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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 […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 8th, 2019 | Tags: Books, Characters, Discovering Diamonds Reviews, historical, historical fiction, short story, StorySong | Category: Authors, Books, Other people's websites/blogs, Promotion, Short stories | Comments are closed 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 […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 3rd, 2019 | Tags: Books, Characters, historical, historical fiction, Tudors | Category: Authors, Books, Guests, Women's history | Comments are closed Darryl and Paul Bennett Today, my guest is the delightful Paul Bennett who lives in the New England town of Salem, Massachusetts with his wife Daryl and writes historical fiction, the first of which The Clash of Empires is set during the French and Indian Wars. Discovering his future did not include the […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 5th, 2017 | Tags: Classics, French and Indian Wars, historical, historical fiction | Category: Authors, Books, Guests | One comment - (Comments are closed) 
My guest today is Antoine Vanner is author of the Dawlish Chronicles, naval fiction set in the 1870s and 1880s. His latest novel, Britannia’s Gamble, was published last month (October 2017). Royal Navy officer Nicholas Dawlish is a fascinating character, very much in the mould of Hornblower, something that attracted me to Antoine’s novels. The […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!November 2nd, 2017 | Tags: historical, historical fiction, historical realism, historical research, naval fiction | Category: Authors, Genres, Guests, Other people's websites/blogs, Research, Useful stuff, Writing skills | 12 comments - (Comments are closed) You know the score – a crowd of writers keen to learn and interact and readers eager to adore the great ones, hurrying from pillar to post, same old topics thrashed over, expensive food, even more expensive drink, lots of undercurrents and exclusive events, groups and cliques and a carefully orchestrated bookshop with selected titles. […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!August 30th, 2017 | Tags: author panels, author talks, Barbara Erskine, Charroux, conferences, France, historical fiction, lit fest, new writers | Category: Authors, Events, France, Readers, Roma Nova, Writing life, Writing skills | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
   
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