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    Fall 2020 Update – What in the World is Going On?

    October 30, 2020 / No Comments

    I know I’ve been quite on my blog and website for quite a while. Once I published my last book, The King’s Furies, I had the idea that I’d write a weekly or bi-weekly blog post to update readers on my progress to give a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into my writing life. But as I got further into those blog posts, I realized that I don’t really have anything particularly stimulating to write about. I wanted to give readers an inside scoop about the writing journey, but to be honest, it’s kind of boring most of the time. There are lots of memes out there like this, and…

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    ARCHIVE: Author Barbara Spencer – Why I Wrote Broken

    October 1, 2020

    Island of Gold

    September 8, 2021

    What is fantasy and where do my books fit in?

    October 20, 2021
  • Book Review

    Book Review: A Time for Swords, by Matthew Harffy

    October 8, 2020 / No Comments

    Lindisfarne, AD793. The life of a novice monk will be changed forever when the Vikings attack in a new historical adventure from Matthew Harffy. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the raiders came, no one was prepared. They came from the North, their dragon-prowed longships gliding out of the dawn mist as they descended on the kingdom’s most sacred site. It is 8th June AD793, and with the pillage of the monastery on Lindisfarne, the Viking Age has begun. While his fellow monks flee before the Norse onslaught, one young novice stands his ground. He has been taught…

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    ARCHIVE: Elizabeth’s Side of the Story, a guest post by Samantha Wilcoxson

    January 23, 2020

    Book Review: Traitor’s Knot

    January 24, 2020

    THE MIGHTY KINGMAKER—Traitor or Misunderstood?

    July 22, 2021
  • Guest Blog

    ARCHIVE: Loving the Enemy – The Seeds of Revolution, by Dominic Fielder

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    Jekyll and Hyde has been on the GCSE syllabus now for a few years. As much as I enjoy teaching about it, I find myself painfully aware of the brilliance of Robert Louis Stevenson’s prose and his rich vocabulary. Just occasionally I will try and slip ‘slatternly’ and ‘catholicity’ into everyday conversation but you must choose your moments! As the story reaches the final chapter, we at last read Jekyll’s account and begin to feel some sympathy for the man, a luxury never extended to Edward Hyde. Which made me think about the diet of war films and westerns that were my intake from early teenage years on. The enemy…

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    Exploring Genre: Historical Fiction

    January 23, 2023

    Speculative Fiction: An Exploration of a Literary Genre

    February 13, 2023

    Loving the Enemy: The Seeds of Revolution

    June 14, 2021
  • Guest Blog

    ARCHIVE: Mary Anne Yarde – Why I Wrote the Du Lac Chronicles

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    A generation after Arthur Pendragon ruled, Briton lies fragmented into warring kingdoms and principalities. Eighteen-year-old Alden du Lac ruled the tiny kingdom of Cerniw. Now he half-hangs from a wooden pole, his back lashed into a mass of bloody welts exposed to the cold of a cruel winter night. He’s to be executed come daybreak—should he survive that long. When Alden notices the shadowy figure approaching, he assumes death has come to end his pain. Instead, the daughter of his enemy, Cerdic of Wessex, frees and hides him, her motives unclear. Annis has loved Alden since his ill-fated marriage to her Saxon cousin—a marriage that ended in blood and guilt—and…

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    “Trad publishing is about sales. If we’re lucky, those books are also good.”

