by David West | Dec 9, 2022 | News
Claire and I both try to get our brains working, over the first coffee of the day, with puzzles. Wordle precedes Quordle, before I move on to Sudoku. As a result, sometimes I feel guilty, it seems like procrastination. That’s because I should be researching my next...
by David West | Dec 7, 2022 | News
I’ll get to Christmas writing, but first I finished reading the biography of Louis XIII today. It didn’t disappoint. If the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures return to Paris in the next book, I have a much better understanding of the teenage king. I’m writing this post...
by David West | Dec 6, 2022 | News
I like the poetry in some rap lyrics, but I’m not really interested in rap music, or rappers. My latest book, Called to Account, has the theme of anti-Semitism. Therefore I was interested in a news article on the BBC about Kanye West, or Ye as he now identifies. He’s...
by David West | Dec 4, 2022 | News
On Saturday I had my first book signing event. I took a small table at my village’s Christmas Fayre. It was really busy and I sold 32 of the 40 books that I took along. It certainly exceeded my expectations. The practice in talking to people: explaining what the books...
by David West | Dec 2, 2022 | News
When I wrote my post on renaissance writers, I failed to mention Sir Thomas North. I realised my error when I read, or heard, some quotations of Plutarch. In 1557 Sir Thomas North wrote the first translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives in English. Shakespeare based...
by David West | Dec 1, 2022 | News
I know, bear with me. Yesterday I posted about the words circled, and margin notes in Louis XIII: The Making of a King. The critical reader has underlined the phrase “To further placate the prince”, and put an exclamation mark in the margin. Clearly he or she is not a...
