Renaissance Physician – Guillaume de Baillou

Renaissance Physician – Guillaume de Baillou

I posted recently about Jean-Baptiste Morin as an astrologer who makes an appearance in my work in progress The Favourite Murder, which will be the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. He was also a physician. So let us continue with another Renaissance...
Renaissance Composer – Palestrina

Renaissance Composer – Palestrina

I’m beginning to lose inspiration for blogs derived from today’s historical events. I think it’s just that I’ve already done most of them that interest me, or that relate to Sir Anthony Standen in some way. However I’ve done a few on Renaissance scientists, artists,...
Jean-Baptiste Morin and Astrology

Jean-Baptiste Morin and Astrology

I posted recently about using AI to generate horoscopes for use in my fifth novel of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, The Favourite Murder. I have been writing a scene today where Anthony is meeting with Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583-1656) to have is horoscope done....
The Pencil

The Pencil

I write the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures on my computer and sometimes my tablet. I make notes in my notebook or on scraps of paper with whatever is at hand, pen or pencil. In The Suggested Assassin Sir Anthony yearns for a kind of magic quill which could be used to...
AI and Writing

AI and Writing

I have written about AI before. I have occasionally used it to create an illustration for my blog, often with hilarious results. But I have now found a use for AI in writing. In my work in progress, The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen...