‘Spinning the myth…’
Apparently Napoleon once said ‘history is a myth that men agree to believe.’
Apparently Napoleon once said ‘history is a myth that men agree to believe.’
I met Barbara Gaskell Denvil via Facebook. As one does. We’re both hist.fict writers and we actually live quite close to each other in the Australian way. She’s an hour’s flight and then an hour’s drive away from me, but that’s pretty close to being neighbours. Barbara’s a former mainstream writer who has chosen the independent route – like many others – and with her new book, Fair Weather, about to be released, I thought I should like to interview her…
Or more specifically, the rough road of research.
What an adventure my journey with Guillaume has been to this date!
Especially with the twelfth century history of Lyon, France…
It was alum of course.
If The Greek with the Wooden Leg hadn’t been so forthcoming and Claes hadn’t felt tantalised and the Charetty house hadn’t begun to trade in the highly valued commodity, then life would have been different…
Today I had the choice of attending a literary festival in the north of our island
or attending our annual district agricultural show in the south of the island…
Book Two of The Tritptych Chronicle is following a pathway.
I hadn’t intended for this to happen when I began Tobias’s story in Book One. But Book Two, Guillaume’s story, is treading that same route and has caused a re-think about just who might be the focus of Book Three…
A week-long Countdown Sale for Tobias…
starting at the miraculous price of 99 cents and rising daily to it’s current RRP.
Starting Tuesday 8th March.
Be in it!!!!
Simon, welcome back to the blog. It’s been a long time and many novels.
And never far from my favourite Tasmanian. A long time indeed, since we both started back on Youwriteon, before we’d ever dreamed of being here, eh?
So true. Although perhaps we ‘dreamed’ but never thought…
Fiona McIntosh is a prolific and extremely popular Australian author and also, I think, something of a superwoman.
Since 2001, she has released over thirty books covering a number of genres and which propelled her into something of a household name. She was born in England but calls the Clare Valley of South Australia her home. Bryce Courtenay recognised something in Fiona that subsequently took readers by storm. I wanted to find out what it was and so I’m pleased to welcome her to my blog today…