My new novel, Love’s Knife, a medieval murder mystery, was published last month. I started writing it 10 years ago during a month-long writing residency in the Pyrenees. It’s been a long time brewing. I just came across a series of blogposts from those weeks of having the initial idea for the novel and am…
Time-Sensitive Historical Fiction
Today is the last day that you can buy my new novel, Love’s Knife, as an ebook on amazon.co.uk for a mere £0.99. The price goes back to its normal £4.99 in 17 hours or so. It’s also available as a paperback. Love’s Knife is a medieval murder mystery set in Toulouse at the turn…
On a Viking trouser-snake
I’ve a crick in my neck, And tend to fall on my head, My trouser-snake is soft, And my hearing’s gone away. The extract above is from Judith Jesch’s translation of a lament on old age by the 10th century Viking skald (or poet) Egil Skallagrimsson. The image is a 19th century French painting by…
Parisot Literary Festival 2024
When I moved to a village in southwest France some sixteen years ago, I thought I would find myself in splendid isolation, with no distractions from writing, but I quickly acquired a writers’ group, then a reading group, and discovered that I was living in proximity to a big literary festival in a small French…
October Newsletter
My quarterly newsletter, Just Meandering, is out now on https://justmeandering.substack.com It has articles on my new novel, on recent author events, on starting on a new writing project and on a free book offer. Sign up for free to read it. My latest novel, Love’s Knife is available as an ebook for a mere £0.99…
Rock, Paper, Swords! interview
I’m still emerging from the mammoth and thrilling task of organising the HNS UK 2024 conference. It could take a while! Matthew Harffy and Steven A. McKay interviewed me for their roving podcast from the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh2b63b-efM Check out their podcast for interviews with the conference speakers including Bernard Cornwell, Diana Gabaldon, Kate Quinn +…
Medieval vielle
I have just emerged from organising the Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference at Dartington Hall in Devon. The conference had 250 delegates onsite and another 150 online. Speakers included Bernard Cornwell, Diana Gabaldon, Ian Mortimer, S.G. MacLean, Elizabeth Chadwick and Kate Quinn. The chairman of the society, Richard Lee, presented me with this replica…
A busy week: New book, historical fiction conference
Rebekah Simmers interviewed me about organising the HNS UK 2024 conference, which is taking place this weekend in Devon, UK (online tickets are available) and about the publication (yesterday) of my latest medieval novel – my sixth. http://hns2024.com/2024/09/02/conference-interview-tracey-warr/ What next? After the conference, I’m looking forward to a short period of being a slacker! Doing…
Book Launch Interview with the HNS
The cover image shows salt mounds at Aigues-Mortes. The medieval salt trade features in the novel.
Publication Day! – Love’s Knife
It is publication day for my new novel, Love’s Knife, a medieval murder mystery set in Toulouse at the turn of the 12th century. Tony Riches has a guest post from me on his blog on writing the novel: https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-launch-guest-post-by-tracey-warr.html The book is available now as an ebook and paperback. Love’s Knife is on Kindle…
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