How I Plan my Books …
One thing I have always done is profusely take notes. I come from a background of academic research; a skill I now take into my fiction writing
Month: January 2020
Why I write under a pseudonym
Well, like many other authors, there are various reasons why I decided to use a pen name, or, as the French say, a nom de plume. In doing so, I’m in good company. George Eliot was really called Mary Anne Evans, Mark Twain, Samuel Longhorn Clemens and the three Brontës sisters called themselves Action Bell, … Read more
Signing the Devil’s Book
During the English Civil War of the 1640s, a man named Matthew Hopkins proclaimed himself the ‘Witchfinder General’, although that title was never bestowed upon him officially by Parliament. His witch-hunting activities mainly took place in the eastern counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk and occasionally in the more central counties of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire … Read more