I have a jackdaw mind. I fall in love with shiny facts, and I just have to keep them. And then I’m tempted to show them to everyone, as I did with the following deleted scene from my forthcoming novel, a small celebration of the counting rhyme used by generations of Cotswold’s shepherds. The scene introduces […]
Another Farewell to Kindness excerpt. Rede sees Anne for the first time: The service wound to its final blessing, and the congregation followed the Rector from the church as the bells pealed. He moved towards the door, through a rippling sea of bows, curtseys, touched foreheads, murmured ‘My Lord’s’. Out in the churchyard, the villagers […]
I’ve promised to send Farewell to Kindness to the proofreader by the end of next weekend. Still lots to do. Pressure. Pressure. Here’s another snippet to be going on with. My heroine has just talked my hero into donating prizes for the children’s races at the village fête. He would have liked to continue their private […]
The heroine is staying at the hero’s house. When she cannot sleep, she goes to check on the rest of her family, and meets him in the darkened hall. He invites her to sit with him in the old Minstrel’s Gallery. Rede set the tray down, and took the candleholder from her to light candles […]
I asked those beta-reading my novel to come back with feedback by the end of December, but I’m already beginning to get some responses. What amazing people those beta readers are. I’m getting lots of affirmation, but also some really useful advice. Thank you so much, you wonderful people. If I’m to have Farewell to […]
I’m dancing around the room going, Yay, and Woohoo. I’ve finally written myself to Rede’s and Anne’s happily ever after. Today is a holiday Monday in New Zealand. When I woke up and started to write, the good guys and the bad guys were all converging on the one spot. It took me 8,000 words […]
“And now… farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo Prologue London, 1801 George was drunk. But not nearly drunk enough. He still saw his young friend’s […]
He thought he had buried his heart with his children. He was wrong.
“And now… farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.” Alexander Dumas
Bedazzled Reading is the next spot on the Enchanted Book Tours blog tour, and they’ve posted my very first public review: Rede and Anne are two very different people but somehow they do match well together. Rede is on the hunt for the people who killed his family. Anne had to change her identity, and […]
Thank you to Under the Covers, next blog on the blog tour organised for me by Enchanted Book Tours.