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Winter

Frankly, I’m sick to the gills with it. But it dos offer some spectacular images. Sadly I don’t have the photographic skills to make the most of them but here they are:

Icicles as long as my arm above the window in the south west tower

The view from my desk

The view from where the computer is.

The view from the other window over the town. There’s the faintest trace of last summer’s smiley face in the snow to the right of the clock tower’s green top.

Days and days of dull greyness. It’s at times li...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Melanie Tushmore

My guest in the Comfy Chair today is fellow Brit Melanie Tushmore, whose breezy British writing style is a real breath of fresh air. Her latest release – Crucifox #1: The Green-Eyed Monster, was released on March 1st and I can confirm that it’s terrific and a real hoot to boot.

Thanks Melanie for agreeing to be my guest and answer my questions.

Thank you, Elin!

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Elin: They say you should write what you know and I get the feeling from your work that you know your subject inside out. How much t...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Adam Fitzroy

My guest today is Adam Fitzroy, author of five non-erotic M/M romance titles available from Manifold Press. Romances set in the White House, on Flanders Fields and on the border of England and Wales, some contemporary, some historical and some BOTH, have met with critical acclaim. Thank you, Adam, for so kindly agreeing to answer my questions.

- Hi, Elin; it’s lovely to be invited, thank you!

Elin: You have written contemporary stories and historicals, which do you prefer? Do you find contempor...

A whole year!

Doesn’t time fly. It was a year ago yesterday that I started this wordpress blog. Since then I have shared a lot of my writing via Six Sunday and its successors and have met a lot of terrific people.

Thanks to everyone who has graced my blog with a comment. Thanks to those who have given me something to write about by tagging me in memes and ‘pass along’ awards. I’ve been blogging for a long time – ten years all but a week or two – and it’s not easy to think of new and fresh things to say. So...

Hump Day Hook #7

Happy Hump Day, hookers! Click on the link to get to the linky list of 30+ authors who are providing glimpses into their work.

Mine, as usual, comes from an affectionate pastiche of a Regency romance, which was the first thing I ever wrote using a word processing programme. Teensy keyboard on a Spectrum ZX and the memory had to be purged every 10 pages because the ‘hard drive’ was about 16Kb. And it was STILL a big improvement over writing by hand.

Anyhow – last week Agnes, the maid, muttered...

Weekend Writing Warriors #6

Yes, it’s another Sunday, time for another snippet. I think everyone who reads this will know the score – just click on the pic to get to the list.

I’m hoping to do a bit better this week for getting round the group. Sorry if I didn’t get to you last week.

Picking up again from last week where the argument between Kit and Wigram was broken up by O’Neill, who outranks them both.

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O’Neill looked them over with a knowing eye and jerked his thumb towards the quarterdeck. “You don’t need to convinc...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Dianne Hartsock

When I heard that my good friend Dianne Hartsock had written an historical romance I couldn’t wait to plonk her down in my chair again and ask her a few searching questions about her work.

Thank you, Dianne, for being here today to talk about your latest release, Wee Willie Winkie, and how you came to write it.

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Elin: Hello, Dianne

Dianne: Thank you so much, Elin, for having me back on your wonderful blog!

Elin:What was it about the nursery rhyme “Wee Willie Winkie” that sparked your interest?

D...

Hump Day Hook #6

It’s time for Hump Day Hook – a weekly event where authors share bits of their work.

My bit this week is from my old historical novel, untitled, that’s part Regency romance and part seeing how many cliches I can cram into it. Carrying on from last week with Lady Cicely, and the plot begins to thicken, if not clot, a bit.

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The morning room’s windows offered a fine view of the Park, but today Cicely had no eyes for the fashionable world walking, riding and driving below. Seated at her desk, her...

Weekend Writing Warriors #5

Here we go again, folks, with another bunch of sentences taken from a variety of authors, genres and works. Just click on the picture to get to the list of links.

My excerpt is from On A Lee Shore, again, and picks up directly from last week’s.

Denny, one of nature’s innocents, has been cozened by Bosun Wigram into giving Kit a bit of a surprise. Kit, woken from sleep, thumped Denny, realised what had happened and thumped Wigram, waking the entire watch in the process. It’s a short fight, Kit i...

A WTF moment

Towards the end of last month I decided to give myself a bit of a kick in the pants about continuing with A Fierce Reaping – I’ve left it so long for one reason and another that the voices in my head are sulking – and chose to do it by getting myself some inspirational works. With one exception they are one penny plus postage books from Amazon market place. Jarman’s translation of Y Gododdin [the OMG exception], books on the Dark Ages in the Uk and in Europe, both illustrated by the late grea...