The Historical Novel Society liked “Hidden Conflict”

Well, it’s been an interesting couple of months in the Beecroft household, starting in April when my aged father decided he could not cope with living alone hundreds of miles away from the rest of the family any more. Since then it’s been a full soap-opera worth of just about every ridiculous plot thread you…

Ow, ow. What possessed me to think I could research 18th Century Romania and the Ottoman Empire at the same time? A hopeless naivety towards the available source material, I suspect. There’s too much on Istanbul and not enough on Bucharest, and I’m never going to get a handle on just enough of it to…

I just heard from Mark at Cheyenne Publishing that Hidden Conflict has gone to the printers.  This means that it should be available to buy at places like Amazon and the B&N website by the 1st of November.  The ‘official’ launch date is still 11/11/2009, but I’m looking forward to getting my own copy earlier…

I have discovered a forgotten birthday present from my parents-in-law, which is a voucher for downloads from Amazon.co.uk.  Hurray!  Also, I’m going off to an internet-free, bookshop-free long weekend spent in a field, and after driving to and from France last week I’ve read all the books on my ebook reader. These are two things…

Kicking off Talk like a Pirate Day by linking to the special pirate/age of sail post over at SPEAK ITS NAME http://speakitsname.com/2010/09/19/ahoy/ Once you catch an eyeball of that you’ll be right up for chatting on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SpeakItsName/, if only to purge the horror!

Sad news – please sign the petition if you can. Marriage equality has LOST in New York State. Sign the petition: “I’m outraged that marriage equality did not pass in New York, but I’m not going to stop fighting until marriage equality is the law of the land.” ~*~*~*~ Horrific news – I’m not sure…