Ned Hayes's Blog, page 114
March 20, 2014
"I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character."
- Alfred Hitchcock (via rabbitinthemoon)
“I can see her now. On the day we take the forest path to the...
“I can see her now. On the day we take the forest path to the deep stream beside the alder copse. There a plover calls in the deep woodsy stillness, and then a pair of martins dart across the over-grown path. Through the trees can be seen the thick and fast-moving line of flowing water, a steep bank beneath our feet and flowering at the edge of the water, the purple loosestrife and meadowsweet of spring.”
March 19, 2014
"Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it."
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via thatwetshirt)
"The sound of a distant ocean covers me with surf, that tide...
"The sound of a distant ocean covers me with surf, that tide that bears me back eternally into the past, back to the place where I was born. My mother took me out in our little fishing boat, out on the open water of the sea. The thrum and hiss of surf upon the shore behind us, the breaking rhythm never ceasing. My mother waited until we were out of sight of land."
— Sinful Folk, by Ned Hayes, and New York Times bestseller Nikki McClure
March 18, 2014
Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane will be hosting an author...
Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane will be hosting an author event for author Ned Hayes’s new historical novel, Sinful Folk.
A reading, Q&A and book signing will begin @ 7:00 p.m.
7 pm — March 20 — Author Reading, Signing and Q&A — Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane
Also check out the Northwest Writer’s Panel discussion the previous night (3/19) with local Pacific Northwest authors.
Come one, come all !
Fantastic medieval manuscripts — like the ones I read when...
Fantastic medieval manuscripts — like the ones I read when I was writing the medieval historical novel SINFUL FOLK
PHOTOS VIA:
uispeccoll: By request for pesquetet who wanted images of medieval animals (particularly ones that do not reflect reality).
Our medieval manuscripts do not have as many figures so I am going to present you with our giant, wonderful, and odd manuscript Antiphonal from 1720 which is our best source of strange and wonderful creatures not reflecting reality. And sometimes smoking pipes.
Antiphonarium. Vel. (1720), 55 ff. (63 x 46 cm.). Written for a Spanish convent. Modern vellum binding (De Ricci 10)
March 17, 2014
"The road is a river of ice, slick and unforgiving. A harsh...
"The road is a river of ice, slick and unforgiving. A harsh sweep of white iron, smooth as glass and cold enough to freeze any uncovered inch of flesh to the surface. Hillocks and haystacks rise up, isles in a smoking brume. Here and there snow has blown aside, revealing the line of the great white stone road that slices through the hills."
"A bird calls, distant and wounded. The woods are still as...
"A bird calls, distant and wounded. The woods are still as death. Quick steam huffs in and out of Geoff’s open mouth. And with that, the dangerous moment seems past. We gather wood and help Tom build his fire. As I pick up spare twigs and dried bracken, I wonder how far our sounds penetrate into the black forest, and how far our shouts echo along the White Road. Anyone approaching along the road could find us here."
March 16, 2014
"Behind me a round window: a circle of light that stabs through...
"Behind me a round window: a circle of light that stabs through into the gloom of candles and dusty scrolls. Dust motes float in the beam of light and land upon the leg-irons and my blood-flecked tunic. The light from that window seems like a ghostly shape to me, an angel that hangs over all of us, silently judging every truth, every lie."
PHOTO: uncoverinq: (by Aleksandra Tymoszenko)
