Tag Archives: historical fiction
Trickster Eric Blog review
What a wonderful review for ‘Nici’s Christmas Tale’ from Brian Wilkerson writer and blogger Trickster Eric. There are spoilers in the whole review, after the spoiler warning. Here are some highlights! Brian has been a Troubadours fan right from the start, which makes his enthusiasm – and huge compliments!! – all the more important to…
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The Naming of Characters in The Troubadours Quartet
Author and blogger Elizabeth Noreen Newton asked me how I created the characters’ names in The Troubadours Quartet. I had no idea that the answer would be so long! There’s a list of characters at the beginning of ‘Song Hereafter’ and it gave me a shock to realise that I’d included a hundred real 12th…
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Watching your medieval language
How far should a historical novelist make her language antique-sounding? here are some of my thoughts in a blog for Mary Anne Yarde. ‘Thou shalt be like totally awesome’
