candace robb
walking the Mean Streets of Medieval York
Tag: King Edward III
Background on A TRIPLE KNOT: Envisioning Joan
An invitation to be the guest of honor at the meeting of a neighborhood book club who are reading A Triple Knot prompted me to reread the book I wrote…can it be 8-9 years ago?! Yes. I approached it with a bit of anxiety–would… Continue Reading “Background on A TRIPLE KNOT: Envisioning Joan”
Joan's Catch-22 (and it's publication day!)
“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?”–Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn) in The Lion in Winter. Katherine Hepburn’s droll delivery of that line became a mantra in my head as I wrote A Triple Knot, my book about Joan of Kent, the daughter… Continue Reading “Joan's Catch-22 (and it's publication day!)”
Joan’s Catch-22 (and it’s publication day!)
“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?”–Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn) in The Lion in Winter. Katherine Hepburn’s droll delivery of that line became a mantra in my head as I wrote A Triple Knot, my book about Joan of Kent, the daughter… Continue Reading “Joan’s Catch-22 (and it’s publication day!)”
Blanche, Lady Wake
As I count down from 2 weeks (yesterday!) until the publication of A Triple Knot (8 July!), I’ve been thinking about the stories that didn’t make the cut. I knew from the first that living as she did in the thick of the royal… Continue Reading “Blanche, Lady Wake”
Alice Perrers’s Pearls
Pearls. Beauty formed as protection for oysters and mussels from tiny stones or grains of sand. Layers and layers of a lustrous substance, nacre. Light reflected from the overlapping layers gives pearls their iridescent luster. I’ll be talking about The King’s Mistress at a… Continue Reading “Alice Perrers’s Pearls”
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