“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.”
Since when did Killarney become a National Park? I’ve read the Annals of Innisfallen. Brian Boru and his grandson Muirchertach Ua Briain must be turning in their graves. Muirchertach Ua Briain had a bit of a tiff with Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway about the title of High King of Ireland. Enter the Ravens of […]
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I was looking for a “business” partner to share a new venture with and have received – out of the blue – an offer from a fellow historian who has followed my work for a long time. Way back since my Weave a Garland days in the early 2000’s. Woohoo. Time for a partner-in-historical-crime, methinks […]
Read MoreBarlings is just down the road from me. En route to Lincoln. The year after something happened in NY one September, I went to Lincoln to meet, in real life, a friend that I’d “met” online. She was a fellow writer and also (with her husband) the new owner of a publishing company in the […]
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Thanks to an amazing friend, I learned quite a bit about Alasdair and the Lord of the Isles. She is much more Scandinavian than me. “They” say that Mac Colla was 6ft 7inches…though slightly shorter when “they” beheaded (?) him in Ireland. Mac Colla’s father Coll Ciotach, who was again taken prisoner at Dunyvaig, was […]
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I’ve been in such a quandary for the past two years but have found MY solution now. Ravens of Dinefwr was conceived, planned, outlined with a male protagonist/main character and a strict historical storyline. I’ve finally worked out how to reverse this. All the females connected to the males are NOW the focus of the […]
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Or Foundling. They are one and the same. A child with no parents. HEATHCLIFFE And yes. He was a figment of Emily’s mind but writers write about what they know. Heathcliffe is the Byron of fiction. Mad. Bad. Dangerous to know. THE ANTI-HERO. BTW. May I humbly suggest that you read the book rather than […]
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The Mabinogion has played such a HUGE part in my past decade and a bit more of research for Ravens of Dinefwr. It helped me (along with N.C.) to weld the MSM History of Wales/Ireland/Scotland/The Normans/The Crusades with a new chronology and story. I’ve watched Cerys a few times – she’s my go-to-source for pronunciation […]
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I write Historical Fiction. Something that I love and I’m going back to. The Hidden History Project has ceased to exist. I am No Longer a #Truther #AltHistorian #FeedingStation I WILL write History. MY WAY. My History is Full of Real People with Real Emotions and Real Experiences :o) Done with the Faketoobers. Done with […]
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O Giddy Aunt. This is my favourite love to hate story. If you read the original by Dumas or the multiple “mystery solved” books or even watch the film below ….. ….No. I retract watch the film below. Apart from watching the brilliant comedies of Irons, Malkovich, Depardieu, Byrne and Hugh Laurie, this film is […]
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Writing to Reach You? How Very Dare You steal MY words? F’kin Glaswegians!!!!!! Peasants. The lot of us ! Hurrummmph :o(
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My Song. My Favourite Oasis Song. Again written by Noel. Who was the Soul Poet of the family. Today is gonna be the dayThat they’re gonna throw it back to youBy now you should’ve somehowRealized what you gotta doI don’t believe that anybodyFeels the way I do about you now P.S. I had a feeling […]
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I came across the book featured in the image above several years ago and Immediately fell in love with it. Why? Because it put into words something that I had known all my life. I was fortunate enough to live in a place and a time when knitting was taught in school. To both the […]
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Hidden History Research 