Nicola here. There’s a meme going around on Facebook at the moment that is proving very popular. It asks: “You have been transported to the location in the last book you read. Where are you?” The answers flood in, from Scotland to the West Indies, from the New York of the future to London in 1515 and all times and places in between.
This meme set me thinking about world building, creating a setting that is real and vivid enough to make readers believe in it, literally to be transported there in their imaginations. Whether it is the fantasy world of a paranormal novel or the literally out-of-this world creation of science fiction, the writer faces the challenge of making it real for the reader. This happens in historical fiction as well, of course. We have a framework within which we set our 
stories; the era, the politics, the social history, fashions, etiquette etc and from within all that detail we craft a world that is compelling (I hope), a world which makes the reader feel that they are stepping back in time.
Until recently I had never really thought about the way in which writing a contemporary novel also 
requires world building. It wasn’t that I had assumed that because you were writing in the present that everything would already be “real.” Clearly it’s not as simple as that. A writer still needs to create a place that is vivid and enthralling. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why I love Mary Stewart’s novels. The way in which she evokes a place in just a few brief lines is wonderful:
“I met him in the street called Straight.
I had come out of the dark shop doorway, into the dazzle of the Damascus sun my arms full of silks.” Mary Stewart, The Gabriel Hounds.
And I’m already there. I can feel the heat of the sun, hear the sounds of the market and feel the brush of the silk against my arm. I’ve stepped into that world.
The book I’m writing at the moment, Winter’s Shadow, is the first time I’ve ever written anything with a contemporary thread to it. It’s set in three different time periods, the present, the early 19th century and the mid 17th century. Perhaps unsurprisingly it is the modern world I am having the most trouble creating since I’ve never tried doing this before. It’s a real challenge to conjure up characters who act and speak in a convincingly modern way and yet still fit into what is almost a fairytale fantasy world of time slip.
The time slip element itself is fun to write and here I think my mentor is Daphne Du Maurier, another author who creates the most magnificent worlds. Frenchman’s Creek is a historical novel and yet it starts in the present. The reader literally travels back in time, dropping in for a cup of tea in the farmhouse kitchen that was one part of the old manor house, travelling up the creek with a solitary yachtsman in his dingy.
“A forgotten century peers out of dust and cobwebs… All the whispers and echoes from the past that is gone teem into the sleeper’s brain and he is with them and part of them…” Daphne Du Maurier, Frenchman’s Creek.
By the time I have finished that first chapter I have travelled back in time three hundred and fifty years in my imagination and I am there in Cornwall on the banks of Frenchman’s Creek.
But it’s not just about the place. It’s about the people too. Frenchman’s Creek is made all the more 
romantic and mysterious by the fact that I’m there in company with a pirate. (Yes!) It's the characters who add so much to the world they inhabit. They are a hugely significant part of creating a vivid setting. Writing Winter’s Shadow I spend some of my day exploring the world of a hero who is “hard steel and rough edges, cloaked in Cavalier lace and velvet.” I'm in the 17th century with William Craven, Prince Rupert and Charles II, and I'm very happy to be there!
So back to the meme. You have been transported to the location in the last book you read or the one you are currently reading. Where are you, who are you with, and what is it like? I’m offering a copy of The Blanchland Secret, one of my early Regencies, to one commenter.
My last book was “Talk to Me Sweetly,” by Courtney Milan. She created a world in middle class, academic Greenwich, with a heroine of color and a “calculator” for a male astronomer. He mind captures the Irish, Catholic advice columnist. An image that linger are his finding a Catholic church’s steeple so that she can view the transit of Venus. He has a light touch, as exhibited by a page and a half of math puns, including a line about he won’t go into calculus puns because they would be derivative. I won’t go into the emotional sledge hammer that arises over the issue of race, but I can see the conversations and abandonment the leads to the hero getting it.
Loretta Chase’s Sandalwood Princess beginning is a months-long sea voyage from India to London where almost everyone is sick and miserable, yet the hero and heroine have midnight conversations, sometimes in moonlight and other times in starlight. Sometimes, he’s left keeping watch alone because she doesn’t come. I closed the book last night on a scene where her Indian champion picks and replacement cook the hero up by the scruff of his neck when the two incline towards each other in a kiss. Since they’re nearing the mouth of the Thames, I suppose the tenor while shift a lot.
My last book was “Talk to Me Sweetly,” by Courtney Milan. She created a world in middle class, academic Greenwich, with a heroine of color and a “calculator” for a male astronomer. He mind captures the Irish, Catholic advice columnist. An image that linger are his finding a Catholic church’s steeple so that she can view the transit of Venus. He has a light touch, as exhibited by a page and a half of math puns, including a line about he won’t go into calculus puns because they would be derivative. I won’t go into the emotional sledge hammer that arises over the issue of race, but I can see the conversations and abandonment the leads to the hero getting it.
Loretta Chase’s Sandalwood Princess beginning is a months-long sea voyage from India to London where almost everyone is sick and miserable, yet the hero and heroine have midnight conversations, sometimes in moonlight and other times in starlight. Sometimes, he’s left keeping watch alone because she doesn’t come. I closed the book last night on a scene where her Indian champion picks and replacement cook the hero up by the scruff of his neck when the two incline towards each other in a kiss. Since they’re nearing the mouth of the Thames, I suppose the tenor while shift a lot.
My last book was “Talk to Me Sweetly,” by Courtney Milan. She created a world in middle class, academic Greenwich, with a heroine of color and a “calculator” for a male astronomer. He mind captures the Irish, Catholic advice columnist. An image that linger are his finding a Catholic church’s steeple so that she can view the transit of Venus. He has a light touch, as exhibited by a page and a half of math puns, including a line about he won’t go into calculus puns because they would be derivative. I won’t go into the emotional sledge hammer that arises over the issue of race, but I can see the conversations and abandonment the leads to the hero getting it.
Loretta Chase’s Sandalwood Princess beginning is a months-long sea voyage from India to London where almost everyone is sick and miserable, yet the hero and heroine have midnight conversations, sometimes in moonlight and other times in starlight. Sometimes, he’s left keeping watch alone because she doesn’t come. I closed the book last night on a scene where her Indian champion picks and replacement cook the hero up by the scruff of his neck when the two incline towards each other in a kiss. Since they’re nearing the mouth of the Thames, I suppose the tenor while shift a lot.
