In case you missed these posts last year, I’m resharing. Each one has a Christmas scene from one of my novels and a medieval recipe. Happy Christmas! https://traceywarr.substack.com/p/medieval-christmas https://traceywarr.substack.com/p/medieval-christmas-2 https://traceywarr.substack.com/p/medieval-christmas-3
Tag: medieval fiction
Advent Calendar for History Fans
I am participating in an online Advent Calendar with daily entries throughout December by history and historical fiction writers, led by author Tony Riches. Watch out for my contribution on Christmas Bells later this month. Here are the first entries – what’s behind today’s door!: 1 December Tony Riches on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol…
New Novel
You can read the prologue to my new novel, Love’s Knife, as a free subscriber to my Substack. Starting this month, I will be posting a chapter a week for paying subscribers (who also receive their choice of a free paperback or ebook when it is completed). The novel is the first book in the Trobairitz Sleuth series….
Occitan Female Lord – publication day!
Today is the publication day for Almodis: The Peaceweaver, my novel based on Almodis de La Marche, the 11th century countess of Toulouse and Barcelona. Almodis was a scandal, excommunicated, and one of the most powerful of a number of female lords in southern France and Catalonia in the early Middle Ages. She and her…
Murder, lies and art
Currently researching for the medieval murder mystery I’m writing and discovering that the range of potential murderous motives at the end of the 11th century in the Toulouse/Pyrenees area are legion. The establishment of the lucrative pilgrim route to Compostela; the salt trade; papal policy over reform, reconquest in Spain and pressure on aristocratic consanguineous marriages,…
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