A Shape on the Air – Julia Ibbotson

Portrait photo of Julia IbbotsonI’m delighted to welcome Julia Ibbotson to the blog to highlight her excellent time-slip novel A Shape on the Air. (Here in Roma Nova, time twisting is always attractive.)

Fascinated by the medieval world and the concept of time, Julia  has written historical mysteries with a frisson of romance. Her books are evocative of time and place, well-researched and uplifting page-turners. Her current series focuses on early medieval time-slip/dual-time mysteries.

Julia read English at Keele University, England, specialising in medieval language, literature  and history, and has a PhD in socio-linguistics. After a turbulent time in Ghana, West Africa, she became a school teacher, then a university academic and researcher. Her break as an author came soon after she joined the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme in 2015, with a three-book deal from Lume Books for a trilogy (Drumbeats) set in Ghana in the 1960s.

She went on to publish five other books, including A Shape on the Air, an Anglo-Saxon timeslip mystery, and its two sequels The Dragon Tree and The Rune Stone. Her latest novel is the first of a new series of Anglo-Saxon dual-time mysteries, Daughter of Mercia, where echoes of the past resonate across the centuries.

Her books will appeal to fans of Barbara Erskine, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley, and Christina Courtenay. Her readers say: ‘Julia’s books captured my imagination’, ‘beautiful story-telling’, ‘evocative and well-paced storylines’, ‘brilliant and fascinating’ and ‘I just couldn’t put it down’.

I’ve read A Shape on the Air, the first in the Dr DuLac series and can confirm all this is true!

Today, Julia is taking A Shape on the Air on an intensive one-day blog tour, visiting many excellent blogs.

Happy touring, Julia! 

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What’s A Shape in the Air about?

Can echoes of the past threaten the present? They are 1,500 years apart, but can they reach out to each other across the centuries? One woman faces a traumatic truth in the present day. The other is forced to marry the man she hates as the ‘Dark Ages’ unfold.

How can Dr Viv DuLac, medievalist and academic, unlock the secrets of the past?

Traumatised by betrayal, she slips into 499 AD and into the body of Lady Vivianne, who is also battling treachery. Viv must uncover the mystery of the key that she unwittingly brings back with her to the present day, as echoes of the past resonate through time.

But little does Viv realise just how much both their lives across the centuries will become so intertwined. And in the end, how can they help each other across the ages without changing the course of history?

Buy the book here: https://myBook.to/ASOTA

Or read on KindleUnlimited (subscription required.)

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Connect with Julia
Website: https://juliaibbotsonauthor.com
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/@juliaibbotson
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Amazon Author Page: https://Author.to/JuliaIbbotsonauthor
Goodreads: https://goodreads.com/juliaibbotson
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Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers –  INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO,  AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO  and RETALIO,  and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories.  Audiobooks are available for four of the series. Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. JULIA PRIMA,  Roma Nova story set in the late 4th century, starts the Foundation stories. The sequel, EXSILIUM, is now out.

Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines and taste world the latest contemporary thriller Double Identity… Download ‘Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email update. As a result, you’ll be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.

Summer vacuum – the time of little writing

Summer relaxationUpdated and republished

Hooray! Summer is here; warm, lazy days, extra wine, days out with the family and friends, a holiday away.  Mmm.

We have two scenarios before us:

The first:

You have a deadline looming, your fans are waiting, your muse is bashing away in your head with fantastic scenes you simply must write. And then you’re speaking or attending conferences and festivals. No time to have time off. Guilt sets in…

The second:

Mentally and emotionally, you’ve ground to a halt with your writing. Perhaps like me you had a book out in the spring  (Double Stakes) and/or a short story in a collection (Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic) maybe it’s your body and Stone Age brain instinctively reacting to the longer days, the warmer air, the luxurious leaves and colourful blooms in the garden. The urge to get outside is almost overwhelming. But shouldn’t you be writing? Again, guilt sets in…

But let’s introduce some balance here…

1. Nobody can work 365 days of the year. Well, they can, but what a dull person they’d be, and probably an early inhabitant of the graveyard.

2. Set realistic goals. Halve your usual target and prepare for that goal to be disrupted as friends and family visit, children return from university, or neighbours invite you to barbecues or lunchevery few days.

3. Sales dwindle in the summer, so don’t stress about the sales figures. (Actually, stressing sales figures at any time is not good for you.)

4. View your holidays as research trips if your conscience is bothering you. Not just Roman walls, medieval castles or mosaics, but an opportunity to watch people out of their normal environment or see other environments altogether. And swimming in the (hopefully) warm, salty sea gets you in touch with your tactile side.

