Called to Account – Progress Update
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...
Project Management of Writing
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...
Check, Check, and Check Again
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:...
Life in Tudor Times
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...
Memory Techniques
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....
Researching an Ancestor
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,...
Connections
I’ve just discovered some amazing connections to Sir Anthony Standen. I’m 39 pages into The Craft - How the Freemasons Made the Modern World, by John Dickie. It’s a fascinating book. I’ve just learnt that the father of freemasonry is William Schaw, who was made Master...
My Father, Vic Turner V.C. and Queen Elizabeth II
I went with my father when he visited the Rifle Brigade Museum in Winchester, when I was a boy. He was looking for a book, The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, but he didn’t know which edition. He knew that it had his name in it, and that it was in an article written by...
SUCCESSION
Since the abdication of Edward VIII we have enjoyed a clear line of succession. It hasn’t always been so. I recently reviewed Senlac in Readers Club, which covers the period around 1066. The death of Edward the Confessor presaged the Battle of Hastings and William,...
Called to Account – Progress Update
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...
Project Management of Writing
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...
Check, Check, and Check Again
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:...
Life in Tudor Times
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...
Memory Techniques
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....
Researching an Ancestor
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,...
Connections
I’ve just discovered some amazing connections to Sir Anthony Standen. I’m 39 pages into The Craft - How the Freemasons Made the Modern World, by John Dickie. It’s a fascinating book. I’ve just learnt that the father of freemasonry is William Schaw, who was made Master...
My Father, Vic Turner V.C. and Queen Elizabeth II
I went with my father when he visited the Rifle Brigade Museum in Winchester, when I was a boy. He was looking for a book, The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, but he didn’t know which edition. He knew that it had his name in it, and that it was in an article written by...
SUCCESSION
Since the abdication of Edward VIII we have enjoyed a clear line of succession. It hasn’t always been so. I recently reviewed Senlac in Readers Club, which covers the period around 1066. The death of Edward the Confessor presaged the Battle of Hastings and William,...