On my blog today, I am welcoming author JANE LOFTUS, to learn more about her debut novel, The Herb Knot, set in the fourteenth century during the turbulent times of The Hundred Years' War. As well as finding out more about the book and where to buy it, you can also read an article from Jane …
Tag: 14th century
“Goings-on” in medieval nunneries
I have recently finished writing the next book in my Meonbridge Chronicles series, set in medieval England. This story centres, not on Meonbridge, as the other novels do for the most part, but on a priory, to which one of the characters in the first Chronicle, Fortune’s Wheel, departed under something of a cloud. I always …
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 …
Pandemic then and now…
I wrote much of this piece a couple of weeks ago for a smaller audience, but I thought I’d like to share it more widely, as our present global “pandemic” happens to have come at the very moment when I’m again writing about pandemic, so it’s uppermost in my writer’s mind right now… I’d hate …
Medieval gardens
(Post first published on The History Girls blogspot.) Last month, my post looked at various aspects of food and eating in the 14th century, the period of my current fiction series, using a few descriptions from my novels as a shortcut to the evidence I have gleaned over my relatively brief time as an historical novelist. …