“A story has no beginning and no end, only points of entry.” Excerpt From The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón I just finished re-reading The
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October is unfortunately for a lot of people the beginning of cold season. Regardless of the fact that I know the air recirculation and filtering on British Airways
Last November, on a very dark night in North Norfolk when the ground fog drifted across the fields, I looked out across the Burn, across the pasture, and up the
Ship-type Stuff, or More Tedious Details… Here’s something I wish every historical fiction author knew: Gunpowder does not explode. Black powder (gunpowder) burns very hot
New Review The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody will be reviewed in Booklife, Publishers Weekly’s indy magazine, in the September 25 issue. I received an advance copy of
Humoral medical theory From the last centuries BCE until controlled empirical science took over in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, medical practice was based upon humoral theory. The principles
What are you reading? I recently discovered the delightful Greenwing & Dart series by Victoria Goddard. They are fantasy books set in an eighteenth-century-ish ‘alt-England’ sort of country where magic
Naval surgeon William Beatty’s medical chest at Royal Museums Greenwich Previously, I proposed to say a little about some eighteenth century medications (or ‘physic’) and what they were
Horatio Nelson’s Medicine Chest In The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody, Captain Nelson occasionally requests various things from his portable medicine box. At All Saints Church, in the
Special Discounted Price for Amazon Prime Day! If you haven’t read it yet, the Kindle ebook edition of The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody will be