When I enjoyed a day out at the Monmouth Medieval Festival a few weeks ago, I was surprised to come across the murder weapon used in my new cosy mystery novel, Death at the Village Garden Party: a crossbow. (Pictured with my husband, above.)
Fortunately, in this case, the crossbow was not in the hands not of a killer, but of a very pleasant fellow sharing his expert knowledge of medieval weaponry.
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As regular readers of my blog will know, I end each month in conversation with an author friend whose work and writing life I think will interest my readers too – even though they may be writing in a completely different genre to my cosy mysteries and other ficiton. To round off November, I’m delighted to welcome my friend and former student Rory Marsden, who writes as R Marsden, and shares news of his books and his writing life at his website www.talesofcastlerory.co.uk.
I first met Rory through the Simply Self Publish course that I teach online for Jericho Writers. A condition for enrollment on the course is that students have at least one publish-ready novel to which they can apply what they learn on my course. Rory immediately impressed me by having not only several novels ready to go, but also a masterplan for a series of 36!
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