Eloise Kane

Close up shot of pale ears of wheat in a field soon to be harvested. All creams and beige, some stooping over.

Peak folk horror season is loading 👏

The dream! Maybe after book ten.

Really I just like to whinge. Having it all mapped out was extremely helpful when I had to write the first one, even though I still managed to go off on big tangents that didn't make the final cut 🫣

I don't have tonnes of experience as I've only written one book which is still in the publishing pipeline, but both ideas have come from questions which then morphed into the hook. I have a working title but don't mind it changing if something else is better. Publishing is collaborative.

It's a bit like planning a holiday: I choose a region & country, research to make a broad itinerary, fix a few things but allow space for stuff to happen on the go. I wrote the pitch for this a few months ago, but it's been steeping while its predecessor went through editing. Now nailing chapters.

I know the broad shape, but need to nail down and flesh out the chapters in such a way that shows the publisher what it'll look like without having every single detail lined up. This is non-fiction trade, where much of the research will be done along the way.

Nailing the book proposal is much harder than writing the actual book 🫠

By the time the whole thing has a proper shape it sort of writes itself (but this time next year I'll definitely whinge about having to finish another whole book, if anyone wants to publish this one 👀)

The independent researcher joy continues. How can I get access to bits of AM Digital without doing another PhD?

An orange pumpkin-shaped candle on a wooden table, two other lit candles in the background

It rained today, lit the spooky season candles to celebrate 🙌

Good point! Our next door neighbour is. They're well mapped, but it's nice to see.

Have been quite disengaged from general arch for much of this year but it occurred to me I hadn't seen any of the usual news reports, as I looked at the outline of the old ironworks on the village green!

Must have been a good year for crop marks, right? Or was the dry too late?

Once again, may I suggest to my future self and anyone else who would benefit from this sage advice:

Don't leave adding in your references to the very end 🫠

JADE for empress of everything.

A table of candles and printed maps, an open book with quest info on it. A man in the background is looking through a big book. An orange cocktail in a small glass sits in the foreground.

Cocktails and one of the girls' Christmas presents, like DnD-lite!

It's never too late!

She literally sellotaped her nose up so she could round the corner and ask 'What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here.'

The long game is worth it. So proud. Her younger sister doesn't get it at all 😆

I'm just waiting for her to find the Easter egg that is every time I tell her dad, 'I did a bad murder', it's a quote.

She got on it straight away & has done them all already, is planning to incorporate bits into drama next term 🤣 She's gunning for Psychoville but we've only got it on DVD and it's clearly a step too far. Would mean discovering the origin of the name of our cat tho - older than her and named Tealeaf.

Teen daughter just discovered Inside No 9 and immediately binge-watched the lot and this is her favourite. She's now hunting everything they've ever made to satisfy her curiosity!

This is definitely half the answer, the other half being skincare/make-up/newly-found-obsession-with-watching-Inside-No-9

I know teens spending hours in the bathroom is a thing but also HOW?!

We shall see! We'll be turning all the lights off later and playing various manhunt/Dracula games 🤞

A very dark scene with an old house with windows glowing orange in the night, with a stone porch.

A medieval dining room with long oak table and benches, looking down the table towards an unlit stone fireplace with wood floor joists above and a flagstone floor.

My home for the weekend is a late medieval manor with detached kitchen, set around a courtyard with a little-altered pentice 🥰 Happy birthday/Christmas to meeeeeee!

I've told my 10yo it's not haunted but it definitely is 😬👻

Just a few weeks! x

It was a joke at my own inability to be organised, rather than a swipe at those who are 😅

Welcome!

Why am I seeing so many people have finished their Christmas shopping? What is going on there?

My sister has hundreds and still watches them all. My parents have to be creative in sourcing new ones for her at Christmas nowadays 📼

The photo is taken from on top of a horse. The camera looks down the horse's neck with very long white mane to between two black ears. Beyond is a grass and mud country track with hedges either side and bare twisty oak branches sticking out. It is sunny and the sky is a bright but pale blue.

It was a perfect day to view things through the ears of a big cob.

Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.