World Book Day: How to Write One!
Don't do it, people, unless: a/ Someone has ALREADY given you at least a five figure sum b/ It will genuinely help save the world or c/...
Prototype
Dear Friends, Voila! The first public outing for the synopsis of The Dipping Pool . Nervous... 'The Dipping Pool is both prequel and...
St David's Day, Prejudice and Pride
Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus i bawb! ( Sorry, Dafydd - I know these aren't Welsh Mountains...) I wish us all plenty of cawl, leeks, daffs. harp...
Rabies in Wales
So, this is how the research process goes: Look up the London Foundling Hospital; come across Hogarth being himself 'lampooned' for his...
Is February the new March?
The second used to be my least favourite month – the fun and family of Christmas long gone; the new possibilities con of January well...
Y Ladi Wen
Sometimes 'co-incidence' is just too strange and spooky! Elizabeth Powell, born Elizabeth Owen, the main protagonist in The Shadow of...
Blaidd, Blaiddast,Blaiddiaid
Been reading about wolves in Wales - a tantalising report of a wild wolf in Wales as late as 1785 though it's highly likely they were...
Wolves in Ceredigion
Writing a passage on the Lloyd family of Mabws, near Llanrhystud who were close associates of the Powells of Nanteos. They were...
Twelfth Night: You've seen the play, now read the blog
Working on a fun scene today set on Twelfth Night which was important even in the Mid Eighteenth Century. Just like Shakespeare's play,...
Horror at Plas Nanteos
Fun day yesterday at the hotel which was looking beautiful as usual. I met the new manager and we got excited about the National...
