Women of the Civil War - Now Available on Amazon!

Well, it's been a long old trek, but my Women of the English Civil War is now in paperback and available from Amazon in about three days time.

I have read and re-read the proof version and made corrections,my husband Andy had adjusted the photographs and the formatting, and it has finally been approved!
 
I orginally wanted the photos in colour and we are currently trying to find a way to do this without the book being too expensive.
 
The problem is that I wanted a portrait of the woman I was writing about (where one existed) at the start of her chapter so that you could see and identify with the person I was talking about.

Apparently this has never been done before - which puzzled me.

I have seen many recipe books with a full colour photo of the food on the same page, so that you can see what your recipe should look like. I thought that this idea could be transferred for use in my history book.   Apparently this is quite difficult - so we are still working on getting a colour version out.

Never a patient person, while waiting for the book to be published I wrote a Ghost Story for Halloween.  Another in the Hilary Long series and a couple of short stories for inclusion  in the Hilary Long Mysteries compilation.

There is never enough hours in the day.  It has taken five months to work out why I couldn't post a blog on blogger - now hopefully - that's sorted.  I can get on with blogging!

Christmas is on the horizon just 22 days to go - so much to do - so better get on!

Happy Christmas everybody!

Back again after 2 years!

Well, this is me, and my new book, in all my Sealed Knot glory. This is a quick update of what I've been doing.

 I have had a weird couple of years, last year I was ill for most of it, and despite having never been abroad was treated as if I had E.bola - that was scary. It took me months to recover just to become allergic to almost everything!

Despite that, this year we went and paid our respects to Richard III in Leicester, became Steam Punks held my darling husband's 50th in Hednas 1940s nightclub. Went to Tregenna Castle in St Ives in Cornwall, and Lyme Regis, Dorset, also Falmouth twice, and Dartmouth in Devon. I have researched my book, saw 17th century clothes at Claydon House, worked at Waddesdon Manor, have written four murder mysteries The Hilary Long Mysteries on Kindle. The latest is this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Man-Down-Overdown-Mystery-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B00VU2W758/ 

I'm going to bed now but it's nice to be back!  OK I am just promoting myself but what blogger isn't?
I guess that quite a few aren't.

I'll write about my latest project tomorrow,