Tag: A Trust Betrayed

My Unruly Characters

At first it surprised me that the characters I created in my books chatted and interacted with each other even when I stepped away from my desk. While I weeded the garden, walked with friends, washed dishes, fell asleep, I eavesdropped on Owen Archer,… Continue Reading “My Unruly Characters”

Two Interviews on the Margaret Kerr Blog Tour

I’m momentarily distracted by an ongoing, quite heated argument between Kate Clifford and her mother. While I deal with them, I thought you might enjoy reading two interviews that appeared this week as part of Maggie’s tour. In the first, I’m interviewed; in the… Continue Reading “Two Interviews on the Margaret Kerr Blog Tour”

Relishing New(ish) Research About William Wallace and all that

Poking around in research about the English/Scottish border in the late 14th century (for the Kate Clifford series), I keep discovering bits and pieces of research that give me shivers of, oh, if only this had been published while I was writing the Margaret… Continue Reading “Relishing New(ish) Research About William Wallace and all that”

My first glimpse of Margaret Kerr was from a train heading north

On a warm summer day in the late ’90’s, I was staring out the window of the train from York to Edinburgh when I first encountered the young woman who would become Maggie Kerr. This was the last leg of a book tour and… Continue Reading “My first glimpse of Margaret Kerr was from a train heading north”

In Celebration of the Margaret Kerr Series in E-books (US & Canada)

All three books in the Margaret Kerr series are now available as e-books in the US and Canada (11 August). This is the first publication of books 2 and 3, The Fire in the Flint and A Cruel Courtship in North America. So this… Continue Reading “In Celebration of the Margaret Kerr Series in E-books (US & Canada)”