My last book was “Talk to Me Sweetly,” by Courtney Milan. She created a world in middle class, academic Greenwich, with a heroine of color and a “calculator” for a male astronomer. He mind captures the Irish, Catholic advice columnist. An image that linger are his finding a Catholic church’s steeple so that she can view the transit of Venus. He has a light touch, as exhibited by a page and a half of math puns, including a line about he won’t go into calculus puns because they would be derivative. I won’t go into the emotional sledge hammer that arises over the issue of race, but I can see the conversations and abandonment the leads to the hero getting it.
Loretta Chase’s Sandalwood Princess beginning is a months-long sea voyage from India to London where almost everyone is sick and miserable, yet the hero and heroine have midnight conversations, sometimes in moonlight and other times in starlight. Sometimes, he’s left keeping watch alone because she doesn’t come. I closed the book last night on a scene where her Indian champion picks and replacement cook the hero up by the scruff of his neck when the two incline towards each other in a kiss. Since they’re nearing the mouth of the Thames, I suppose the tenor while shift a lot.
My last book was “Talk to Me Sweetly,” by Courtney Milan. She created a world in middle class, academic Greenwich, with a heroine of color and a “calculator” for a male astronomer. He mind captures the Irish, Catholic advice columnist. An image that linger are his finding a Catholic church’s steeple so that she can view the transit of Venus. He has a light touch, as exhibited by a page and a half of math puns, including a line about he won’t go into calculus puns because they would be derivative. I won’t go into the emotional sledge hammer that arises over the issue of race, but I can see the conversations and abandonment the leads to the hero getting it.
Loretta Chase’s Sandalwood Princess beginning is a months-long sea voyage from India to London where almost everyone is sick and miserable, yet the hero and heroine have midnight conversations, sometimes in moonlight and other times in starlight. Sometimes, he’s left keeping watch alone because she doesn’t come. I closed the book last night on a scene where her Indian champion picks and replacement cook the hero up by the scruff of his neck when the two incline towards each other in a kiss. Since they’re nearing the mouth of the Thames, I suppose the tenor while shift a lot.
I so agree with you about those opening lines of Mary Stewart’s. She could really transport you somewhere with a few words. Your post also reminded me of one of my favourite time travel books, Alison Uttley A Traveller in Time which I first read as a child but re-read often.
I’ve just been re-reading Georgette Heyer’s The Unknown Ajax, so I’m on the fringe of the Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, in 1817. It’s summer (which is good)! There are smugglers around, but hapless rather than fierce ones. I’m in the world of an aristocratic family, with a domineering grandfather and his relations who he bullies as much as he can. Lovely Hugo Darracott has been there a couple of weeks, and has taken the measure of everyone. He is having fun pretending to be more bucolic than he really is, while his kindness prevents him from being as nasty to everyone as they deserve. I’m falling for him just as much as Anthea is!
I so agree with you about those opening lines of Mary Stewart’s. She could really transport you somewhere with a few words. Your post also reminded me of one of my favourite time travel books, Alison Uttley A Traveller in Time which I first read as a child but re-read often.
I’ve just been re-reading Georgette Heyer’s The Unknown Ajax, so I’m on the fringe of the Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, in 1817. It’s summer (which is good)! There are smugglers around, but hapless rather than fierce ones. I’m in the world of an aristocratic family, with a domineering grandfather and his relations who he bullies as much as he can. Lovely Hugo Darracott has been there a couple of weeks, and has taken the measure of everyone. He is having fun pretending to be more bucolic than he really is, while his kindness prevents him from being as nasty to everyone as they deserve. I’m falling for him just as much as Anthea is!
I so agree with you about those opening lines of Mary Stewart’s. She could really transport you somewhere with a few words. Your post also reminded me of one of my favourite time travel books, Alison Uttley A Traveller in Time which I first read as a child but re-read often.
I’ve just been re-reading Georgette Heyer’s The Unknown Ajax, so I’m on the fringe of the Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, in 1817. It’s summer (which is good)! There are smugglers around, but hapless rather than fierce ones. I’m in the world of an aristocratic family, with a domineering grandfather and his relations who he bullies as much as he can. Lovely Hugo Darracott has been there a couple of weeks, and has taken the measure of everyone. He is having fun pretending to be more bucolic than he really is, while his kindness prevents him from being as nasty to everyone as they deserve. I’m falling for him just as much as Anthea is!
I so agree with you about those opening lines of Mary Stewart’s. She could really transport you somewhere with a few words. Your post also reminded me of one of my favourite time travel books, Alison Uttley A Traveller in Time which I first read as a child but re-read often.
I’ve just been re-reading Georgette Heyer’s The Unknown Ajax, so I’m on the fringe of the Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, in 1817. It’s summer (which is good)! There are smugglers around, but hapless rather than fierce ones. I’m in the world of an aristocratic family, with a domineering grandfather and his relations who he bullies as much as he can. Lovely Hugo Darracott has been there a couple of weeks, and has taken the measure of everyone. He is having fun pretending to be more bucolic than he really is, while his kindness prevents him from being as nasty to everyone as they deserve. I’m falling for him just as much as Anthea is!
I so agree with you about those opening lines of Mary Stewart’s. She could really transport you somewhere with a few words. Your post also reminded me of one of my favourite time travel books, Alison Uttley A Traveller in Time which I first read as a child but re-read often.
I’ve just been re-reading Georgette Heyer’s The Unknown Ajax, so I’m on the fringe of the Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, in 1817. It’s summer (which is good)! There are smugglers around, but hapless rather than fierce ones. I’m in the world of an aristocratic family, with a domineering grandfather and his relations who he bullies as much as he can. Lovely Hugo Darracott has been there a couple of weeks, and has taken the measure of everyone. He is having fun pretending to be more bucolic than he really is, while his kindness prevents him from being as nasty to everyone as they deserve. I’m falling for him just as much as Anthea is!
I love the sound of that Courtney Milan book, Shannon. Greenwich is a really interesting setting and an astronomer hero is right up my street. I will look out for that one!
I love the sound of that Courtney Milan book, Shannon. Greenwich is a really interesting setting and an astronomer hero is right up my street. I will look out for that one!
I love the sound of that Courtney Milan book, Shannon. Greenwich is a really interesting setting and an astronomer hero is right up my street. I will look out for that one!
I love the sound of that Courtney Milan book, Shannon. Greenwich is a really interesting setting and an astronomer hero is right up my street. I will look out for that one!
I love the sound of that Courtney Milan book, Shannon. Greenwich is a really interesting setting and an astronomer hero is right up my street. I will look out for that one!
