Since I’ve been a published author, I’ve been invited from time to time to take part in “Q&A” interviews, which are posted on the website or blogspot of another author or a blogger. Sometimes these are published to support a blog tour for the launch of a new book, sometimes, the invitations come out of …
“Meonbridge” and the River Meon…
In the early days of my publishing career, I used this picture of the river as part of my promotional “branding”. I still occasionally use it, for it’s a picture that I love: © Carolyn Hughes This is a view of the river, very close to where I live. It’s not a grand river, for it …
An everyday story of country folk?
Today I’m revisiting a blog post I wrote three years ago. Some of you may have read much of this post before. But, for those who are new to my work, or are not already acquainted with the Meonbridge Chronicles, the post goes some way to explaining what type of historical fiction I write. Because “historical …
The fourth Chronicle is coming soon!
I'm delighted to share the cover for the next MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLE, Children's Fate, to be published very soon! How can a mother just stand by when her daughter is being cozened into sin? It’s 1360, eleven years since the Black Death devastated all of England, and six years since Emma Ward fled Meonbridge with her children, to …
Pandemic then and now, part 2…
The fourth book in my series, The Meonbridge Chronicles, is finished at last! It's called Children’s Fate, and I am hoping to publish it in the autumn. Children’s Fate, like the first three Chronicles, is of course a work of fiction. The characters come entirely from my imagination. The principal location, Meonbridge, is a fictitious village …
