Articles from December 2009

Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy) Still enjoying this book! About 250 pages out of 800+ so far, and it’s still a good read. There’s something about his style that I can’t quite put my finger on that I really like. I think it’s because it’s not dumbed down at all. There’s quite a lot of [...]

This looks quite interesting, and the plot is definitely up my street: “14th century crusaders take a woman accused of witchcraft to an abbey where the monks will examine her and determine if her sorcery is the cause of the Black Plague which has decimated Europe.” Video Trailer for Season of the Witch And here: [...]

Lovely church scene and good selections of medieval art that give a feel of what Christmas may have been like in the Middle Ages. Have a great Christmas!

Quite, quite bizarre! Enjoy. Nice soundtrack too!

Managed to finish off the first draft of my current short story this morning! Wahey! Well pleased with this. Also changed the name a bit, after all not many people will know who my character Jake is just yet. So the working title is now “The Knight Who Wouldn’t Die”. I think that’s intriguing enough, [...]

Just one more scene to write I think – the climax of the story. I found that I haven’t included quite as much detail in the last bit, I just felt that I was getting into too much detail in some of the fight scenes and getting away from the real point of the story. [...]

Berkhamsted Castle was the main residence outside London of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince. The castle was part of the lands of the Earl of Cornwall. In it’s day it was an impressive fortification, with two moats and two walls, plus a motte and tower. Now unfortunately due to the 16th building craze most [...]

One of the hardest things in writing can just be getting started. Whether it’s starting a new piece of work or at the beginning of a writing session to get the first few words out. Another key factor sometimes is just to keep yourself going. I’ve got to a bit of a mid-narrative doldrums in [...]

Just started reading Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy) this morning. Parker is a new author to me, so I felt a little bit of trepidation when opening the book – you never know if you are going to be wasting your time or not. So far the book is well written and accessible. It appears [...]

The Bookseller released some statistics today on the top 100 selling authors in the UK market from 2000 to 2009. I have extracted the fantasy authors from their data to put together the following list: 1          Rowling, J K                    27,556,478 units, revenue of  £215,876,812.77 6          [...]