First interview of 2016 goes to Dr Jo Stanley, FRHistS, for her fascinating blog Gender, sex, race, class – and the sea. “Using a cultural studies approach, this blog explores the impact of women, LGBT people, working-class people and people from a range of ethnic backgrounds, on the sea and shipping. And it questions the…
A giveaway and two posts in one week. Where will it end? The Novel Approach were kind enough to interview me about The Reluctant Berserker, so I am over here today explaining why Viking helmets did not have horns and why I like the Saxons so much – hint, it involves elves 🙂 If you…
LOL! It looks like we planned this as a swap, but actually it just turned out this way. Charlie’s one of the first people I ever got to know in this genre, and still one of the nicest. It was a great experience, coming in as a new author to have a posse of people…
So, my dry spell continues, as you can tell from the state of the blog. But I can at least manage to rouse myself and say “Look! I’ve been interviewed by Charlie Cochrane, the star and inventor of sweet m/m, the author of the well beloved Cambridge Fellows series.” Charlie always thinks of really good…
Well, her blog title is “Alex Beecroft put to the question,” so I thought I’d follow the theme 😉 I’m guesting today on Elin Gregory’s blog, where she asks me all kinds of fascinating things such as “what makes a hero?” and “is everything better with elves?” and “your characters – which would you snog,…
Charlie Cochrane, as well as being an amazingly prolific and talented author is also a whiz at thinking up ideas for places to promote. Recently she suggested that as we were both members of the RNA (the Romantic Novelists’ Association – the UK equivalent of the RWA) we should write a piece about gay historical…
Treat yourself and help Japan First of all, I was going to post about the wonderful birthday present I got from Mirien, which I absolutely love. I’ve put it on a black thong to wear it because that seems to go better with the feeling of wearing something out of antiquity. I tried to take…