Over at Victoria Lamb's blog today

Victoria LambPhoto by Anna Rybacka

Victoria Lamb is a very well-known, if not downright famous, writer of historical fiction. Fellow Romantic Novelist Association member and Latin-lover (no, not that sort!), she’s been one of my staunchest supporters on my writing journey. She even offered me a fantastic endorsement to go in the front […]

Post launch questions

The INCEPTIO launches in the UK and France were terrific, the French one small, intimate, the UK one a grand affair at Waterstones Tunbridge Wells – I loved both. I basked in the enthusiasm, well-wishing and sheer fun for days. People bought the book at the events and afterwards in shedloads and then the reviews […]

A great opening line...

I just had to post this:

Pacy thriller with fascinating alternative history setting, 6 April 2013 By Mrs. Deborah Young “Debbie Young By Name” Amazon Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: INCEPTIO (Roma Nova) (Kindle Edition)

“The boy lay in the dirt in the centre of New York’s Kew Park…”

A great opening […]

New year, new blog title!

What?

When I first started this blog on World Book Day not quite three years ago (4 March 2010) I had just signed my indentures as a mad newbie writer, so the title Write a Novel? I must be mad! was an appropriate one. While I will never give up learning – no human being, […]

Alternate history and the butterfly of doom

A butterfly in the Amazon jungle makes that little extra flutter of its wings and a few weeks later there’s a storm or even a hurricane in the Caribbean that wrecks cities. That’s a little crudely put, but this is the idea behind Edward Lorenz’s chaos theory. In reality, the butterfly’s flapping wing is just […]