Anne's Blog

 I have been doing some interviews with fellow Historical Novel Society authors who are launching a new book for more than a year now. Protagonist Anne Askew in Prize for the Fire sparked a lively 75-minute conversation with Rilla, which had to be reduced to 1,000 words for the article. I hope I captured Rilla's passion for her subject. https:// historicalnovelsociety.org/ launch-rilla-askews-prize-for- the-fire/

 I have had about a year and a half of getting excited about the possibility of a film about Richard III and now the release date of October 7th has been announced!  The Lost King will be premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and how I would dearly love to be there with a boatload of my books to peddle outside the theater! The film is billed as a "comedy-drama" about one woman's quest to unearth the burial site of Richard after his mutilated body was ignominiously tied over the back of a horse and ordered buried "somewhere" in the Greyfriars monastery grounds in Leicester following the Battle of Bosworth. As soon as I heard that Sally Hawkins was cast to play the bones' discoverer, Philippa Langley, I took the liberty of sending my new book, This Son of York, to her publicist in the hopes it would reach her as she did her research for the movie. Sadly, I never heard if she received it. But I tried! Here's all you need to know! https://www.

  A s many of you who prefer listening to a reading have probably noticed, the narrator can make or break a book. The narrator for my first books was the award-winning former actor Rosalyn Landor. She made my characters come alive so well that I was pleased and proud of her work.  The same cannot be said for Royal Mistress! Despite my agent's insistence that the contract with Audible included hiring Roz Landor again, they ignored her and me and the result was not as pleasing IMHO. When it came to This Son of York 's publishing process, as many of you know, I was on my own; like so many of my fellow writers subject to the vagaries of traditional publishers, I was left out to dry. The result was contracting with Bellastoria Press , a small independent publisher, who did a beautiful job on creating and distributing the print and ebook versions, albeit leaving me alone to do marketing. But when it came to an audiobook, my husband and I thought long and hard as to whether to invest