I am delighted today to be joining the Coffee Pot Book Club blog tour to share an excerpt from Godwine Kingmaker, the first book in Mercedes Richelle's historical fiction series The Last Great Saxon Earls. What is the book about? They showed so much promise. What happened to the Godwines? How did they lose their …
Continue reading The Last Great Saxon Earls series by Mercedes Rochelle
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 …
Goodness, I posted my last blog back in May! I honestly hadn’t intended leaving it quite so long before writing another one but I have been somewhat distracted of late… And that distraction has not been because I’ve been tied to my desk writing the next Meonbridge Chronicle – although I AM indeed writing it, and …
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 …
“Inspirational homes” might put you in mind of a strapline blazoned across the front of a glossy interior décor magazine, but that’s not the sort of inspiration I’m going to talk about. In this post, and my next two, I thought I’d reveal a little about the real-life buildings that “inspire” me as I write …
Carolyn Hughes 