Kindle 1600s style.
If you think that the idea of being able to travel with a whole library of books came in with the invention of the Kindle, think again. The Bodleian Library…
The Crusades – Complex History
I have to confess to be woefully ignorant about the history of the Crusades, but articles like this one really whet my appetite to know more. What it instantly shows…
Freebie – final figures
It's been an exciting week - starting last Thursday when Capercaillie set Turn of the Tide to free download until Tuesday night. As I watched the book soar up the…
When you hit a dry spell…
Here's some good advice from Suzanne Lakin on how to get through a dry spell in your writing and turn a negative into a positive. The short story is something…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘Imaginative people have messy minds’
So says the Huffington Post. It also says that creative folk - daydream (a good excuse then) - are good observers - enjoy solitude - seek new experiences - are…