Over the past few years, I’ve begun writing novellas. It started when a friend asked me to write one for a Regency romance anthology. It was so much fun that I ended up starting a new pen name (Elizabeth Leydin) and just kept writing them. (I was going to give
Here is the opening of my new 1920s novella, Song and Dance. It’s the story of Jane and Jonesy, whom you might remember from The War Bride. I’ll be sending the full story out to my newsletter subscribers very soon, so sign up here if you haven’t already. The full novella will be provided
I don’t have a cover to show you yet, but I’m delighted to say that The Charleston Scandal will be available on 24th November in Australia (and worldwide as an ebook)! So it will be in your local or online bookstore in time for Christmas! London, 1923 Kit Linton, a privileged young
If you need some music to calm you down, try this:
The other day, I babysat my niece’s twin five-year-old girls for the day. Part of the time was spent watching a Barbie movie: a remake of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Or, should I say a reimagining of A Christmas Carol, with Barbie telling the story to her younger sister –
‘What’s in a name?’ Juliet asks Romeo. ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ Hmmm. If you knew the flower we call a rose was called a ‘skunk blossom’, would you really perceive its scent as piercingly sweet, as redolent and seductive, as achingly nostalgic? Frankly, I
Although most of the action in A Letter from Italy is set in Brindisi in 1917, the last section is set in Venice. All cities changes over time, even historical centres like Venice, and I wanted to be very sure of my descriptions. Fortunately, I stumbled over (well, all right,
My publishers have made me this happy message:
E.C. Ambrose has a new book out today, and has kindly agreed to tell us about the research she did for it – into being a medieval surgeon! Elaine says: While I’d be the first person to tell you that most people in my period of interest, the later Middle
One of my favourite writers is Wendy Orr who, like me, writes for both adults and children. Her latest book, Dragonfly Song, is likely to appeal to both, being set in Minoan Crete. The main character is a bull-dancer… That’s so far away from the era of my own books
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