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  • Archive,  Writing Inspiration

    Book Inspiration: Raglan Castle

    June 17, 2021 / No Comments

    Originally posted April 17, 2019 A velvety wash of twilight purple cloaked the skies from one horizon to the other as our train of horses and palanquins traversed the sloping causeway into Croilton Castle, the ancestral home of the barons of Cilgaron. Royal pennants snapped in the rising winds carrying the tang of the oncoming rains, the musky yet fresh scent of moist air enveloping us as we reached the great gate. I thanked the gods that we arrived to the safety of this bastion just ahead of the downpour. – The King’s Furies, chapter 37 There is no secret that my books feel more historical than fantasy despite the fantasy label.…

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  • Archive,  Guest Blog

    Loving the Enemy: The Seeds of Revolution

    June 14, 2021 / No Comments

    Guest post by Dominic Fielder – originally published March 7, 2019 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…

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    Investigating Forged Documents in the Fifteenth Century – A Scrivener’s Tale

    March 20, 2021

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    June 11, 2021

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    July 22, 2021
  • Guest Blog,  Archive

    The Year the Swans Came

    June 11, 2021 / No Comments

    Originally posted March 5, 2019 Growing up amongst the ruins of war, four siblings use bridges and cobblestone walkways as a backdrop for their games. Pieter Bader, the eldest, wants to follow in the footsteps of his family, designers of mirrors for royalty since the 17th century, while Maidy, the youngest, dreams of becoming a writer. Her best friend Ruth, who lives next door, dreams of marrying Pieter, only for him to vanish from their lives late one night. Is his disappearance linked to the arrival of the swans, feared as cursed and birds of ill-fortune? What will happen when they return six years later, on the morning of Maidy’s sixteenth…

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

    January 23, 2020

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    An Interview with Tovi, Son of Wulfhere

    March 1, 2021
  • Archive,  Book Review

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

    June 8, 2021 / No Comments

    Originally posted January 11, 2019 The momentous events of 1066, the story of invasion, battle and conquest, are well known. But what of the women? Harold II of England had been with Edith Swanneck for twenty years but in 1066, in order to strengthen his hold on the throne, he married Ealdgyth, sister of two earls. William of Normandy’s Duchess, Matilda of Flanders, had supposedly only agreed to marry the Duke after he’d pulled her pigtails and thrown her in the mud. Harald Hardrada had two wives – apparently at the same time. So, who were these women? What was their real story? And what happened to them after 1066?…

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

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    ARCHIVE: On Inspiration and How Kassia Came to Be

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  • Archive,  Uncategorized

    How Writers Are Like Pablo Picasso

    June 3, 2021 / No Comments

    Originally posted December 21, 2018 It’s not an unusual thing to want to become an immediate master at whatever we set our hand to. I think it’s just human nature. We shy away from the work and discipline necessary to develop the skills needed to become really great at something. When I was in college, I took up ballet. Yep, first time. I was 18, and no, I wasn’t any good. But the class gave me a half a credit, and there was no homework, so why not? When I was 28, I picked up a violin for the first time. No teacher, no lessons. Just me, a book, and…

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