Pamela Hartshorne's Blog, page 8

Street carvings in Bruges

After an 11 year nagging campaign, I finally made it to Bruges last weekend. It’s a lovely city to wander around, small and so perfectly preserved you feel as if you’ve stumbled into a fairy tale.   [...]

5 questions to ask yourself before you start writing

Want to write a book and wondering where to start?  Ask yourself these five questions before you go any further. WHY? Writing a book is a lot of hard work for uncertain rewards, so make [...]

Part of a team …

Think a book is created by one person? Think again. Writing a book is only the start of the process.  It has to be edited, copy edited, and proof read.  The cover has to be [...]

Forthcoming events

You wait all year to be invited to speak in public, and then two events come along at once … Some authors hate public speaking, but I love it – I’m much better at showing [...]

Dogs in Elizabethan York

  When I’m not writing, or editing, or teaching, or going out for coffee, or planning a trip away or sitting in one of York’s many bars, all of which takes up a disproportionate amount [...]

A history of York in 100 pictures 12: Pavement

Pavement was one of the two principal market places of medieval York, its importance since earliest times reflected in the fact that it was one of the first paved areas in the city (hence its [...]

New technologies, past and present

I’ve been thinking about the past a lot recently. Not the distant past, for once, but my personal past.  For more than 20 years, I’ve been writing romances as Jessica Hart, and I’ve just self-published [...]

Parsley

A friend gave me a huge bag of curly-leafed parsley the other day. I love how green and vibrant it is, and I’d forgotten that it has much more flavour than the flat-leafed variety that [...]

A History of York in 100 Pictures 11: Walmgate Bar

Walmgate Bar is one of the four great gateways into York and the only one that still retains its barbican.  Although Walmgate is a very ancient street, this part of the city was not enclosed [...]

Time’s Echo shortlisted for a RITA®!

I’m thrilled to announce that Time’s Echo is a finalist in the prestigious RITA® contest run by Romance Writers of America®.  The RITAs are the romance writing world’s equivalent to the Oscars (or so I’ve [...]