“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Can be tracked. I’ve done it many times for the A COUNT Ants! It comes to less than £50. WHY? I’ve had ONE beautiful and much appreciated review on that site in the past 6 years………because I am not a SellMYSoulToTheDevil kinda person. I earned £20 via Patreon. Before it was hacked and destroyed. WHY? […]
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Almost 2 years now. I’ve given every ounce of help that I can to certain people and NOT ONE of them has even the most basic of Good Manners. Not that I gave anything solely with the Entitled Expectation of being given back to. I was just NOT EXPECTING this campaign of Unending HATRED and […]
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One of the Multitudinous Crazy Things that I researched for my novel was… Xenophon : On Horsemanship Why? Because I’d not been fortunate enough to grow up with horses and I needed to know a bit about them. Why? Because of… Antoine de Pluvinel Why? Because he was THE expert On Horsemanship in 17th century […]
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Yeh. Yeh. I hear y’all shouting…GB’s talking about Brave New World! WRONG. Only an Obsessive, Compulsive Researcher of HISTORY (esp. 17th C history) knows about THIS book by Aldous. Grey Eminence It informed a Massive part of Marie’s story. And gave me the nickname that l’éminence grise gave to Richelieu. And just how much power […]
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When you research an Historical Novel you have to go backwards first to the previous generation and then forward, to the next generation, before you can possibly begin to understand the generation about whom you are writing. Margot always fascinated me. Although she had no role in the book. Marguerite of Valois I even bought […]
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‘I think I am destined to be the object of the folly of madmen‘ – Marie de Rohan 1600-1679 This is my FAVE quote by Marie. It comes from a letter that she wrote to one of her friends – about Cardinal Richelieu, who had executed one of her closest friends, imprisoned several more, led […]
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There is something rotten in the History of Italy. I first came across the image above a veeeeery long time ago when researching my novel. It’s the coat of arms of Hercule de Rohan-Montbazon. Hercule was the father of Marie de Rohan, the MC of Weave a Garland of my Vows. Check out – The […]
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Laudanum Henriette Marie aka Henrietta Marie. Named after her father Henri IV and her mother Marie de Medici I slowly grew very fond of Henriette Marie as I researched and wrote about her. She is 13 years old when I first introduced her. A beautiful, young, innocent child. But she (mysteriously) died aged about 59 […]
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GB : Jan 2019 If I’d TRULY been a Wannabe, Rich and Famous and Respected and Adored and Loved and Recognised Somebody…I’d’ve outright lied to the TV company and denied MY All Rights Reserved Status. But I didn’t. And I lost. Nil Desperandum – Hope On the Horizon. I was gonna be a yt Rich […]
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January 2019 was looking soooo hopeful for me. My work had been featured on FEB and a TV company contacted me about making my novel into a TV series. Unfortunately (all around) the former now thinks I’m EVIL personified and the latter asked the “DREADED” question about the availability of the RIGHTS to my novel. […]
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Unless y’all are False,Fake,Foney or In a DEEP Psychic Vampire Sleepy Sleep …..y’all’ll’ve SEEN Tartaria LOUD AS/OBVIOUS AS/IN PLAIN SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!? FFS. WAKE UP and See the SYMBOLS PLANTED EVERYWHERE. Puhleeaassssse!
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Was a major character in my novel. I spent many years researching her. She was the second wife of Henri Quatre, mother of Louis XIII (husband of Anne of Austria), Gaston d’Orleans (husband of Marie de Montpensier), Elisabeth (wife of Felipe IV of Spain), Chrestienne (wife of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy) and Henriette […]
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Hidden History Research 