Elizabeth Toner's Blog
February 27, 2013
A House Divided Progress Update
In the weeks since I last posted I’ve made some progress with the first draft of
A House Divided
. My original intention was to have 50,000 words completed by Christmas, NaNoWriMo style, but the eye incident detailed below intervened and I was held back. I’ve now (finally!) hit that word count and as I've written the ideas for this story have inevitably continued to evolve. A House Divided was always intended to be ‘alternative history’ (after all, the byline is ‘This is not the story you...
January 22, 2013
The best laid plans...
I started this blog with high hopes and good intentions in November, and spent most of that month collecting snippets and ideas for creating an info-rich blog. After all, that’s what it’s all about! But all these fine plans came to a crashing halt in early December.
One evening I was in one of my favourite coffee haunts, working on the second book of the Trastamara Chronicles, and I noticed something floating across the screen–or so I thought. I tried to brush it away, to no avail. I con...
One evening I was in one of my favourite coffee haunts, working on the second book of the Trastamara Chronicles, and I noticed something floating across the screen–or so I thought. I tried to brush it away, to no avail. I con...
November 10, 2012
October 30, 2012
Why Trastamara Chronicles?
Late fifteenth century Spain has a special place in my heart. When I was twelve, newly moved to Australia and desperately missing the familiar things of home, I discovered Jean Plaidy's historical novels. I started with The Young Elizabeth and enjoyed it, but the story that irrevocably hooked me, that drew me towards history in general and these characters in particular, was Daughters of Spain. I'm a geek. The family of Isabella and Ferdinand, notably Catherine of Aragon, became my first true...
