Author’s Blog

Thegns and Scribes

Elizabeth Donne Joins us today to talk about medieval thegns and scribes, and how they impacted her story The Legend Begins, Book One of Forevers in Fenwick. Although The Legend Begins is a Regency novella, the legend itself supposedly originated in 924AD with a scribe called Alwin. Medieval scribes are commonly imagined as monks, copying […]

Deadlines

Pushing forward day after day, as many words as you can eke out, is sometimes what it takes to get a story finished. It doesn’t always flow like water. Some of you know I’ve been struggling the past month. Step by step, pushing myself along, I finished a rough draft of “Not Again, Harry,” for […]

Downer

Ok, I’ll admit it. I no sooner sounded off about glorious May than I slid off into a swamp. I haven’t been able to move since. I’m forgetting things. There’ve been days I couldn’t get out of my chair. I went a couple of weeks without writing a word. I’m now late for everything, have […]

It’s May

Tra La, it’s May, the, er…blessed month of May. My world has been exploding with birds, blossoms, and butterflies. I decided I was at the point I had to either move to one of those independent retirement apartments or hire help with the yard. I hired help. Flowers have been planted, and the squirrels are […]

The Fate of a Lady’s Companion