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Just What Kind of Mother are You? by Paula Daly
I was on Twitter last week and I got a message from Alison Barrow at Transworld publishers asking if I’d like to read a debut novel set in the Lake District. Like most writers I have several jobs and a...
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Win a copy of A Divided Inheritance
I am delighted to announce that A Divided Inheritance is available on kindle today. Click on the cover to take you to Amazon. It will be available in all other formats from 24th October, including the...
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The Historical Novella – Tips from Helena P. Schrader
Rather than one long novel, Helena Schrader is writing a series of ten novellas – Ten Tales of Chivalry, all set in the 13th century. I was interested to know more about the Novella form, so I am...
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What to do on the day your book comes out
pic fromMovie Poster Shop Today my third historical novel, ‘A Divided Inheritance’ is out. For me, this is the culmination of eighteen months of research and writing and so deserves to be celebrated....
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Life with Anne Boleyn – Interview with Judith Arnopp
I am delighted to welcome Judith Arnopp who has just released her Tudor novel about Anne Boleyn – The Kiss of the Concubine. I was interested to find out from Judith about the endless appeal of the...
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Forget the Sensational – in Praise of Quiet Books
One of the things I’ve noticed about the new self-publishing phenomenon, and also about traditionally published books fighting for their corner in the ever expanding book market, is that many of them...
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The not-quite-so-swashbuckling duel of Alexandre Dumas
A belated Happy New Year to all my followers. I had a wonderful Christmas in which I got a whole pile of books, one of which was ‘Love Sex Death and Words – surprising tales from a year in literature’,...
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Researching historical fiction – The Lady’s Slipper
Many people have asked me about how I do my research and how much time it takes to write a historical novel. So in this post I will take a little about my process, and also tell you about some of the...
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Archaeology, Tombs and Prophecies – The Tenth Saint by D.J.Niko
Welcome to readers on DJ Niko’s blog tour for The Tenth Saint. I was lucky enough to have this book on holiday with me, and it was the ideal poolside companion. Desperate to escape the seventeenth...
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Powerful drama of a King’s Execution – The Crimson Ribbon
Blurb: Based on the real figure of the fascinating Elizabeth Poole, The Crimson Ribbon is the mesmerising story of two women’s obsession, superstition and hope. May Day 1646. The Civil War is...
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My main character – Lady Katherine Fanshawe
This post is part of a game begun by Debra Brown and passed to me by Sue Millard who lives relatively near me in Cumbria in the North of England. The posts are designed for readers to gain an insight...
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Literature and Sisterly Love
My novel THE GILDED LILY is about the relationship between sisters – one pretty and one plain, when they run away to the gilded streets of London to escape a difficult past. Although the novel is set...
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Throwing mud at a wall – my writer’s process
Charlotte Betts is another fan of the seventeenth century and writes fantastic award-winning romantic novels set in the Restoration period. She invited me to take part in this writing process blog hop...
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No Quick Fix – The Inherent Complexity of a Good Novel
Recently I have noticed that there has been a tsunami of ’How to’ writing guides published, and that these are selling extremely well. In fact it is probably more profitable, and perhaps easier, to...
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#LuckySeven – lines from my new novel
I was tagged by Barbara Kyle in a game where you have to reveal the seventh line of the seventh chapter of the book you are working on. So here’s mine – from my current work in progress which is based...
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The #historical word origin of ‘Curfew’
As a novelist fascinated by the past, I love it when I come across words that are linked to interesting historical facts. This week I came across a peculiar sort of fire guard called a ‘couvre-feu’...
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Historical Fiction – Too Many Elizabeths
My latest novel in progress features a cast of real historical characters most of which have the real name ‘Elizabeth.’ My main character is not called Elizabeth, but her mother is, and her sister....
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The Advantages of Book Blog Tours
I’m about to embark on another Virtual Tour with my new YA book, Shadow on the Highway (FREE on Kindle this week only! US UK ) This will be the third blog tour I have done with my historical fiction...
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The Attraction of the Highwayman Image – an interview with Henriette Gyland
Both Henriette Gyland and I have new books out about a female highwayman. Fascinated by finding this out, I invited Henri to come and enlighten us about her novel. Henri’s novel is called The...
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The Art of the Elizabethan Murder Mystery
What does it take to write an Elizabethan Murder Mystery? I asked the actor Jonathan Digby, whose novel, ‘A Murderous Affair’, is currently flying high in the UK Amazon charts, for some clues. What...
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