Please welcome friend and author, Marla Skidmore… …to the blog this week. Hi Marla, thanks for being here and please tell me all about your interest in history and how it inspires your writing… Since I was old enough to
My passion is to write about events that happen in life and change everything for those involved as well as those caught up in the maelstrom. I want my characters to sit at your side, steal your attention and sweep
For our summer vacation this year, my husband and I decided to explore the British Isles – to visit some of our favourite places – Dublin being one of them – we spent a very happy week there some years ago
I had a fantastic two hours signing books at the Ripon Bookshop on Saturday morning – and I have to give a huge thank you to Simon and Jill for hosting the event for me. Almost from the beginning I
An interesting article found in the Guardian in February 2019. The medieval monarch and his queen, Margaret of Anjou, were not alone at night, historian Lauren Johnson reveals Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou as depicted in the Talbot Shrewsbury
A fellow Ricardian shared an interesting article recently, about what Richard III would recognise in today’s England. The writer of the article maintained that there were few vestiges of our landscape that he would recognise – and even rarer would
This is the Marmion Tower in West Tanfield – a village close to where I live. I have known about it most of my life and driven past countless times – never knowing its significance – its link to the
Whilst I was doing the research for my novel on Richard III – ‘Renaissance – The Fall and Rise of a King’ I of course read up on the battles that took place during the Wars of the Roses. The
