After my awayday in London, I arrived back on Saturday evening at The Old Swan in Harrogate in perfect time for a glass of red with Conn Iggulden, Simon Turney, Angus Donald, Harry Sidebottom, Derek Birks and Giles Christian. And what a sparky group that was; Viking axes, Roman ball-bearings and medieval sex!
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November 3rd, 2014 | Tags: conferences, Harrogate History Festival, historical, Rome, Vikings | Category: Authors, Events, Romans, Women's history | Comments are closed
Perhaps I should add fun… What in Hades am I talking about? I stumbled upon this post from Author Learning Centre called ‘Brand Development for Authors: Discovering Your Visual Identity‘. It encouraged you to list five words that sum up your book or series in order to help develop a visual image to firm up […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!November 1st, 2014 | Tags: brands, visibility | Category: Insights, Provocations | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Last weekend (well, from Thursday evening), I attended the Harrogate History Festival, but I took a break on the Saturday for an awayday to London. And I wasn’t in the bar at The Lamb in Conduit Street just for the mouthwatering steak & kidney pie and chips! Upstairs in the meeting room, Christina Courtenay (historical […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 30th, 2014 | Category: Alternate history, Authors, Events, Genres, Romantic Novelists' Association, Writing skills | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Conferences can be stimulating, fun or exhausting, or possibly all three. It’s wise to prepare beforehand, not just your travel tickets and hotel bookings, but which sessions you want to go to. Then you find out you want to go to all of them. Then you discover the conference clashes with a promised speaking engagement. […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 27th, 2014 | Tags: conferences, Harrogate History Festival, historical | Category: Authors, Events | Comments are closed Ruth Downie read too much Jane Austen at university, emerged with an English degree and a plan to get married and live happily ever after. As a backup she learned typing and shorthand, in the mistaken beliefs that people would always need secretaries and that she might be quite good at it. Finally escaping into […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 23rd, 2014 | Tags: Books, Crime, historical, mystery, Roman medicine, Rome | Category: Authors, Genres, Guests, Research, Romans | 8 comments - (Comments are closed) |
   
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