(Photo: Uschi Hering)
*Falls over laughing*
Right I’m going to try to take this seriously (Puts on stern face)
My first characters had been running around in my head for years before I tapped the keyboard so they were fully formed when I started to write the Roma Nova stories. Of course, I’ve […]
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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 […]
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Julia Bacausa
AD 370, Virunum, Roman Noricum
Julia Bacausa, passionate daughter of a local Celtic ruler, miserable and tense after a failed marriage and only half-divorced, can see no future life for herself.
Lucius Apulius, a bright young military tribune thrown out of a prestigious command that would have made his career. He’s […]
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Can music inspire a story? It seems so!
I’m taking part in the December StorySong short story fest organised by Discovering Diamonds Reviews’ organiser Helen Hollick.
Each day, there’s a new story and a chance to guess the song/music that inspired it. There have been some crackers so far!
Mine comes on 17 December, the […]
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No, not Julio-Claudians or other Romans, but that powerful and intermarried ruling family, the Tudors and their connections.
This Thursday’s guest is Tony Riches, a full-time UK author of best-selling historical fiction. He lives in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the history of the Wars of the Roses and the lives […]
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