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MM Bennetts

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:September 7, 2014
  • Post category:Interviews / Guest Blogging/Visitor Posts

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…

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Weather, word count and (the vagaries of) WordPress

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 9, 2014
  • Post category:My Writing Life

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…

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Money, money, money…

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 7, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

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…

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Is it me?

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 5, 2014
  • Post category:My Writing Life

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…

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If you think 17th c miners were uneducated – think again!

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 3, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

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…

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Testosterone, cortisol and crossing your arms.

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:July 2, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

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…

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Am I ‘sad’?

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:June 28, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

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…

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Should this be a novel?

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:June 28, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

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…

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Lovely interview I’d forgotten I’d done until it went live this week.

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:June 26, 2014
  • Post category:Interviews / Guest Blogging

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…

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Is there or isn’t there? A Guardian take on Literary Fiction.

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:April 22, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

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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