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New Year, New Novel: The Bull At The Gate

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Seasonal Greetings to All My Friends

Well, I don't cut it much finer than this, but the house is sparkling - with polish as well as tinsel - the food is in, the presents are wrapped, the drink is chilling...



All that remains is for me to wish all my readers the most glorious Festive Season. May the New Year bring love and gifts to you and yours, and the insight to reciprocate with twice as much.



Linda

My Writing Process - Blog Tour

Today is Blog Tour Day where authors answer questions about their writing process. Lindsay Townsend, historical romance novelist, posted last week, and I thank her for my invite. Check out her writing process at http://www.lindsaytownsend.net



As for mine, well do come in. Step over the files on the carpet, push the maps off the spare chair and make yourself comfortable. Untidy office? You

The Bull At The Gate excerpt

I've just passed the 85,000 word mark on the w-i-p The Bull At The Gate, which means that I am on track for hitting The End at around the estimated 100k target. Although I do a lot of research planning, I don't plan out my chapters to any great degree as my workflow is organic and relies heavily on the nuances of previous scenes. I'll be talking more on this on the 25th when it's my turn to

Remembrance Sunday

I'm watching the television programmes marking the march by the Cenotaph in London, listening to the ladies who worked long hours at Bletchley Park deciphering code during WW2, to men and women coping with combat stress after the Falklands, the Gulf War, and all the rest, to the young men with missing limbs determined to build a new life for themselves. And I think of the local families

Beware the Glitter of #NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is prepping to go. Are you signing on for the wild ride?NaNoWriMo is the shortform for (Inter)National Novel Writing Month which takes place annually. The intention is, within the 30 days of November, to write 50,000 words making up a dirty draft of a novel. It is as much a test of planning skills and endurance as it is of literary endeavour, but there is a lot of help at hand on the

Author Spotlight - Felicity Heaton's Passionate Paranormals

Today I am welcoming prolific paranormal writer, Felicity Heaton, to give readers a taste of something different. Take it away, Felicity!

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It’s wonderful to be here at
Linda’s blog to talk about my new book, Her Wicked Angel, which is the sixth in
my Her Angel romance series.



I’m going to be sharing an
excerpt from the book with you

North Street, York - Past, Present & Fictional

I’ve always loved maps, and the various Ordnance Survey maps of Britain have been a source of fantastic research detail for a lot of my fiction. I’m currently writing The Bull At The Gate, the second in the Torc of Moonlight trilogy, set in modern and Roman York, and managed to get my hands on a map which superimposes Roman finds on the street detail of modern York. Manna from heaven.One

NaNoWriMo - and those who [don’t] can’t

For reasons I won’t go into – it’s a lengthy list – I’ve been nearly three weeks away from applying a keystroke to The Bull At The Gate. This is not good. Especially as I am well within its last quarter.

Not only have I lost the emotional surge of the main character that went with cranking up the ante, but the quiet tapping from the shaky structure of one of the three intersecting storylines

Home again, Home again, clickety-click

Except it’s not quite that simple. Is anything?





Just returned from a great holiday in the Austrian/Swiss
Alps where we travelled on the Bernina Express (three spectacular glaciers) and
the Glacier Express (but saw no glaciers on the Davos-Andermatt section). Okay,
so I’ve got a thing about