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A GALLERY OF WRITING LIFE
At the coalface: me in everyday mode.
Location research. Me at Castle Rising - which will feature in my Empress Matilda/Adeliza novel
With Jilll Mansell at The Reform Club during a dinner hosted by Sourcebooks owner Dominique Raccah. It had been pouring with rain and my hair had reacted by doing its own thing. It was straight when I set out from home that morning!
With friend and fellow author Penny Jordan at Whittington Castle
Putting the show on the Road: Folkestone Library
working on copy edits away from the PC
Akashic Record Session with Alison King.
book signing in WH Smiths
Visiting Pickering Castle while researching
Living the history with Regia Anglorum
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With 'The Deity' who runs my Yahoo reader list.
South Shields Library
RNA event at South Shields Library with Sue Moorcroft, Judy Astley,Benita Brown and two of the lovely library staff.
Paying respects at the tomb of William Marshal at the Temple Church in London
With author Isolde Martin at the RNA Conference in Leicester
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With reading buddy Tamara Mazzei, over from the USA and visiting the burial place of Nicola de la Haye at Swaton in Lincolnshire
A fellow family member investigates a medieval well!
Among a Gathering at the Cavalry and Guards Club for the launch of Loves Me Loves Me Not
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Spiffy me for the official author photo
3 comments:
That's absolutely wonderful news. Leopard Unleashed is the only book of yours that I do not own, and therefore have not read. I would happily have settled for the old copy had it been readily available, having read Wild Hunt and Running Vixen. I've bought the newer releases of these books and will reread them as soon as Leopard Unleashed is on the horizon. Ever since learning that you planned to update this early trilogy I have been anxiously awaiting it. Like I said earlier, "Great News!"
I've just discovered you and are in the midst of ordering the rest of your books... One remark re Crouch and Wm the Marshal, though: Crouch is a cleric. And he has the cleric's view of the athlete warrior, one of judgment and (sometimes ) disdain. For example, he is upset that in the big King John rebellion, Wm's son sided with the anti John Barons... but that makes total sense in a society where the land and the family are of prime importance. Who wouldn't try to work both sides of the fence in that awful situation? The Despencers, father and son, made the huge mistake of being on the SAME side, and look what happened to them?
Anyway, I have long been a fan of Wm the Marshal (I have copies of the Painter and Duby books, and now, because of you, Crouch), and must thank you so much for writing that book, "The Greatest Knight", and am awaiting the next one, "Scarlet Lion."! I checked the translation of the Marshal saga, and gosh, it is just too expensive!
I so totally a fan of yours!
also, somewhere, I came across your remark about "The Wild Hunt", in which it seems that most of the characters (aside from the central ones) were real people. In particular, that Robert de Belleme was actually a total psycho. Where can I find that?
Also, thanks so much for talking about the de Clare brothers, and your not unlikely theory that they were complicit in the murder of Wm Rufus!
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