The last book I read for myself was Hugh Howey’s ‘Shift’, set in a dystopian future in which the only surviving humans live in self sufficient underground silos. Every aspect of life is regulated by “The Order”. The penalty for non-conformity is exile to the outside, to die a horrific death as caustic airborne substances melt the flesh from your body. I’m conspiring with a bunch of rebels to overthrow the establishment…
On the other hand, a couple of hours ago, I was reading Milly Molly Mandy with the 5yo. Strolling through a bucolic, 1920s-ish Brit country village, hanging out with Milicent-Margaret-Amanda, Little Friend Susan and Billy Blunt. A far nicer place to spend time!
The last book I read for myself was Hugh Howey’s ‘Shift’, set in a dystopian future in which the only surviving humans live in self sufficient underground silos. Every aspect of life is regulated by “The Order”. The penalty for non-conformity is exile to the outside, to die a horrific death as caustic airborne substances melt the flesh from your body. I’m conspiring with a bunch of rebels to overthrow the establishment…
On the other hand, a couple of hours ago, I was reading Milly Molly Mandy with the 5yo. Strolling through a bucolic, 1920s-ish Brit country village, hanging out with Milicent-Margaret-Amanda, Little Friend Susan and Billy Blunt. A far nicer place to spend time!
The last book I read for myself was Hugh Howey’s ‘Shift’, set in a dystopian future in which the only surviving humans live in self sufficient underground silos. Every aspect of life is regulated by “The Order”. The penalty for non-conformity is exile to the outside, to die a horrific death as caustic airborne substances melt the flesh from your body. I’m conspiring with a bunch of rebels to overthrow the establishment…
On the other hand, a couple of hours ago, I was reading Milly Molly Mandy with the 5yo. Strolling through a bucolic, 1920s-ish Brit country village, hanging out with Milicent-Margaret-Amanda, Little Friend Susan and Billy Blunt. A far nicer place to spend time!
The last book I read for myself was Hugh Howey’s ‘Shift’, set in a dystopian future in which the only surviving humans live in self sufficient underground silos. Every aspect of life is regulated by “The Order”. The penalty for non-conformity is exile to the outside, to die a horrific death as caustic airborne substances melt the flesh from your body. I’m conspiring with a bunch of rebels to overthrow the establishment…
On the other hand, a couple of hours ago, I was reading Milly Molly Mandy with the 5yo. Strolling through a bucolic, 1920s-ish Brit country village, hanging out with Milicent-Margaret-Amanda, Little Friend Susan and Billy Blunt. A far nicer place to spend time!
The last book I read for myself was Hugh Howey’s ‘Shift’, set in a dystopian future in which the only surviving humans live in self sufficient underground silos. Every aspect of life is regulated by “The Order”. The penalty for non-conformity is exile to the outside, to die a horrific death as caustic airborne substances melt the flesh from your body. I’m conspiring with a bunch of rebels to overthrow the establishment…
On the other hand, a couple of hours ago, I was reading Milly Molly Mandy with the 5yo. Strolling through a bucolic, 1920s-ish Brit country village, hanging out with Milicent-Margaret-Amanda, Little Friend Susan and Billy Blunt. A far nicer place to spend time!
Oh, yes! A Traveller in Time is one of my favourite time travel books too, HJ! I have a battered copy on my shelf. Loved it!
Romney Marsh is such an atmospheric place for a book setting. That reminds me of Watch the Wall My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge.
Oh, yes! A Traveller in Time is one of my favourite time travel books too, HJ! I have a battered copy on my shelf. Loved it!
Romney Marsh is such an atmospheric place for a book setting. That reminds me of Watch the Wall My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge.
Oh, yes! A Traveller in Time is one of my favourite time travel books too, HJ! I have a battered copy on my shelf. Loved it!
Romney Marsh is such an atmospheric place for a book setting. That reminds me of Watch the Wall My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge.
Oh, yes! A Traveller in Time is one of my favourite time travel books too, HJ! I have a battered copy on my shelf. Loved it!
Romney Marsh is such an atmospheric place for a book setting. That reminds me of Watch the Wall My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge.
Oh, yes! A Traveller in Time is one of my favourite time travel books too, HJ! I have a battered copy on my shelf. Loved it!
Romney Marsh is such an atmospheric place for a book setting. That reminds me of Watch the Wall My Darling by Jane Aiken Hodge.
And that is the joy of reading, isn’t it! One minute in a dystopian future, the next in a bucolic village! Love it!
And that is the joy of reading, isn’t it! One minute in a dystopian future, the next in a bucolic village! Love it!
And that is the joy of reading, isn’t it! One minute in a dystopian future, the next in a bucolic village! Love it!
And that is the joy of reading, isn’t it! One minute in a dystopian future, the next in a bucolic village! Love it!
And that is the joy of reading, isn’t it! One minute in a dystopian future, the next in a bucolic village! Love it!
I love books set on Romney Marsh. Lucilla Andrews wrote a little-known trilogy set there, which is romantic suspense for want of a better description, set in the late 1960s. Kasey Michaels wrote a Regency trilogy featuring former privateer Becket. And there are some good children’s books by Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville. Then there’s Rye: E.F. Benson!
I love books set on Romney Marsh. Lucilla Andrews wrote a little-known trilogy set there, which is romantic suspense for want of a better description, set in the late 1960s. Kasey Michaels wrote a Regency trilogy featuring former privateer Becket. And there are some good children’s books by Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville. Then there’s Rye: E.F. Benson!
I love books set on Romney Marsh. Lucilla Andrews wrote a little-known trilogy set there, which is romantic suspense for want of a better description, set in the late 1960s. Kasey Michaels wrote a Regency trilogy featuring former privateer Becket. And there are some good children’s books by Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville. Then there’s Rye: E.F. Benson!
I love books set on Romney Marsh. Lucilla Andrews wrote a little-known trilogy set there, which is romantic suspense for want of a better description, set in the late 1960s. Kasey Michaels wrote a Regency trilogy featuring former privateer Becket. And there are some good children’s books by Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville. Then there’s Rye: E.F. Benson!
I love books set on Romney Marsh. Lucilla Andrews wrote a little-known trilogy set there, which is romantic suspense for want of a better description, set in the late 1960s. Kasey Michaels wrote a Regency trilogy featuring former privateer Becket. And there are some good children’s books by Monica Edwards and Malcolm Saville. Then there’s Rye: E.F. Benson!
Wonderful post, Nicola! Mary Stewart is marvelous at creating settings, but one can equally say it’s an example of terrific writing.
