The Settlers is the first novel of a continuing character-driven tale of a medieval people whose wanderlust and yearning for adventure cause them to leave the two established settlements on Greenland and sail west, to the unexplored land later referred to as Vinland.

 Eirik the Red established Eiriksfjord in 986 and later Lysufjord, 400-miles to the north. Just 22-years later, new settlers from the homelands found all the best land already occupied, the fragile Arctic environment strained by too many people and animals on too little arable land.

Under the capable leadership of Halfdan Ingolfsson and his lieutenant, Gudbjartur Einarsson, 315 men, women, and children set sail from Greenland in the spring of 1008, bound for the unexplored continent across the western ocean.

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