Writing what you *don’t* know…

One of the wonderful aspects of writing fiction – and perhaps especially writing historical fiction – is that your imagination will drive you to include scenes in which your characters engage in some activity or other that you know absolutely nothing about. So, you have to consult books, and the internet, and other resources, in …

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“The dark lady of DNA” (blog tour)

I am delighted today to be joining the Coffee Pot Book Club blog tour to tell you about an intriguing and unusual historical novel, Rosalind: DNA’s Invisible Woman by Jessie Mills, and to share an excerpt from the book. What is Rosalind all about? Well, it certainly looks intriguing! Blurb “A luminous, pin-sharp portrait of a true trailblazer. Mills’s writing simply …

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