In the mood for comfort and wit, I’m rereading Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman mystery, COOKING THE BOOKS. I’m in Melbourne in a hot January summer, living in a Roman style apartment building with cats and baking and a gorgeous Sabra lover…
I’m also ambling through Felicity Kendal’s excellent memoir, WHITE CARGO. Not only is she a first rate British actress (I loved her in ROSEMARY AND THYME), but she’s a fine writer with an interesting life. She was raised in India and her parents had a traveling Shakespeare company, the inspiration for the Merchant Ivory movie Shakespeare Wallah. (I think that’s the title.) The memoir is structure around Felicity’s care for her stroke paralyzed father and her memories of life in India,breaking away to Britain, and building an acting career of her own. And she creates all of those worlds so well.
Wonderful post, Nicola! Mary Stewart is marvelous at creating settings, but one can equally say it’s an example of terrific writing.
In the mood for comfort and wit, I’m rereading Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman mystery, COOKING THE BOOKS. I’m in Melbourne in a hot January summer, living in a Roman style apartment building with cats and baking and a gorgeous Sabra lover…
I’m also ambling through Felicity Kendal’s excellent memoir, WHITE CARGO. Not only is she a first rate British actress (I loved her in ROSEMARY AND THYME), but she’s a fine writer with an interesting life. She was raised in India and her parents had a traveling Shakespeare company, the inspiration for the Merchant Ivory movie Shakespeare Wallah. (I think that’s the title.) The memoir is structure around Felicity’s care for her stroke paralyzed father and her memories of life in India,breaking away to Britain, and building an acting career of her own. And she creates all of those worlds so well.
Wonderful post, Nicola! Mary Stewart is marvelous at creating settings, but one can equally say it’s an example of terrific writing.
In the mood for comfort and wit, I’m rereading Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman mystery, COOKING THE BOOKS. I’m in Melbourne in a hot January summer, living in a Roman style apartment building with cats and baking and a gorgeous Sabra lover…
I’m also ambling through Felicity Kendal’s excellent memoir, WHITE CARGO. Not only is she a first rate British actress (I loved her in ROSEMARY AND THYME), but she’s a fine writer with an interesting life. She was raised in India and her parents had a traveling Shakespeare company, the inspiration for the Merchant Ivory movie Shakespeare Wallah. (I think that’s the title.) The memoir is structure around Felicity’s care for her stroke paralyzed father and her memories of life in India,breaking away to Britain, and building an acting career of her own. And she creates all of those worlds so well.
Wonderful post, Nicola! Mary Stewart is marvelous at creating settings, but one can equally say it’s an example of terrific writing.
In the mood for comfort and wit, I’m rereading Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman mystery, COOKING THE BOOKS. I’m in Melbourne in a hot January summer, living in a Roman style apartment building with cats and baking and a gorgeous Sabra lover…
I’m also ambling through Felicity Kendal’s excellent memoir, WHITE CARGO. Not only is she a first rate British actress (I loved her in ROSEMARY AND THYME), but she’s a fine writer with an interesting life. She was raised in India and her parents had a traveling Shakespeare company, the inspiration for the Merchant Ivory movie Shakespeare Wallah. (I think that’s the title.) The memoir is structure around Felicity’s care for her stroke paralyzed father and her memories of life in India,breaking away to Britain, and building an acting career of her own. And she creates all of those worlds so well.
Wonderful post, Nicola! Mary Stewart is marvelous at creating settings, but one can equally say it’s an example of terrific writing.
In the mood for comfort and wit, I’m rereading Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman mystery, COOKING THE BOOKS. I’m in Melbourne in a hot January summer, living in a Roman style apartment building with cats and baking and a gorgeous Sabra lover…
I’m also ambling through Felicity Kendal’s excellent memoir, WHITE CARGO. Not only is she a first rate British actress (I loved her in ROSEMARY AND THYME), but she’s a fine writer with an interesting life. She was raised in India and her parents had a traveling Shakespeare company, the inspiration for the Merchant Ivory movie Shakespeare Wallah. (I think that’s the title.) The memoir is structure around Felicity’s care for her stroke paralyzed father and her memories of life in India,breaking away to Britain, and building an acting career of her own. And she creates all of those worlds so well.
I think many of Mary Stewart’s vivid settings inspired my desire for travel! She was a master.
I am currently reading Frozen in Time by Michell Zuckoff so I am in Greenland, alternating between the present day and 1942. As I read this, I am freezing, just as the lost soldiers in 1942 were freezing as they waited for someone to find them…
I think many of Mary Stewart’s vivid settings inspired my desire for travel! She was a master.
I am currently reading Frozen in Time by Michell Zuckoff so I am in Greenland, alternating between the present day and 1942. As I read this, I am freezing, just as the lost soldiers in 1942 were freezing as they waited for someone to find them…
I think many of Mary Stewart’s vivid settings inspired my desire for travel! She was a master.
I am currently reading Frozen in Time by Michell Zuckoff so I am in Greenland, alternating between the present day and 1942. As I read this, I am freezing, just as the lost soldiers in 1942 were freezing as they waited for someone to find them…
I think many of Mary Stewart’s vivid settings inspired my desire for travel! She was a master.
I am currently reading Frozen in Time by Michell Zuckoff so I am in Greenland, alternating between the present day and 1942. As I read this, I am freezing, just as the lost soldiers in 1942 were freezing as they waited for someone to find them…
I think many of Mary Stewart’s vivid settings inspired my desire for travel! She was a master.
I am currently reading Frozen in Time by Michell Zuckoff so I am in Greenland, alternating between the present day and 1942. As I read this, I am freezing, just as the lost soldiers in 1942 were freezing as they waited for someone to find them…
I love Elizabeth Essex’s Almost A Scandal where the heroine disguises herself as a boy & takes the place of her brother aboard a Navy ship. All those nautical terms! Her writing is wonderful & brought the story so much to life. The romance was awesome too!
I love Elizabeth Essex’s Almost A Scandal where the heroine disguises herself as a boy & takes the place of her brother aboard a Navy ship. All those nautical terms! Her writing is wonderful & brought the story so much to life. The romance was awesome too!
I love Elizabeth Essex’s Almost A Scandal where the heroine disguises herself as a boy & takes the place of her brother aboard a Navy ship. All those nautical terms! Her writing is wonderful & brought the story so much to life. The romance was awesome too!
I love Elizabeth Essex’s Almost A Scandal where the heroine disguises herself as a boy & takes the place of her brother aboard a Navy ship. All those nautical terms! Her writing is wonderful & brought the story so much to life. The romance was awesome too!
I love Elizabeth Essex’s Almost A Scandal where the heroine disguises herself as a boy & takes the place of her brother aboard a Navy ship. All those nautical terms! Her writing is wonderful & brought the story so much to life. The romance was awesome too!
