MM Bennetts
It was with great sadness that I learnt that MM Bennetts had passed away on the 25th August 2014. She was a fine writer and a lovely person who will…
Weather, word count and (the vagaries of) WordPress
Yesterday it rained, seriously rained, and not realising that an online friend was living in France I got worried when she talked of a forecast of another week of heavy…
Money, money, money…
Latest hoard of coins to be found in a Derbyshire cave is declared 'treasure'. Fascinating collection, but interesting to me for another reason. Once, when taking part in a rescue…
Is it me?
Someone recently asked me, having just finished reading Turn of the Tide, if Kate (the wife of my main character) was me? I can honestly say that thought had never…
If you think 17th c miners were uneducated – think again!
Tom Williams talks about lead mining in 17thc Scotland - I'm glad I was a child in the latter part of the 20thc!! I haven't visited Leadhills (on my to…
Testosterone, cortisol and crossing your arms.
How important is body language? A lot more so than you might think. Ann Cuddy shares some body language insights - question - do I really want to raise my…
Am I ‘sad’?
I have the feeling that it may be a little 'sad' to find this article in the Guardian interesting - but it is about words - and in particular how…
Should this be a novel?
Fascinating glimpse of the journal of an anonymous sailor. 1) I want to go and see it. 2) There is surely novel material in here somewhere. 3) Lady Hester Stanhope…
Lovely interview I’d forgotten I’d done until it went live this week.
Thank you to LibraryofErana for inviting me to answer questions on their blog. Great questions and I hope that you'll find the answers interesting. 9i did re-reading it having forgotten…
Is there or isn’t there? A Guardian take on Literary Fiction.
One sentence in the opening of this article jumps out at me - 'Jane Austen...wrote fiction to entertain and to make money. And that is what we novelists have been…
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