Love is worth the risk
Jude Knight joins us with facts about All Hallow’s Eve (which we now know as Halloween), and the influence it has on the new Bluestocking Belles collection, Moonlight Madness, a set of independent stories, all set around the end of October. Samhain, a Celtic festival whose name meant “The End of Summer” once fell on […]
Elizabeth Donne joins us this week with facts about Royal Navy Press Gangs and the part they play in her novella in Moonlight Madness. My novella, “Always with You,” appears in the Bluestocking Belles’ Halloween-themed anthology, Moonlight Madness, which is available for pre-order until its launch October 15. The price will revert to retail after […]
Monday dawns again to a bright sunny day and an aching shoulder. Again. I’ve been back to my physical therapy exercises and they help for a while. I had a few days when both shoulders, my elbows and my hands ached. I have no idea why, but such is life and it impacts writing. At […]
This week Rue Allyn joins us with some literary facts behind her fiction: why she named her female character after a male mongoose. According to Google’s AI, “Rikky is a feminine name that evolved as a diminutive or variant spelling of Ricki, which itself originated as a nickname for names like Erica, Richelle, or Patricia.” However, […]
And I see well. I just had a follow up appointment. Post cataract surgery, my vision is 20-20 without glasses. My goodness! And I see my yard full of flowers and flowering trees. (Oh joy!) and beds with encroaching weeds (rats). I see my old vegetable bed going to weed (and more rats). A light-bulb […]