Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Many people have unfulfilled dreams. I am very fortunate. After many false starts, Books We Love accepted my novels for publication. For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed writing stories and reading historical fiction and non-fiction. I think it was inevitable that I should combine these interests and write romantic historical fiction in which I recreate times past and keep the hero and heroine’s bedroom door shut. My novels are set in the early 14th, 18th and 19th centuries. The first three chapters of my eleven published novels are on my website, where you can learn more about me.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Saturday’s Child will be published in July, 2020. It is the last of my series of stand alone novels, Heroines Born on Different Days of the Week. When I wrote the first one, Sunday’s Child, I did not plan the series, but I liked the idea of using the nursery rhyme to create characters and their circumstances. Annie, Saturday’s Child, ‘who works hard for a living’. Her story is inspired by the desperate financial situation of soldiers not eligible for a pension for war wounds, when they became unemployed after the Battle of Waterloo.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
If I don’t stick to a routine I find it very difficult to motivate myself to continue my work in progress.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Oh, I have read so many books that this is almost impossible to answer. The famous Indian classics, The Bhagavadgita As It Is by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Mahabharata and The Ramayana have given me food for thought. I enjoy contemporary authors Bernard Cornwall, Elizabeth Chadwick and Barbara Erskine’s novels. I also enjoy the works of Elizabeth Goudge, Georgette Heyer and Mary Stuart. I also read Historical non-fiction.
What are you working on now?
I am researching and writing character profiles for Grace, Damsel of Cassio, the sequel to Yvonne, Lady of Cassio, set in the early years of Edward III’s reign, which I hope will be published in 2021.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I upload posts on facebook, my facebook page and facebook groups to publicise myself as an author and my novels. I also depend on reviews to help potential readers decide whether they would like to read my books.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
If your goal is to find a publisher, persevere. No matter how interesting your plot and theme are write to the best of your ability. A writer’s group and an online critique group which offer constructive comments helps and so do books on how to write.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t say you could write a book. Write it.
What are you reading now?
Edward III by Ian Mortimer and Lancelot by Giles Christian
What’s next for you as a writer?
At the moment, I have more ideas for novels than I have time to write, but I would like hope give a twist in the tale in a novel about Vikings.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Bhagavad Gita, The single volume of The Srimad Bhagavatam, and, maybe, Gone With The Wind and The Far Pavilions.
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