Stories drive the world.
Hello there! Did you ever stop to think about the history of stories? Before the printed word, all knowledge, news, and explanations for the unknown were conveyed by story. As an author, I also love to read. Be transported to worlds I haven’t yet explored, and taken on a journey into some place else. I hope that these short stories and snippets of information I post about here inspire you too. So, grab a cuppa and take 5 minutes to escape.
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“Repugnant to Nature”: Three Tudor Queens and their battle to remain in power
When I decided where to set Discovering Destiny, as with all the books in the Naturae Series, I wanted to place the story at a moment when European, and especially British, history was undergoing momentous change. The sixteenth century provides no shortage of dramatic possibilities: Tudor England; the Reformation and religious conflict; rival queens. Add…
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Scottish Gaelic Influence in Historical Fantasy – What is a Banrigh?
The Scottish Gaelic Origins Behind the Queen of the Witches “The only cure for Vinexplicity was the blood of a Banrigh—the Queen of the Witches.”- Discovering Destiny Fantasy readers often ask whether titles like Banrigh are simply invented because they sound magical. In the case of the Naturae Series, and specifically the latest release ‘Discovering…
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Discovering Destiny
Chapter 1 – Wings of Expectation 1567 June 12th, Summer Solstice, Island of Naturae Hope cut into the sky too fast. She knew it the moment she jumped – the updraft caught her wings awkwardly, lifting her higher than the formation allowed, scattering the careful symmetry of the soldier fae below her. Someone shouted. Someone…
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Welcome to Elizabethan Hardingstone – a small village in Northamptonshire, where magical mishaps and unlikely heroines are about to explode. Below is Chapter 1 of of my cosy historical fantasy, As Above, So Below, for you to enjoy. 30th July 1566 Though the linens should be white, the nightgown Becca swirled with her paddle had…
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