Thanks, Mary Jo! I enjoyed White Cargo very much too and you make the really good point that world creation – taking the reader with you – can apply to non-fiction too and the best memoirs do that really well.
Thanks, Mary Jo! I enjoyed White Cargo very much too and you make the really good point that world creation – taking the reader with you – can apply to non-fiction too and the best memoirs do that really well.
Thanks, Mary Jo! I enjoyed White Cargo very much too and you make the really good point that world creation – taking the reader with you – can apply to non-fiction too and the best memoirs do that really well.
Thanks, Mary Jo! I enjoyed White Cargo very much too and you make the really good point that world creation – taking the reader with you – can apply to non-fiction too and the best memoirs do that really well.
Thanks, Mary Jo! I enjoyed White Cargo very much too and you make the really good point that world creation – taking the reader with you – can apply to non-fiction too and the best memoirs do that really well.
Just the title of that book sounds fascinating, Sharon! Enough to make you shiver along with those lost soldiers.
Just the title of that book sounds fascinating, Sharon! Enough to make you shiver along with those lost soldiers.
Just the title of that book sounds fascinating, Sharon! Enough to make you shiver along with those lost soldiers.
Just the title of that book sounds fascinating, Sharon! Enough to make you shiver along with those lost soldiers.
Just the title of that book sounds fascinating, Sharon! Enough to make you shiver along with those lost soldiers.
Ooh, a shipboard romance! Yes, that’s a great world to create and populate!
Ooh, a shipboard romance! Yes, that’s a great world to create and populate!
Ooh, a shipboard romance! Yes, that’s a great world to create and populate!
Ooh, a shipboard romance! Yes, that’s a great world to create and populate!
Ooh, a shipboard romance! Yes, that’s a great world to create and populate!
I’m re-reading Jo Beverley’s The Dragon’s Bride because I just read A Shocking Delight and IT ENDED so I needed to dive back into that world. I may end up re-reading the entire series (again). So, I am with the Kerslakes and we are standing on a cliff (near real-life Beer) watching and listening and bickering a bit as the town rows out to the smuggling ship to offload the goods…
I’m re-reading Jo Beverley’s The Dragon’s Bride because I just read A Shocking Delight and IT ENDED so I needed to dive back into that world. I may end up re-reading the entire series (again). So, I am with the Kerslakes and we are standing on a cliff (near real-life Beer) watching and listening and bickering a bit as the town rows out to the smuggling ship to offload the goods…
I’m re-reading Jo Beverley’s The Dragon’s Bride because I just read A Shocking Delight and IT ENDED so I needed to dive back into that world. I may end up re-reading the entire series (again). So, I am with the Kerslakes and we are standing on a cliff (near real-life Beer) watching and listening and bickering a bit as the town rows out to the smuggling ship to offload the goods…
I’m re-reading Jo Beverley’s The Dragon’s Bride because I just read A Shocking Delight and IT ENDED so I needed to dive back into that world. I may end up re-reading the entire series (again). So, I am with the Kerslakes and we are standing on a cliff (near real-life Beer) watching and listening and bickering a bit as the town rows out to the smuggling ship to offload the goods…
I’m re-reading Jo Beverley’s The Dragon’s Bride because I just read A Shocking Delight and IT ENDED so I needed to dive back into that world. I may end up re-reading the entire series (again). So, I am with the Kerslakes and we are standing on a cliff (near real-life Beer) watching and listening and bickering a bit as the town rows out to the smuggling ship to offload the goods…
I just finished re-reading 1632 by Eric Flint for the library book club that I lead. So, I am with a bunch of small town West Virginians who have been transported back to 1632 Germany during the Thirty Years War. It is dangerous, dark, and bloody but with the help of my fellow West Virginians, the war is about to change.
Have to say that I absolutely love Mary Stewart and Jane Aiken Hodge both. My favorite Mary Stewart’s are The Moonspinners and This Rough Magic. My favorite Jane Aiken Hodge’s are Watch the Wall, My Darling and Greek Wedding.
Tomorrow, I hope to be in County Mayo, Ireland with Branna and Finbar and the rest of the O’Dwyer “family” when Blood Magickby Nora Roberts arrives on my Kindle.
I just finished re-reading 1632 by Eric Flint for the library book club that I lead. So, I am with a bunch of small town West Virginians who have been transported back to 1632 Germany during the Thirty Years War. It is dangerous, dark, and bloody but with the help of my fellow West Virginians, the war is about to change.
Have to say that I absolutely love Mary Stewart and Jane Aiken Hodge both. My favorite Mary Stewart’s are The Moonspinners and This Rough Magic. My favorite Jane Aiken Hodge’s are Watch the Wall, My Darling and Greek Wedding.
Tomorrow, I hope to be in County Mayo, Ireland with Branna and Finbar and the rest of the O’Dwyer “family” when Blood Magickby Nora Roberts arrives on my Kindle.
I just finished re-reading 1632 by Eric Flint for the library book club that I lead. So, I am with a bunch of small town West Virginians who have been transported back to 1632 Germany during the Thirty Years War. It is dangerous, dark, and bloody but with the help of my fellow West Virginians, the war is about to change.
Have to say that I absolutely love Mary Stewart and Jane Aiken Hodge both. My favorite Mary Stewart’s are The Moonspinners and This Rough Magic. My favorite Jane Aiken Hodge’s are Watch the Wall, My Darling and Greek Wedding.
Tomorrow, I hope to be in County Mayo, Ireland with Branna and Finbar and the rest of the O’Dwyer “family” when Blood Magickby Nora Roberts arrives on my Kindle.
I just finished re-reading 1632 by Eric Flint for the library book club that I lead. So, I am with a bunch of small town West Virginians who have been transported back to 1632 Germany during the Thirty Years War. It is dangerous, dark, and bloody but with the help of my fellow West Virginians, the war is about to change.
Have to say that I absolutely love Mary Stewart and Jane Aiken Hodge both. My favorite Mary Stewart’s are The Moonspinners and This Rough Magic. My favorite Jane Aiken Hodge’s are Watch the Wall, My Darling and Greek Wedding.
Tomorrow, I hope to be in County Mayo, Ireland with Branna and Finbar and the rest of the O’Dwyer “family” when Blood Magickby Nora Roberts arrives on my Kindle.
I just finished re-reading 1632 by Eric Flint for the library book club that I lead. So, I am with a bunch of small town West Virginians who have been transported back to 1632 Germany during the Thirty Years War. It is dangerous, dark, and bloody but with the help of my fellow West Virginians, the war is about to change.
