Fiona Cooper

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

This is the only book I've read that actually made me cry. Even on the second reading.

Gone Medieval Podcast: The Paston Letters, with Helen Castor www.podbean.com/media/share/... @hrcastor.bsky.social #History #Podcast

The Matlaske reliquary pendant. This is the sort of ‘device’ Margaret Paston may have worn and it was found around 3km from her first marital home in Gresham. Now on display in the Gallery of Medieval Life in the Norwich Cathedral Museum. I saw it properly for the first time yesterday.

Currently reading A History of the World in 47 Borders - Jonn Ellege. Fascinating look at how areas of land have been divied up, why, and by whom.

Livewired - David Eagleman. An insight into what's currently known about how the brain works. And how much we still don't know.

I'm now ashamed of my own phone . . . 😭

Out this month! #romanticnovels

The Dog's Days Aren't Over

There were also some people who saw brown and beige.

(It's all to do with the lighting in the original photo whether the brain thought it was in natural or artificial light)

I have it ready to throw myself in, but thought I'd get the overview from the BL exhibition and then focus on the detail around Margaret.
Also, I should be focusing on my own writing before I start researching something new 😂

Off to see that exhibition on Friday. I live not far from Paston and am finding the Paston family story fascinating

What's everyone reading this weekend?

Woman in a blue dress standing on a balcony overlooking 1930s New York.

This new release: Grace of the Empire State.

Very much enjoying it!

I gave up on art in Infant's School when my teacher told me I'd drawn a lovely squirrel.

It was a chicken.

Aqua gothic book cover, with twisted flowers, a big house and the silhouette of a Victorian woman, on a sparkly red backdrop, with 99p sticker. Book title is The Ravenswood Witch

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A stranger on the run steps into a missing woman's shoes... but Luna Greybourne was persecuted as a witch. Has the stranger evaded the law for a far worse fate?
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Woohoo! Very happy that this is out next week by a Comedy Women in Print award winner

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Had such a fantastic day with the lovely Gemma Tizzard celebrating the launch of Grace of the Empire State, her brilliant debut love story set in depression-era New York, that I missed to take more photos - but this one sums it all up! Go and get your copy now!

I've swept the kitchen floor, cleaned the worktops, brought in some firewood and am now editing scene in my rom com where a llama breaks free and creates mayhem at a medieval fair. No art/life immitation here!

I'm the same with my old Merlin fic. Had kudos only yesterday on something that's well over a decade old. But hey! Someone's still enjoying it 😀

Bio submitted for my book cover.
The Project - winner of the Seasiders' Write Debut Novel Award - out this year!

Guided tour of the marvellous Dragon Hall today #Norwich

Thursday, usual place? 🍕 Yes!

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

1. Strawberry picker
2. Shoe shop assistant
3. Waitress
4. Pathology lab assistant
5. Science teacher
6. Civil Service (multiple roles)

Writing what you don’t know: how to choose the right career for your characters Another month, and another authors’ Round Robin! This month author Skye Taylor has set us a thought-provoking topic… How do you choose the right career for your characters? When I first started wri…

If writers wrote only what they knew, we'd have far fewer stories about spaceships, medieval knights, or chefs or lawyers. How do you choose the right career for your characters? This is the topic of this month's authors' Round Robin helenafairfax.com/2024/11/16/w...
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A starter pack of authors who are members of the Romantic Novelists' Association
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Can you add me, please :)

Hello! I set up an account ages ago, then forgot all about it 😂

Prize-winning debut rom com The Project may be published at a yet unspecified date . . . hopefully while I'm still alive 😁

The BBC Good Food Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake is my go to recipe, but with chocolate ganache rather than icing. And I use black cherry compote as the filling to give it a bit of tartness 😁

‘The house had a solidity to it, granite walls built to weather any storms, inside or out.’
Sharing some of the sights and sounds that inspired #FindingJack
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Looking forward to my debut novel being published in 2024 courtesy of Seasiders' Write.
A Rom Com set in Peggleford, a small Norfolk seaside village that is anything but sleepy.
When Ellie inherits Dunes Cottage, it's not the picturesque hideaway she was anticipating. Or the life she had planned.