5. Snatch time when doing other things to do small writing tasks like looking things up, sending an email to a blogger, drafting a dialogue. Amazing how you can think through a scene while mixing a salad or watering the plants!

6. Work on a little project. I’ve just put together ‘The 500 Word Writing Buddy‘. It was a compilation of articles from the past few years of my writing and publishing column in The Deux-Sèvres Monthly.  I worked on it intermittently over the one summer then printed out some paper copies for selling at local fairs and fetes and sold out at a fair that Christmas.  It’s now updated – another summer project a few years later – and also available widely as an ebook.

So, relax a little while the sun is shining and read a good book or two…

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P.S. If it’s really hot where you are, you may find this post helpful about keeping your house/hotel room cool.

 Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers –  INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO,  AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO  and RETALIO,  and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories.  Audiobooks are available for four of the series. Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. JULIA PRIMA,  Roma Nova story set in the late 4th century, starts the Foundation stories. The sequel, EXSILIUM, is now out.

Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines and taste world the latest contemporary thriller Double Identity… Download ‘Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email update. As a result, you’ll be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.

The fate of the conquered – Annie Whitehead

Today, Annie Whitehead, a fellow contributor to ‘Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic, visits my blog! She’s a prize-winning writer, historian, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has written four award-winning novels set in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Mercia. Apart from contributing to fiction and nonfiction anthologies and writting for various magazines, Annie has twice been a prize winner in the Mail on Sunday Novel Writing Competition, and won First Prize in the 2012 New Writer Magazine’s Prose and Poetry Competition.

In addition, she’s been a finalist in the Tom Howard Prize for nonfiction and was shortlisted for the Exeter Story Prize and Trisha Ashley Award 2021. In 2017, she won the inaugural Historical Writers’ Association (HWA)/Dorothy Dunnett Prize and was subsequently a judge for that same competition. She has also been a judge for the HNS (Historical Novel Society) Short Story Competition, and was a 2024 judge for the HWA Crown Nonfiction Award.

Her nonfiction books are Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (a #1 Amazon Best-seller, published by Amberley books) and Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England (Pen & Sword Books). In 2023, she contributed to a new history of English monarchs, published by Hodder & Stoughton, and in February 2025, Murder in Anglo-Saxon England was published by Amberley Books.

Over to Annie to tell us about her story in Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic.

One definition of fate is ‘the development of events outside a person’s control’. I think it’s fair to say that this applies to those who were caught up in the maelstrom that followed the battle of Hastings in 1066.

We all know who won that fight, even if there are conflicting stories about how Harold Godwineson met his death. William of Normandy was victorious and, whilst much remained the same in England – for example, certainly to start with, William retained much of the machinery of government – for the English people, life was very different.

William the Conqueror and Harold II Godwinson

History is not only written by the victors, as the classic saying goes, it is also more often than not written by men, about men in power. That is why we know so much about the battle and much less about those in the towns and villages whose lives were altered in other ways.

For my story in our new anthology, Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic, I thought about the people who were affected by the outcome of the battle, and what life had been like for them, and what it would become, and there are definitely parallels to be drawn with other periods in history, even into modern times.

Firstly, I imagined what it must have felt like not only to be invaded, but not to be able to understand anything your new masters said. This must have been the reality; folk working the land in England, as opposed to serving in the king’s court, would have no knowledge at all of Norman French, and I daresay the Norman soldiers had no understanding of English. This must have been the case so often in history, where vanquished nations suddenly found that their language was not understood or, in the case of Wales and Ireland, and to a lesser extent Scotland, the languages were banned or suppressed at various points in their history. How terrifying and alienating that must have been. People subject to such laws had no say in the matter. All was decided for them. It was their fate.

Soldiers die on the battlefield, but women suffer in different ways. There were many forced marriages in England after the battle, and we can only imagine how terrifying that would be for the English women to whom this happened. But something else bothered me: what these people had already lived through. Often times when we write or read about people at a particular moment in history, we perhaps don’t think about what else they witnessed or what happened to them, events not of their making, but their destiny, nevertheless.

Beddingham Church (Photo: tristan forward CC BY-SA 2.0)

In the story, an old grandmother in an English village (Beddingham in Sussex, which still exists) tries her best to protect her daughter from the new Norman lord. But her tale is more than this, for she is old enough to have remembered other invasions. She saw her Danish father put to death merely for being Danish. She was chased out of her home town by a new wave of Danes, this time for being too English. For her generation, the invasion and subsequent takeover of England by Cnut was an upset to the order of their lives. There were battles up and down the kingdom as Cnut fought first the forces of Æthelred the ‘Unready’ and then his son, Edmund Ironside. As she settled in her new home, she says, she thought never to see such things again in her lifetime. And yet here she is, suffering from yet another, this time Norman, invasion and conquest.

