Recently, I was asked about me. Not about my books, or my heroes and heroines, their lives and loves, the stories I tell of them, or the...

Did you know that Jane Austen had a brother who was disabled? Modern scholars believe George Austen suffered from epilepsy, cerebral...

I plot my stories in great detail before I sit down to write them. For me, this makes the actual writing much easier and reduces the...

My son has Prader Willi Syndrome. It's a condition caused by a chromosomal anomaly, similar to Down’s Syndrome. Like Down’s, PW is...

There are, they say, only seven plots under the sun. There are also hundreds of thousands of stories out there. These stories are all...

When Little Lady said she had to be an Ancient Greek for school, I came back with a variation on that old joke from “1066 and all that.”...

On Monday evening, (20th May 2024) the Leonardo Royal London City Hotel will ring with the joyous voices of Romantic novelists, their...

Primogeniture is the right of the first born legitimate child to inherit their parent’s entire or main estate. In practise, this right...

In “The Earl Pretender,” Robert Carrow discovers he is not the oldest son and heir of an earl, as he has always believed. He has an older...

In the UK this week, there have been local elections, mayoral elections and a by-election. By January 2025 at the latest, there will also...

In “The Smuggler's Daughter,” Catherine Ashton's father is a wealthy cit, (a derogatory term for a member of the merchant class,...

Smugglers, when they were about their nefarious business, preferred not to be seen or disturbed. Witnesses could be compelled to testify,...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, smuggling was big business along Britain’s southern coast. Years of war with France made certain items...

In my book, "The Smuggler's Daughter", Adam Mason is sent to Sussex to discover a ruthless gang of smugglers. The job is dangerous....

Yesterday, Sunday March 10th 2024, was Mothering Sunday in the UK. In modern times of course, this has come to be known as Mother's Day,...

Today, the Oklahoma romance writers Guild (OKRWG) opened it's 2024 “So this is love” Virtual Book Fair. What better day to do that than...

In “The Smuggler’s Daughter,” Adam and Catherine set out to find the gang of treasonous smugglers who are helping Napoleon raise a new...

Nobody lives in a bubble, untouched by the rest of the world. Things happening around us affect us, colour our judgements and inform the...

It's been a funny old week. There have been good things happening, and not so good things, especially when it comes to my writing life....

This is the second in the Very Village Scandal stories by Virginia Heath. Set in Whittleston on the Water, it tells the tale of Ned and...