First, I want to congratulate Alianore and Lady D on their new Edward II website! It looks great, and is chock-full of information. Stop on by and soak up the Edward II knowledge it contains. Second, I’ve put a couple of new letters in the In Their Own Words section of my own website, these …
I was checking my website statistics this morning, and on the page that lists links from which people reached my website, I found that no fewer than three people came from this site: http://wvjails.info/ Beats me, but if you’re on that site for a good reason (or, as seems more likely, for a bad reason) …
First, if you haven’t seen it already, do stop by Alianore’s blog for The Support Group for People Unfairly Maligned in Historical Fiction. It’s hilarious, and, alas, all too true! I was pleased to see that Margaret of Anjou (maligned as an adulteress), Katherine Woodville (maligned as a child molester of the young Harry Buckingham), …
I’m pleased to be offering a giveaway of an advance review copy of Brandy Purdy’s The Boleyn Wife, featuring Jane Boleyn, sister-in-law of Anne. The Boleyn Wife was originally self-published as Vengeance Is Mine. I never got to read it in its original version, because it was snapped up by Kensington very quickly, so I’m …
Last week was a pretty miserable one for me, between spending one night in the emergency room with a relative, having to replace the water heater for the second time in two years, and not having the fun of attending the Historical Novel Society conference, so I sorely needed some cheering up yesterday with a …
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As part of her blog tour to celebrate the paperback release of Mistress of the Sun, the story of Louise de la Vallière, I’d like to welcome Sandra Gulland to my corner of the blogsphere! I read Sandra’s Josephine Bonaparte trilogy when I was just beginning to write historical fiction. Not only did I learn …
While checking my Amazon ranking (it’s a compulsion, and will someday be duly recognized as such in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), I noticed that a merchant was attempting to sell the Lulu version of Hugh and Bess for a whopping $364. The name of the seller: cheapbargainbook. (Two other sellers are …
Being a little lazy tonight, instead of revising My Heart Split with Sorrow, I started poking around in the Library of Congress catalog for some familiar names. I liked this list of entries adjacent to Hugh le Despenser the younger: Despenser, Hugh le, the younger, d 1326.Despentes, Virginie, 1969- Desperado City Desperado (Motion picture) Desperadoes …
This is more of a “yes, I’m still out there” post than anything else, I’m afraid. I was pretty wiped out most of last week by some flu-like bug. That and the periodic appearance of winged termites in the house kept me quiet on the blog front. Last week, however, I did get the advance …