Elisabeth

Great-grandmother Elisabeth

My own maternal granny was born in 1907, and so was a young child when World War One broke out. She, like many others of her generation never thought to see such things again in her lifetime and yet, in 1939, the world went to war again.

My paternal great-grandmother came from a small village which was technically in no-man’s land, but very close to the Belgian/German border. Her name was Elisabeth, and she sounded German. Living in England during both world wars, she was spat on in the street by those who thought she was German.

Postcard showing Neutral Moresnet, the village Annie’s great-grandmother came from (At the southernmost part of the Neutrales Gebiet shown in white)

My tale is of refugees, of conquered territories, of strangers not being accepted, of violence and prejudice, of ‘never again’ becoming ‘yes, again’. It happened nearly a thousand years ago, but it resonates today. History sadly continues to repeat itself, and so often the ‘little’ people, those who have no vote, no say in the decision-making process, are at the mercy of events.

For them, it is not their choice, it is their fate.

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Connect with Annie

Website: https://anniewhiteheadauthor.co.uk/
Blog: https://anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/
Amazon: http://viewauthor.at/Annie-Whitehead
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnnieWHistory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anniewhiteheadauthor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anniewhiteheadauthor/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/anniehistory.bsky.social

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Read To Be A Queen, the true story of Æthelflæd, the ‘Lady of the Mercians’, daughter of Alfred the Great and the only female leader of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

Cover of To Be A QueenOne family, two kingdoms, one common enemy …

Born into the royal house of Wessex at the height of the Viking wars, Æthelflæd is sent to her aunt in Mercia as a foster-child, only to return home when the Vikings overrun Mercia. In Wessex, she witnesses another Viking attack and this compounds her fear of the enemy.

She falls in love with a Mercian lord but is heartbroken to be given as bride to the ruler of Mercia to seal the alliance between the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. She must learn to subjugate her feelings for her first love, overcome her indifference to her husband and win the hearts of the Mercians who despise her as a foreigner and twice make an attempt on her life.

When her husband falls ill and is incapacitated, she has to learn to rule and lead an army in his stead. Eventually she must fight to save her adopted Mercia from the Vikings and, ultimately, her own brother.

Buy To Be A Queen here: https://mybook.to/To-Be-A-Queen

 

Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers –  INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO,  AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO  and RETALIO,  and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories.  Audiobooks are available for four of the series. Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. JULIA PRIMA,  Roma Nova story set in the late 4th century, starts the Foundation stories. The sequel, EXSILIUM, is now out.

Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines and taste world the latest contemporary thriller Double Identity… Download ‘Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email update. As a result, you’ll be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.

Carol Drinkwater's notes on writing

I’m delighted to welcome writing friend Carol Drinkwater to the blog. She’s a multi-award winning actress and writer, possibly best known for her portrayal of Helen Herriot in the BBC’s original television series, All Creatures Great and Small.

Carol is the author of twenty-four books, both fiction and non-fiction. She has achieved bestselling status – over a million copies sold worldwide – with her much-loved quartet of memoirs set on her olive farm in the south of France, The Olive Farm series. 

Carol’s fascination with the olive tree extended to a seventeen-month solo Mediterranean journey in search of the tree’s mythical secrets. The resulting, bestselling travel books, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree, were adapted into a five-part documentary film series, which has been screened all over the world.

Carol’s novels include The Forgotten Summer,  The Lost Girl which was one of LoveReading’s Books of the Year 2017,  The House on the Edge of the Cliff published in May 2019 and  An Act of Love published early 2021.

In 2022/23, Channel 5 in the UK screened a six-part series titled Carol Drinkwater’s Secret Provence. It is still being screened worldwide, garnering millions of viewers internationally.

Carol’s latest novel, One Summer in Provence, published by Corvus Atlantic is out today.

I was introduced to Carol by another Carole, (with an ‘e’), the late Carole Blake, the agent’s agent, and one of the most significant figures in to publishing world until she very sadly left us  in 2016. We also drank a few drams together back in the day. Anyway, I needed some advice about my olive tree and how to harvest and process the fruit. Carole put me in touch with fellow French resident Carol and we’ve remained in contact ever since.

