Fellow novelist, Helena Schrader, asked me to send a guest blogpost on writing fiction about real historical people. My post is published today: http://schradershistoricalfiction.blogspot.com/2025/02/historical-figures-in-historical_01619643537.html The cover image shows Henry I, king of England, who appears in my trilogy of novels focused on Nest ferch Rhys: Daughter of the Last King (pictured below), The Drowned Court…

Today is Holy Saturday or Black Saturday. I’ve set a scene in my new medieval novel during the Black Saturday night vigil in Toulouse’s Saint Etienne Cathedral. As an atheist myself, trying to imagine my way into the religious beliefs of my medieval characters is a major challenge. I asked my Catholic friend, Anne, to…