I am currently working on my character dossiers for Hell has its Demons. These documents are really everything I need to know as a writer about the major character of my novel. I use a template from Nancy Kress‘s Creating Dynamic Characters, and find it very useful for considering all angles of my most important [...]

I have been working through some ideas of how to portray hell in my novel Hell has its Demons. If you read the synopsis of the story you’ll have noticed that it ends with a journey by some of the main characters into hell itself. As the story is set in the middle ages there is [...]

Wow, what you can say about this news of a find of gold coins and artifacts that apparently is over three times the size of that found at Sutton Hoo. Whoever left these behind, and presumably it’s the hoard or grave-site of an important warrior/noble of Mercia, must have been one well wealthy so and [...]

I have added a new section to the Hell has its Demons pages called England in 1376. In this section of the site I’ll be  adding information about the social and political situation in England in 1376, the year in which the novel takes place. First up is some information about who the most important [...]

I have added a new character profile for Hell has its Demons for Isabel Haukwake.

I have updated the pages I have on Magic in the Middle Ages. Some of these have been re-ordered, but I have also added new content, including excerpts from some primary sources. In particular I would recommend checking out the Peter Lombard page, he had quite a bit to say about the nature of angels [...]

The new WordPress version of my site allows me to create menus and pages that are separate from the blog – so I have created a menu header for My Current Projects and I’m putting some information about Hell has its Demons in that place. So far there is a synopsis and a character history [...]

I worked on the life story of one of my major characters from Hell has its Demons yesterday. The following paragraphs tell the story of Jake before the events of the novel take place: Jake’s family moved to St Brett’s when he was 11, a year after the Plague first struck in 1348. His young [...]

My medieval fantasy mystery now has a new title and one that I am really quite happy with. From now on I will use this new title to label all posts which provide updates on it’s progress. The new title is: Hell has its Demons A Sotil and Savage Adventure Here’s the draft synopsis, (any [...]