The Find
19th September 2026 by | Uncategorized
Apologies for the recent radio silence, but I am dedicating the next ten days to completing Part Two of The Queen’s Heart: Always — The Find.
I am connected to many other authors, but for those of you who have never written a historical novel, the process is an unusual and intensely personal one. I need to feel right in my head: calm, clear and completely open to absorbing the period.
My style of writing relies upon getting beneath the skin of my characters. I almost have to inhabit them so that I can understand what drove them, why they made the choices they did, how they reacted to events and how they dealt with the people around them. For a while, their world must become my world.
There is something enormously satisfying about completing a chapter, sitting back and thinking, ‘Yes, that worked. That was good.’
Next week, I shall be sending the completed draft to a few trusted readers who always review my work before publication. Therefore, if you do not hear very much from me over the coming week, please do not worry.
I am still here—just living in 1556.
Want to read my novels :
📙 The Queen’s Heart: Always:
GB UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HC86DLVR
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AU Australia : https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0HC86DLVR
CA Canada : https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0HC86DLVR
And of course, Norwich City Books : https://www.citybookshopnorwich.co.uk/
Gemma
Author & British Historian
Member of The Norfolk Archaeological Trust
www.murderinthetower.london
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