I asked Carol D what her secret was to her long and successful writing career.  Here, she generously let us into her secret…

When I take creative writing courses, I usually begin by saying that I have no secrets, no magic formulae to share. There is no magic wand, no key that will unlock that wretchedly stubborn door that leads beyond to the glorious and endless plains of ‘forever-renewable creativity’. How I wish!

The late W. Somerset Maugham, novelist, playwright and author of brilliant short stories is famously quoted as saying: “There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

Although I think this comment is as true as anything else that has been said about the craft of writing, I do believe that each of us can find and define our own personal set of pointers – pointers not rules; rules are there to be broken.

No writer will argue with the advice that to be a good writer one must read, read, read. Read anything you like, whatever you enjoy. No snobbism here. Each writer will build from the bricks of their experiences, their years of reading, their life adventures. When I was at drama school, one of our directors used to drum into us the importance of visiting museums, reading a daily newspaper, frequenting the cinema, and devouring all the books, plays, we could lay our hands on. I have tried all my life to follow this wise advice. Broaden your mind, see all points of view.

Reading allows us to see how wide – how parameterless – are the parameters.

Sit at your desk; be present. If you don’t turn up for the job you are not a writer. No one else is going to write that book. YOUR book. You cannot wait for the Muse to strike. She is far too fickle and will almost always find an excuse as to why today is not the day to begin. TODAY IS THE DAY. Sit down, open that blank page …

Now I am at my desk in front of that terrifying page. After weeks or even months of deliberation. What comes next? Personally, I begin with two important images. A character and a location. Geographical locations are very important to me. I need to SEE the places my characters inhabit. I am a woman who relates to nature, the earth, the sea, so these will regularly appear in my scene-setting.

Usually, during my period of preparation, I will have asked myself: What is exciting me right now, making me angry, elated, passionate? My principal characters are usually women. I am a woman and I’m fascinated by the emotions, the inner journeys of women: their pain, challenges, triumphs. I began my professional life as an actress; I studied at a drama school in London where we spent much of our time learning to trace the inner maps of our characters, to really KNOW the people we were attempting to portray. I have carried this advice, this method of work, forward into my writing world.

Many novelists plot their books; their narrative is built in predetermined stages; stages that are, to one degree or another, decided in advance of the writing process.

I WISH I could do that but, alas, I don’t seem able to work that way. I go into my story more or less from a place of darkness and I travel in this twilight zone for much of the journey with light flashes along the way. There are times when I have no idea where I am or where I am going. Scary! I have to trust that the characters will talk to me, to one another, to interact and lead me forward. TRUST is an imperative when writing, no matter which method you use to weave your story. There will be times of doubt and those are the times when you most need that trust.

Believe in yourself, in your characters and your unformed story.

My latest novel, One Summer in Provence (published today, 3rd July) began with the idea of visitors. One family member arrives with a companion: an unknown who doesn’t give a fig for the rules of the house, has no respect for the hosts. A stranger striding confidently into another’s life, riding roughshod. It was mid-summer when I started this novel. I live in the south of France so summer means heat, blinding light and a never-ending stream of guests to stay. Long, lazy meals al fresco.

It was post-Covid when I began One Summer in Provence. Like everyone else, my husband and I had been deprived of visitors, of travel. We’d been here for months alone on our small farm. Then, suddenly, a burst of faces, new energies. Some we knew, some we didn’t. I took all these elements into my writing room and began from there. As I said, I had no idea where I was going but I tried to allow Celia – my principal character, the novel’s protagonist – to lead me forward.  I had a springboard for my departure. Sometimes a story arc begins to appear within days, with a vague conclusion at tunnel’s end.

This novel really surprised me. I had no idea that the final scenes would play out as they have. And that is part of the JOY of writing, the surprise elements. When the trust pays off.

So, here, briefly, are one or two Carol D pointers. Not rules. They are mine; you will build your own. The more you write the more the process takes form.

Keep it SIMPLE. The text doesn’t need to be ‘more intellectual’, ‘cleverer’, a display of ‘big words’. Truth and simplicity are your allies. Picasso said that it took him till the age of 90 to learn to paint like a child.

Your reader is your companion. You are on this journey together. Be kind and generous. Treat your readers as your treasured travelling companions. Laugh, cry with them, share moments together. Open your heart to them. Never try to pretend you know better.

Relish the business of writing, even when it’s tough. It will be tough more times than it’s not, and you are going to be at your desk sweating it out for the best part of every day, so be kind to yourself and cheer the goals. The pleasure you create for yourself, those moments of victory, will be embedded in the text and they will equally delight your readers.

