Writing Challenge Days 16 and 17: Favourite outfits

Haha! I’m not a follower of fashion and tend to wear clothes for comfort such as jeans and top so instead of showing you my favourite outfit (Day16) and my character’s (Day 17) I’m combining them.

Egged on (albeit genteely) by fellow authors going to the 2019 Eboracum Roman Festival, I decided to try to […]

September 14th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Alternate history, Characters, Personal, Roma Nova, Women warriors, Writing challenge | Leave a comment

Writing Challenge Day 5: What inspired the book I'm working on

That’s an easy one – the readers!

No, really! I wrote The Girl from the Market after a suggestion in the Roma Nova Enthusiasts’ Group. Legend had it (in the earlier Roma Nova novels) that in AD 370 Julia Bacausa was a tough and fiery woman and Apulius a strong Roman of the traditional […]

August 21st, 2020 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Books, Characters, New book, Readers, Roma Nova, Short stories, Writing challenge | Leave a comment

Day 2 Writing challenge: introduce your Work in Progress

To be truthful, I have two projects on the go at present, but let’s not complicate life!

Now I’m going back in time to AD 370…

The Roma Nova series has two main strands: one with four books set in the 21st century featuring Carina Mitela and the other set between the late 1960s […]

August 16th, 2020 | Tags: , , , | Category: Alternate history, Books, New book, Roma Nova, ROMA NOVA EXTRA, Writing challenge, Writing life | Leave a comment

Inspired or over-imaginative? On the Alliance of Independent Authors podcast

Absolutely thrilled to be invited on to the Alliance podcast, hosted by Howard Lovy. And even more so as it features ‘inspirational authors’ Not quite sure I’m inspirational, but that’s enough imposter syndrome. 😉

Like many people, I always take a (mental) deep breath before an audio interview as you can’t see who is going […]

September 2nd, 2019 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: ALLi, Alternate history, Getting published, Podcasts, Q&A, Writing life, Writing skills | Leave a comment

Crossing the genres

Kylara Vatta from Trading in Danger, Elizabeth Moon Eowyn, Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Carina Mitela, PERFIDITAS, Alison Morton

When I started pounding on my keyboard, I just wanted to tell a story. There’d be adventures and Romans, a heroine, a love interest, good guys and bad guys, a ton of action and […]

April 8th, 2019 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Alternate history, Books, Genres, Marketing skills, Readers, Writing skills | Leave a comment
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