    February 12, 2022

    Book Review: Luminous – The Story of a Radium Girl

    June 2, 2020

    How Writers Are Like Pablo Picasso

    June 3, 2021
  • Guest Blog

    ARCHIVE: Author Barbara Spencer – Why I Wrote Broken

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    I am known as an author of YA thrillers and children’s books, and it was a complete surprise to find myself writing ‘Broken’ which is for adults. I had just completed the time-slip novel, ‘Time Breaking’. An instant success which took me to many book-signing events at Waterstones, I decided to use the same time-slip format for my next novel but with a male lead rather than a female. Unfortunately, and I plead total ignorance as to why or how it happened, my pen took off and instead of sending my hero back in time, I found myself investigating rivers and monasteries, peat moors, rhynes and clyces. The result was…

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    Book Review: Luminous – The Story of a Radium Girl

    June 2, 2020

    A Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of The Mallory Saga, by Paul Bennett

    October 1, 2020

    Notes to Readers: Just One Thing

    March 16, 2022
  • Author Interview

    Interview with Amy Maroney

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    Author Amy Maroney’s Miramonde Series tells the story of a Renaissance-era woman artist and an American scholar linked by a 500-year-old mystery. In Book 1, The Girl from Oto, the heroine of the series is born into a cruel and violent noble family; her mother names her Miramonde, ‘one who sees the world.’ Raised in a convent, Mira becomes an extraordinary artist—never dreaming she will one day fulfill the promise of her name. Mira’s modern-day counterpart, Zari Durrell, is a young American scholar doing research in Europe who discovers traces of a mysterious woman artist in several sixteenth-century paintings. Soon she’s tracing a path through history to Mira herself—but the…

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    October 1, 2020

    ARCHIVE: Mary Anne Yarde – Why I Wrote the Du Lac Chronicles

    October 1, 2020

    Speculative Fiction: An Exploration of a Literary Genre

    February 13, 2023
  • Archive

    A Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of The Mallory Saga, by Paul Bennett

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    My interest in history began in the early 1960’s and can be partially attributed to movies such as, Spartacus, The 300 Spartans, Ben Hur, and the like.  A purloined, rolled up, weekly food store newspaper advertisement made an excellent gladius; the handle held together with only the finest rubber bands; my best friend and I exchanged blows as Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis battling it out for Olivier’s pleasure.  In quieter moments, at the Monteith Branch of the Detroit Public Library system, I read about Heinrich Schliemann and his discoveries at Mycenae, and at Troy.  I was hooked on history from then on. All through my educational phases, up through 3…

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    ARCHIVE: Why I write Historical fiction set in the Middle Ages, a guest post by Elizabeth Chadwick

    January 23, 2020

    Enheduanna as Priestess

    February 23, 2022

    Book Inspiration: Raglan Castle

    June 17, 2021
  • Archive

    ARCHIVE: My First Blog Post from 2015

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    My first blog post!  How odd it feels to blog — to write my thoughts, opinions and share from my vast store of wisdom for the world at large to read.  But you wrote a book, you say.  Why is blogging different?  Well, it just is (*she says with a shaking, scolding finger point*).  For some reason writing a 100,000+ word novel is far less daunting to me than writing a blog.  I have a lot of theories as to why, but I won’t go into that in this post.  Since I’m a blogger now, I hold absolute, cosmic-like power here in this space and can get into that subject…

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    Book Review: Silk and the Sword: The Women of the Norman Conquest

    June 8, 2021

    Interview My Character: Casmir

    July 9, 2021

    ARCHIVE: Why I write Historical fiction set in the Middle Ages, a guest post by Elizabeth Chadwick

    January 23, 2020
  • Archive

    ARCHIVE: Plans Change – The King’s Furies

    October 1, 2020 / No Comments

    “It is a woman’s privilege to change her mind.” – Thomas Draxe, 1616 I have a confession to make.  I have a hard time making up my mind sometimes.  There are just so many possibilities that the way ahead can feel like a giant room containing lots and lots of doors.  Any of those doors could open into the next best thing.  But the big question is which door to open? As I was writing The Scribe’s Daughter, my next book was already taking shape in my head.  Kassia’s sister Irisa had a very important story to tell.  It was a no-brainer to write her story next.  Each of the…

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    How best-selling author Stephen Lawhead gave me more work to do and other sundry things…

    March 2, 2021

    Book Review: A Time for Swords, by Matthew Harffy

    October 8, 2020

    Island of Gold

    September 8, 2021

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