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Stats are boring – right?

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:October 24, 2018
  • Post category:My Writing Life

Not being a mathematical sort of person (and being married to someone whose degree was in Statistics and with three children who have all been inclined to the sciences) I've…

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Why I write WW2 fiction by Clare Flynn

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:October 9, 2018
  • Post category:Visitor Posts

This week I received a forwarded email from Corazon (my ebook publisher) to inform me that Amazon had decided to offer Turn of the Tide as a monthly deal for…

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Munro meets the Poldarks.

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:September 6, 2018
  • Post category:My Writing Life

Now here's a thing - every writer has authors who have inspired them, whose work they admire and whom they would like to be compared to. For me, one of…

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By Sword and Storm – Review no 2

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:August 6, 2018
  • Post category:Book Reviews/My Writing Life

Well, I can't ask for any more, can I? - 'This is an author whose grasp of the period is absolute.' Review no 2 for ByS+S - Just reviewed Margaret…

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An Unexpected Pleasure

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 27, 2018
  • Post category:Interviews / Guest Blogging

Having a quick look on Facebook (yes I know I should already be working, but it is before 9.00 am)  I found a link to a lovely interview with me…

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The wait is over!

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 23, 2018
  • Post category:Book Reviews/My Writing Life

One week in from release of By Sword and Storm and the scary wait is over - the 1st review (verified purchase) has arrived. I can breathe again!   'A…

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Finally! By Sword and Storm.

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 21, 2018
  • Post category:My Writing Life

Many of you will know that I began By Sword and Storm in February 2016 at Hawthornden Castle - in atmospherically chilly conditions, when the central heating broke down -…

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A first for me – a feature in a German newspaper

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:May 22, 2018
  • Post category:Media Coverage/My Writing Life

Yesterday a link dropped onto my FB author page which, once I'd realised it was a link (several hours and someone's comment later) took me straight to an article in a German…

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A lovely lady – Drue Heinz

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:April 3, 2018
  • Post category:Articles/My Writing Life

The papers this week have been full of obituaries of Drue Heinz, the lovely lady who gave so generously to support writers in both the US and the UK. I…

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On this day 495 years ago

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:March 30, 2018
  • Post category:Articles

Easter Eve. A day of preparation and expectation in many Christian churches around the world. It is also a day of waiting, of taking time to reflect on the sombre…

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