by David West | Oct 3, 2022 | News
I’ve had a good Kirkus review for Called to Account (the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures) and decided to use that for the paperback back blurb. I’ve emailed it over to my cover designer Jacqueline, so I’ll soon be able to complete the preparation for...
by David West | Oct 1, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
I find my old skills of project management and project sponsorship come in handy occasionally. I don’t have much call on them during the actual writing stage. Find it helpful to have a daily word count target, but that’s all. It’s the period between completion of the...
by David West | Sep 28, 2022 | News
You can’t check too much. I received the editorial review from Love Reading of Called to Account the day before last. Called to Account is the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, due for publication on 8th November. They had some good things to say:...
by David West | Sep 27, 2022 | News
Life in Tudor times was packed with uncertainty. Martin Luther’s Protestant philosophy had been debated in England during Henry VIII’s reign, but Henry had written a book defending the Catholic Church and Pope Leo X had named him “Defender of the Faith”. When Pope...
by David West | Sep 26, 2022 | News
In my recent post CONNECTIONS, I was amazed that whilst reading a book on Freemasonry I came across a link to Giordano Bruno who is a key character in my book, Fire and Earth. Giordano Bruno was known as the memory man, able to perform unbelievable feats of memory....
by David West | Sep 25, 2022 | News
When I discovered that Sir Anthony Standen had been a spy delivering detailed intelligence to Walsingham, on the preparation of the Spanish Armada, I wanted to find out if he was an ancestor, because my mother’s maiden name was Standen. I was already using Ancestry,...