Have to say that I absolutely love Mary Stewart and Jane Aiken Hodge both. My favorite Mary Stewart’s are The Moonspinners and This Rough Magic. My favorite Jane Aiken Hodge’s are Watch the Wall, My Darling and Greek Wedding.
Tomorrow, I hope to be in County Mayo, Ireland with Branna and Finbar and the rest of the O’Dwyer “family” when Blood Magickby Nora Roberts arrives on my Kindle.
I am reading the Outlander series; need I say more except that until this summer I had never even heard of these fabulous books. On top of that, I wasn’t even a fan of time travel either. However, I am so hooked on this series and on the show that I can’t get enough of it. Both draw y you in, make you feel like you’re right there in the story and won’t let you go when it’s over!
I am reading the Outlander series; need I say more except that until this summer I had never even heard of these fabulous books. On top of that, I wasn’t even a fan of time travel either. However, I am so hooked on this series and on the show that I can’t get enough of it. Both draw y you in, make you feel like you’re right there in the story and won’t let you go when it’s over!
I am reading the Outlander series; need I say more except that until this summer I had never even heard of these fabulous books. On top of that, I wasn’t even a fan of time travel either. However, I am so hooked on this series and on the show that I can’t get enough of it. Both draw y you in, make you feel like you’re right there in the story and won’t let you go when it’s over!
I am reading the Outlander series; need I say more except that until this summer I had never even heard of these fabulous books. On top of that, I wasn’t even a fan of time travel either. However, I am so hooked on this series and on the show that I can’t get enough of it. Both draw y you in, make you feel like you’re right there in the story and won’t let you go when it’s over!
I am reading the Outlander series; need I say more except that until this summer I had never even heard of these fabulous books. On top of that, I wasn’t even a fan of time travel either. However, I am so hooked on this series and on the show that I can’t get enough of it. Both draw y you in, make you feel like you’re right there in the story and won’t let you go when it’s over!
I’m just finishing a book set in the West Indies in 1875. As there’s quite a lot of assault and deathly illness in the book I’m not so sure about staying there!
The beaches do sound gorgeous, however!
I’m just finishing a book set in the West Indies in 1875. As there’s quite a lot of assault and deathly illness in the book I’m not so sure about staying there!
The beaches do sound gorgeous, however!
I’m just finishing a book set in the West Indies in 1875. As there’s quite a lot of assault and deathly illness in the book I’m not so sure about staying there!
The beaches do sound gorgeous, however!
I’m just finishing a book set in the West Indies in 1875. As there’s quite a lot of assault and deathly illness in the book I’m not so sure about staying there!
The beaches do sound gorgeous, however!
I’m just finishing a book set in the West Indies in 1875. As there’s quite a lot of assault and deathly illness in the book I’m not so sure about staying there!
The beaches do sound gorgeous, however!
Oh, HJ, you’re naming a few of my all-time favourites there — Hugo in Unknown Ajax, and then EF Benson. I had such fun in Rye, reading Ef Benson and spotting the various locations in his wonderful “Lucia” books.
I confess, I have not read A Traveller in Time. Maybe something to rectify.
Oh, HJ, you’re naming a few of my all-time favourites there — Hugo in Unknown Ajax, and then EF Benson. I had such fun in Rye, reading Ef Benson and spotting the various locations in his wonderful “Lucia” books.
I confess, I have not read A Traveller in Time. Maybe something to rectify.
Oh, HJ, you’re naming a few of my all-time favourites there — Hugo in Unknown Ajax, and then EF Benson. I had such fun in Rye, reading Ef Benson and spotting the various locations in his wonderful “Lucia” books.
I confess, I have not read A Traveller in Time. Maybe something to rectify.
Oh, HJ, you’re naming a few of my all-time favourites there — Hugo in Unknown Ajax, and then EF Benson. I had such fun in Rye, reading Ef Benson and spotting the various locations in his wonderful “Lucia” books.
I confess, I have not read A Traveller in Time. Maybe something to rectify.
Oh, HJ, you’re naming a few of my all-time favourites there — Hugo in Unknown Ajax, and then EF Benson. I had such fun in Rye, reading Ef Benson and spotting the various locations in his wonderful “Lucia” books.
I confess, I have not read A Traveller in Time. Maybe something to rectify.
I’m on the ship Tenacious as it’s now off course due to a drunken captain, so Lieutenant Charles Dance and Lady Jane are indeed experiencing paradise!
A Scandal to Remember by Elizabeth Essex.
I have never read Mary Stewart but I read all Victoria Holt’s gothic romance and loved them. Phyllis Whitney too! I do need to try Stewart books.
Cathie
CathieCaffey@gmail.com
I’m on the ship Tenacious as it’s now off course due to a drunken captain, so Lieutenant Charles Dance and Lady Jane are indeed experiencing paradise!
A Scandal to Remember by Elizabeth Essex.
I have never read Mary Stewart but I read all Victoria Holt’s gothic romance and loved them. Phyllis Whitney too! I do need to try Stewart books.
Cathie
CathieCaffey@gmail.com
I’m on the ship Tenacious as it’s now off course due to a drunken captain, so Lieutenant Charles Dance and Lady Jane are indeed experiencing paradise!
A Scandal to Remember by Elizabeth Essex.
I have never read Mary Stewart but I read all Victoria Holt’s gothic romance and loved them. Phyllis Whitney too! I do need to try Stewart books.
Cathie
CathieCaffey@gmail.com
I’m on the ship Tenacious as it’s now off course due to a drunken captain, so Lieutenant Charles Dance and Lady Jane are indeed experiencing paradise!
A Scandal to Remember by Elizabeth Essex.
I have never read Mary Stewart but I read all Victoria Holt’s gothic romance and loved them. Phyllis Whitney too! I do need to try Stewart books.
Cathie
CathieCaffey@gmail.com
I’m on the ship Tenacious as it’s now off course due to a drunken captain, so Lieutenant Charles Dance and Lady Jane are indeed experiencing paradise!
A Scandal to Remember by Elizabeth Essex.
I have never read Mary Stewart but I read all Victoria Holt’s gothic romance and loved them. Phyllis Whitney too! I do need to try Stewart books.
Cathie
CathieCaffey@gmail.com
Lynn, I’ve made a note of 1632 as my current wip is set in the same era and place. It sounds like a must read for me. Thank you!
Lynn, I’ve made a note of 1632 as my current wip is set in the same era and place. It sounds like a must read for me. Thank you!
Lynn, I’ve made a note of 1632 as my current wip is set in the same era and place. It sounds like a must read for me. Thank you!
