Red Hair and Pharaoh Ramses

Friday, 4 January 2019, 14:58.Reading time 1 minute.

I have a confession to make…. Red Hair Fascinates Me. I don’t know why. My own hair is very dark brown. I never wanted to be a blonde but I’ve always craved Red Hair. It’s sort of making sense now. I had a Scottish father and an English mother but my DNA test said […]

Recent Research

Wednesday, 26 December 2018, 15:48.Reading time 1 minute.

So…What have I been researching over this holiday time? Quite a bit actually. Time waits for no researcher. And BIZARRE as this looks, everything herein is connected. ONGOING RESEARCH Erzebet Bathory Mud Flood New Chronology Constantinople Cyrano de Bergerac Hemp Star of Bethlehem Grand Tartaria Shroud of Turin Carbon Dating Dendrochronology 11th Century 12th Century […]

Did Mary Sidney write Shakespeare’s Plays?

Friday, 19 October 2018, 14:42.Reading time 9 minutes.

Did Mary Sidney write Shakespeare’s Plays?
What a wonderfully loaded question, hey?
Another question – What on earth has this got to do with the 12th Century and The Ravens of Dinefwr?

Murier or Muriel

Monday, 27 August 2018, 15:51.Reading time 1 minute.

During my research this week I stumbled across an article written in 1933 called The First English Poetess. It was a strange piece, only 4 pages, and giving away very little. Apart from the fact that, in the late 11th and early 12th century, there lived a female poet of great renown. She was called […]

Historical Fiction: Research & Writing – Episode 2

Sunday, 5 August 2018, 15:10.Reading time 6 minutes.

Let’s start this episode with Writing.

The physical act of typing/writing words on the screen/page.

Why Ravens?

Sunday, 5 August 2018, 13:55.Reading time 4 minutes.

Why The RAVENS of Dinefwr?

Oh. I just knew that you’d ask that. And you just knew that I’d have an answer.

Historical Fiction: Research & Writing – Episode 1

Saturday, 4 August 2018, 7:48.Reading time 8 minutes.

My own personal views on the subject.

Researching and writing Historical Fiction, for me, is truly worthwhile and life-affirming.

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.