This job is a huge privilege. If you are also earning a living at it you are blessed beyond measure. When you hold that finished manuscript, even rough draft, there’s the magic.

Bonne chance!

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Connect with Carol
Website: www.caroldrinkwater.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olive.farm/
Bluesky: @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social
Instagram: carol4olivefarm
Mastodon: @Olivefarmbooks Mastodon.ie
Twitter/X: Carol4OliveFarm

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Carol’s new book – One Summer in Provence

Cover of One Summer in ProvenceCelia Grey appears to have the perfect life: married to Dominic, the man of her dreams, and living on a glorious, thriving vineyard in the south of France. To celebrate their good fortune, she decides to throw a huge party.

When she is contacted by a stranger who claims to be her long-lost son, David, the newborn she gave up at twenty and has never spoken of since, Celia impulsively invites him for the weekend of celebrations – without mentioning it to her husband.

Despite his surprise, Dominic graciously welcomes David and his unexpected companion – but secretly he harbours doubts. Is David really Celia’s son? And who is the mysterious young woman travelling with him?

Only Celia can decide how far she will go to hold everything together, to keep her perfect life from unravelling…

One Summer in Provence is a story of betrayal and belonging, and of discovering love in unexpected places. …

Buy One Summer in Provence here:  https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/one-summer-in-provence/

 

Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers –  INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO,  AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO  and RETALIO,  and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories.  Audiobooks are available for four of the series. Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. JULIA PRIMA,  Roma Nova story set in the late 4th century, starts the Foundation stories. The sequel, EXSILIUM, is now out.

Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines and taste world the latest contemporary thriller Double Identity… Download ‘Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email update. As a result, you’ll be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.

Keeping cool in the heat

Summer is here – warm, lazy days, extra wine, days out with the family and friends, a holiday away. But when the temperature is persistently over 30C, I tend to wilt. Yesterday reached 39C in the shade. My Muse has gone for a protracted lie down somewhere in a cool cave several metres underground.

Enter guilt – my new story is proceeding at ‘walking through tar speed’  as my brain has melted. But I am doing catch-up admin tasks and currently hosting some fabulous fellow writers on this blog, so not totally unproductive!

How to keep cool while trying to be creative?

I really don’t like air-conditioning – on principle on environmental grounds. Although comforting for us as individuals, we are collectively shoving hot air into the atmosphere at a rapid rate and contributing directly to climate change. It should be an absolute last resort and whether public or private, it should not be set at a silly level where you need to wear a cardigan or jacket indoors in a heatwave. Around 22-23C is perfectly fine. Even 24C is bearable to work in.

So what do I do here in southwest France in a heatwave? Fans, and coolers with a water/icepack tank, in every room powered by our solar panel system, ice, free and not drawing electricity from the grid.

But the true secret is one that has been practised for centuries in mainland Europe.

6 am – Indoor temperature overnight has been about 27C, even with the fans on sleep mode as the previous evening was 31C at 11pm. Open shutters and windows and breathe the morning air – a blissful 21C! Open one window wide and draw net across to stop flying insects entering. Our windows open inwards which makes this easy. Rinse and repeat around the whole house and treasure the cooler air flowing in.

Window open to let in cool air

Position the fan so it draws in the cooler air from the window. The temperature in the house drops by a few degrees.

Keep an eye on the outside temperature. By around 10 am, it’s risen to the same level the house interior has dropped to – 25 C. Time to close the (now double-glazed) windows.

Closed windows

Depending on where the sun is, then shutters should be closed on the latch. If shutters are completely closed tight, the heat of the sun on the shutters has nowhere to escape.

Windows and shutters closed

Then cower in darkened rooms until the daytime exterior temperature outside drops to below the interior temperature. If it does, then re-open the windows and let the fresher air in.

Above all, do not be tempted to open the windows during the heat of the day. All you will do is let the hot air in.

This system of using shutters and fans keeps the interior temperature to a reasonable level with little environment impact. If you don’t have shutters, then close your curtains instead.

Hopefully, this current heatwave will ease later this week. Until then, think of me at 6am, slightly bleary-eyed, starting the window and shutters process!

 

Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers –  INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO,  AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO  and RETALIO,  and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories.  Audiobooks are available for four of the series. Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. JULIA PRIMA,  Roma Nova story set in the late 4th century, starts the Foundation stories. The sequel, EXSILIUM, is now out.

Find out more about Roma Nova, its origins, stories and heroines and taste world the latest contemporary thriller Double Identity… Download ‘Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email update. As a result, you’ll be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.