Lynn, I’ve made a note of 1632 as my current wip is set in the same era and place. It sounds like a must read for me. Thank you!
Lynn, I’ve made a note of 1632 as my current wip is set in the same era and place. It sounds like a must read for me. Thank you!
Ooh, Trudy, what a treat to be discovering the Outlander series! Enjoy!
Ooh, Trudy, what a treat to be discovering the Outlander series! Enjoy!
Ooh, Trudy, what a treat to be discovering the Outlander series! Enjoy!
Ooh, Trudy, what a treat to be discovering the Outlander series! Enjoy!
Ooh, Trudy, what a treat to be discovering the Outlander series! Enjoy!
Well, I guess sometimes a very vivid setting can make you really *not* want to be somewhere, a case of escape from a good book rather than into one!
Well, I guess sometimes a very vivid setting can make you really *not* want to be somewhere, a case of escape from a good book rather than into one!
Well, I guess sometimes a very vivid setting can make you really *not* want to be somewhere, a case of escape from a good book rather than into one!
Well, I guess sometimes a very vivid setting can make you really *not* want to be somewhere, a case of escape from a good book rather than into one!
Well, I guess sometimes a very vivid setting can make you really *not* want to be somewhere, a case of escape from a good book rather than into one!
Hi Cathie! I loved the mystery and danger of Victoria Holt’s gothics and Phyllis Witney was another favourite of mine when I was in my teens. Through her books I read about exotic locations that seemed impossibly exciting to a teenager in Yorkshire!
Hi Cathie! I loved the mystery and danger of Victoria Holt’s gothics and Phyllis Witney was another favourite of mine when I was in my teens. Through her books I read about exotic locations that seemed impossibly exciting to a teenager in Yorkshire!
Hi Cathie! I loved the mystery and danger of Victoria Holt’s gothics and Phyllis Witney was another favourite of mine when I was in my teens. Through her books I read about exotic locations that seemed impossibly exciting to a teenager in Yorkshire!
Hi Cathie! I loved the mystery and danger of Victoria Holt’s gothics and Phyllis Witney was another favourite of mine when I was in my teens. Through her books I read about exotic locations that seemed impossibly exciting to a teenager in Yorkshire!
Hi Cathie! I loved the mystery and danger of Victoria Holt’s gothics and Phyllis Witney was another favourite of mine when I was in my teens. Through her books I read about exotic locations that seemed impossibly exciting to a teenager in Yorkshire!
I reckon we all understand that feeling Sylvia! Sometimes I feel so lost at the end of a book I simply have to get straight back to that world again.
I reckon we all understand that feeling Sylvia! Sometimes I feel so lost at the end of a book I simply have to get straight back to that world again.
I reckon we all understand that feeling Sylvia! Sometimes I feel so lost at the end of a book I simply have to get straight back to that world again.
I reckon we all understand that feeling Sylvia! Sometimes I feel so lost at the end of a book I simply have to get straight back to that world again.
I reckon we all understand that feeling Sylvia! Sometimes I feel so lost at the end of a book I simply have to get straight back to that world again.
I actually have 2 books that I’m reading now (an incredibly rare occurrence, but one of the books disappeared when my daughter went back to school after this weekend). So I’m both in the ‘mirror’ universe of the Djinn trying to save the hero’s city where magic is as commonplace as technology here as well as in a gold rush town in Montana with a sexy mysterious sheriff and vigilante. Very little in common other than the sexy heros. 🙂 The books? Emma Holly’s Tales of the Djinn: The Guardian and Roxanne Bitner’s Desperate Hearts.
I actually have 2 books that I’m reading now (an incredibly rare occurrence, but one of the books disappeared when my daughter went back to school after this weekend). So I’m both in the ‘mirror’ universe of the Djinn trying to save the hero’s city where magic is as commonplace as technology here as well as in a gold rush town in Montana with a sexy mysterious sheriff and vigilante. Very little in common other than the sexy heros. 🙂 The books? Emma Holly’s Tales of the Djinn: The Guardian and Roxanne Bitner’s Desperate Hearts.
I actually have 2 books that I’m reading now (an incredibly rare occurrence, but one of the books disappeared when my daughter went back to school after this weekend). So I’m both in the ‘mirror’ universe of the Djinn trying to save the hero’s city where magic is as commonplace as technology here as well as in a gold rush town in Montana with a sexy mysterious sheriff and vigilante. Very little in common other than the sexy heros. 🙂 The books? Emma Holly’s Tales of the Djinn: The Guardian and Roxanne Bitner’s Desperate Hearts.
I actually have 2 books that I’m reading now (an incredibly rare occurrence, but one of the books disappeared when my daughter went back to school after this weekend). So I’m both in the ‘mirror’ universe of the Djinn trying to save the hero’s city where magic is as commonplace as technology here as well as in a gold rush town in Montana with a sexy mysterious sheriff and vigilante. Very little in common other than the sexy heros. 🙂 The books? Emma Holly’s Tales of the Djinn: The Guardian and Roxanne Bitner’s Desperate Hearts.
I actually have 2 books that I’m reading now (an incredibly rare occurrence, but one of the books disappeared when my daughter went back to school after this weekend). So I’m both in the ‘mirror’ universe of the Djinn trying to save the hero’s city where magic is as commonplace as technology here as well as in a gold rush town in Montana with a sexy mysterious sheriff and vigilante. Very little in common other than the sexy heros. 🙂 The books? Emma Holly’s Tales of the Djinn: The Guardian and Roxanne Bitner’s Desperate Hearts.
In the book I’m reading right now, the heroine is currently visiting Sir Thomas More in the Tower of London, shortly before his execution. I admit I’m having some reservations about this book, as the heroine seems to be able to travel about not just England, but also the Continent, unaccompanied, at the drop of a hat!
In the book I’m reading right now, the heroine is currently visiting Sir Thomas More in the Tower of London, shortly before his execution. I admit I’m having some reservations about this book, as the heroine seems to be able to travel about not just England, but also the Continent, unaccompanied, at the drop of a hat!
In the book I’m reading right now, the heroine is currently visiting Sir Thomas More in the Tower of London, shortly before his execution. I admit I’m having some reservations about this book, as the heroine seems to be able to travel about not just England, but also the Continent, unaccompanied, at the drop of a hat!
In the book I’m reading right now, the heroine is currently visiting Sir Thomas More in the Tower of London, shortly before his execution. I admit I’m having some reservations about this book, as the heroine seems to be able to travel about not just England, but also the Continent, unaccompanied, at the drop of a hat!
