AURELIA cover image!

Yesterday, I signed off this beautiful, beautiful cover for AURELIA, the fourth Roma Nova alternate history thriller. SilverWood Books have done it again! The sharp-eyed will see the new mosaic pattern in the inner shield echoed around the eagle itself. The silver lettering and eagle mark out a change: the next three books shift back […]

Roma Novan heroines and gender pressure on men

The Roma Nova heroines – Carina and Aurelia Mitela – are ‘tough gals’; dedicated, strong-willed, physically and mentally resilient and tied into their sense of history and duty. Underlying all this, their driving force is their self-belief.

Carina, despite her disrupted childhood and separation from Roma Nova until she was twenty-four, has embraced Roma Novan […]

Applying research

Research. Yeah, I know, a sticky subject in more ways than one. Writing of any sort needs research whether it’s a modern shoes-and-shopping story, crime thriller or a historical magnum opus.

Almost every story written hinges on a set-up or a problem the writer has purposefully created, but it must be plausible. Readers will engage […]