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So, what’s better than 99%?

100% of course – though is anything ever 100%? Anyway, the first draft of ‘Just WHEATLEY?’ is finished. Am I pleased with it? Well, yes and no. I certainly know my characters better now, historically it feels right, and so far people who have read extracts haven’t guessed the murderer. But after the first draft the real work begins… so more will follow.

What did you do in the pandemic, Daddy?

What I didn’t do was update this website… or my Facebook author’s page… or…

But no worries. I’m back and the good news is that although it was difficult at first I have been writing and my Just Wheatley? novel is 99% complete and about to go out to publishers.

So Wheatley has negotiated his way through a murder or two, faced danger and the wrath of his superiors and found his beliefs challenged again and again.

Gwenhwyfar

I’ve been concentrating recently on a new Wheatley adventure (see ‘Just Wheatley?’) but Arthur’s Women is now entering it’s spookier part as Taliesin interrogates Gwynhwyfar’s ghost on Avalon, much to Nimue’s discomfort.

For a small taster, see the ‘Arthur’s Women’ section.

Poems 4u

I have been too quiet over the last couple of weeks. I seem to be getting nostalgic during the Covid-19 scenario (probably a good trait for an historical novelist) and have unearthed this poem called ‘Littlehampton…1964’, written when I was remembering being 16.

See ‘Poems4u page...

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