In the book I’m reading right now, the heroine is currently visiting Sir Thomas More in the Tower of London, shortly before his execution. I admit I’m having some reservations about this book, as the heroine seems to be able to travel about not just England, but also the Continent, unaccompanied, at the drop of a hat!
I’m very late getting around to reading this post, but Mary Jo’s description just made me go and order White Cargo!
I’m very late getting around to reading this post, but Mary Jo’s description just made me go and order White Cargo!
I’m very late getting around to reading this post, but Mary Jo’s description just made me go and order White Cargo!
I’m very late getting around to reading this post, but Mary Jo’s description just made me go and order White Cargo!
I’m very late getting around to reading this post, but Mary Jo’s description just made me go and order White Cargo!
Great article Nicola! What Mary Stewart does is wonderful. It’s hard to do for some us, such as this paragraph I’ve been struggling with:
…”She stepped through the flap onto dewy green tendrils that bravely defied the spring cool earth, feeling them squish neath her toes as she ran down to the river, water bag flapping softly ‘gainst her leg, the ancient muse of the mountains drawing her thoughts into another world she loved…..” (from a book still unpublished.)
I wanted to create a certain feeling atmosphere and get a lot of info into it at the same time. I struggle with wordiness constantly!
Great article Nicola! What Mary Stewart does is wonderful. It’s hard to do for some us, such as this paragraph I’ve been struggling with:
…”She stepped through the flap onto dewy green tendrils that bravely defied the spring cool earth, feeling them squish neath her toes as she ran down to the river, water bag flapping softly ‘gainst her leg, the ancient muse of the mountains drawing her thoughts into another world she loved…..” (from a book still unpublished.)
I wanted to create a certain feeling atmosphere and get a lot of info into it at the same time. I struggle with wordiness constantly!
Great article Nicola! What Mary Stewart does is wonderful. It’s hard to do for some us, such as this paragraph I’ve been struggling with:
…”She stepped through the flap onto dewy green tendrils that bravely defied the spring cool earth, feeling them squish neath her toes as she ran down to the river, water bag flapping softly ‘gainst her leg, the ancient muse of the mountains drawing her thoughts into another world she loved…..” (from a book still unpublished.)
I wanted to create a certain feeling atmosphere and get a lot of info into it at the same time. I struggle with wordiness constantly!
Great article Nicola! What Mary Stewart does is wonderful. It’s hard to do for some us, such as this paragraph I’ve been struggling with:
…”She stepped through the flap onto dewy green tendrils that bravely defied the spring cool earth, feeling them squish neath her toes as she ran down to the river, water bag flapping softly ‘gainst her leg, the ancient muse of the mountains drawing her thoughts into another world she loved…..” (from a book still unpublished.)
I wanted to create a certain feeling atmosphere and get a lot of info into it at the same time. I struggle with wordiness constantly!
Great article Nicola! What Mary Stewart does is wonderful. It’s hard to do for some us, such as this paragraph I’ve been struggling with:
…”She stepped through the flap onto dewy green tendrils that bravely defied the spring cool earth, feeling them squish neath her toes as she ran down to the river, water bag flapping softly ‘gainst her leg, the ancient muse of the mountains drawing her thoughts into another world she loved…..” (from a book still unpublished.)
I wanted to create a certain feeling atmosphere and get a lot of info into it at the same time. I struggle with wordiness constantly!
I’ve been re-reading As You Desire, by Connie Brockway to write a review, so I was transported to Egypt, the complex Egypt of 1890s, where people from different colonial powers lived in Cairo doing business which not always were crystal clear.
As I’m very interested in History and a good love story, I simply loved it!
So, to answer your question – I’m in Egypt, with the wonderful dyslexic Harry Braxton and the very talented Desdemona Carlisle, having a great time.
I’ve been re-reading As You Desire, by Connie Brockway to write a review, so I was transported to Egypt, the complex Egypt of 1890s, where people from different colonial powers lived in Cairo doing business which not always were crystal clear.
As I’m very interested in History and a good love story, I simply loved it!
So, to answer your question – I’m in Egypt, with the wonderful dyslexic Harry Braxton and the very talented Desdemona Carlisle, having a great time.
I’ve been re-reading As You Desire, by Connie Brockway to write a review, so I was transported to Egypt, the complex Egypt of 1890s, where people from different colonial powers lived in Cairo doing business which not always were crystal clear.
As I’m very interested in History and a good love story, I simply loved it!
So, to answer your question – I’m in Egypt, with the wonderful dyslexic Harry Braxton and the very talented Desdemona Carlisle, having a great time.
I’ve been re-reading As You Desire, by Connie Brockway to write a review, so I was transported to Egypt, the complex Egypt of 1890s, where people from different colonial powers lived in Cairo doing business which not always were crystal clear.
As I’m very interested in History and a good love story, I simply loved it!
So, to answer your question – I’m in Egypt, with the wonderful dyslexic Harry Braxton and the very talented Desdemona Carlisle, having a great time.
I’ve been re-reading As You Desire, by Connie Brockway to write a review, so I was transported to Egypt, the complex Egypt of 1890s, where people from different colonial powers lived in Cairo doing business which not always were crystal clear.
As I’m very interested in History and a good love story, I simply loved it!
So, to answer your question – I’m in Egypt, with the wonderful dyslexic Harry Braxton and the very talented Desdemona Carlisle, having a great time.
Just found out that I am the winner of Ms. Cornick’s The Blanchland’s Secret.
I am really looking forward to reading it.
Thank you to both Ms. Cornick and the Word Wenches.
Just found out that I am the winner of Ms. Cornick’s The Blanchland’s Secret.
I am really looking forward to reading it.
Thank you to both Ms. Cornick and the Word Wenches.
Just found out that I am the winner of Ms. Cornick’s The Blanchland’s Secret.
I am really looking forward to reading it.
Thank you to both Ms. Cornick and the Word Wenches.
Just found out that I am the winner of Ms. Cornick’s The Blanchland’s Secret.
I am really looking forward to reading it.
Thank you to both Ms. Cornick and the Word Wenches.
Just found out that I am the winner of Ms. Cornick’s The Blanchland’s Secret.
I am really looking forward to reading it.
Thank you to both Ms. Cornick and the Word Wenches.
Thank you, Lynn. I’m so pleased you are happy to have won the book!
Thank you, Lynn. I’m so pleased you are happy to have won the book!
Thank you, Lynn. I’m so pleased you are happy to have won the book!
Thank you, Lynn. I’m so pleased you are happy to have won the book!
Thank you, Lynn. I’m so pleased you are happy to have won the book!