Home Again
Alas no blog this week. I will slide back into my desk care tomorrow, refreshed with new ideas, and write…but first coffee
Author’s Blog
The Use of Heraldry
Join Rue Allyn as she explains how Medieval heraldry plays a significant part in her novel The Trials of Neilina MacKai. Nearly every anglophile recognizes the heraldic emblem of the United Kingdom’s royal family. Many would even recognize emblems representing past rulers of England and Scotland. The Trials of Neilina MacKai takes place during a […]
Old Friends and Archtypes
Once characters, fully formed and alive, populate an authors head, they and their friends and relatives keep coming back. You may remember the complicated family connections in The Ashmead Heirs, in which the old earl’s bastards were named in his will and given all the unentailed property. The Bensons and the Caulfields and their friends […]
The Cefn Flight or Fourteen Locks
Please join Misty Urban for the facts about the Monmouthshire Canal and the Cefn Flight, the setting for her novel The Knight Falls First. Something that drew me to 1799 Newport, Wales, for the setting of my books Viscount Overboard and its sequel, The Knight Falls First, were the enormous changes overtaking the area at […]
Hitting Milestones
One down and one to go in my parade of novellas. “Well Done, Harry” went to the editor Friday. To get it there I had to consolidate comments from my beta readers***, edit it, add an author’s note and my bio, and proof it word by word. For that last step, I’m now using the […]