A distressingly ugly baby,but one can’t say so.Good manners. Kind heart. Pity.“She looks just like you.”

“The Price of Freedom” is a romance fantasy novella I’ve just this minute sent to Carina Press. So I’m having a little brag at how brave I am to submit it. Not that Angela James, the Editor there, is ever nasty. Still, it’s scary to have your words out there, risking rejection. And I have…

Beauty haunted me when I read it years ago. It remains a favourite retelling of an old fairytale. The following authors vary a bit in style, but they all write fantasy and, I think, what draws me to them is a kindness in their work. Patricia Wrede Elizabeth Scarborough Mercedes Lackey Tanya Huff Anne McCaffrey…

A mix of Golden Age and contemporary mystery writers in no particular order, except for Margery Allingham. She’s first because you have to read her. My introduction to her writing was Tiger in the Smoke. Margery Allingham Ngaio Marsh Dorothy Sayers Georgette Heyer Edmund Crispin Cyril Hare Gladys Mitchell Josephine Tey Marion Babson Carolyn Hart…

Remember the Millenium and the threat of Y2K crashing computers and the world? Seems a long time ago. At the time, Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger wrote a social history of England in the year 1000, the first Millenium. It is the world of the Anglo Saxons, with the book structured around the Julius Work…