My next book will be another historical fiction novel, this time set in a village in Warwickshire. Mentioned in the Doomsday Book, the village has a rich history spanning the centuries and offers the perfect setting for a new historical fiction novel. This will be a tale of love, loss, land and loyalty spread over several time periods.
I have been struggling with Long Covid for the past three years and my diagnosis was recently evolved into ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ alongside dysautonomia. I have a lot of fatigue and that’s made doing research for the next book really challenging on top of working. However, I have now adjusted my working week so I am hopefully able to get back to my research and ultimately get to writing my second book.
I am pretty sure there will be corvids involved and I have re-opened the research gently with some crow-based reading and the purchasing of a corvid cuddly!
I visited Tamworth Castle last year and was excited to see the ‘witch marks’ in the Elizabethan porch. I think witchcraft will almost certainly feature in the next novel…
Those of you who have been asking about my next book might find the FB video above offering a sneaky look in my research journal interesting!
You can’t just sit down and write a historical fiction novel without research and my next book has five time periods spanning a thousand years, so there is quite a lot of reading for me to do! These are some of the books I am working my way through. They might give you a clue about the kind of characters and plot you will encounter in The Web…
Three: The Tale of Brave Women and the Eyam Plague by Jennifer Jenkins 