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  • Facts and fiction… leaving dead sheep in your garden will get you a fine!

    I spotted this little factoid in Land and People in Medieval Lincolnshire by Graham Platts, proving that there were strange crimes even back in the Middle Ages: “…Richard of Grayingham, an apparently prosperous butcher in the parish of St. Mary le Wigford, left forty dead sheep with flesh and hides on them in his garden,…

  • Ten things I learned while writing my novel

    Anachronism – “the representation of an event, person, or thing in a historical context in which it could not have occurred or existed.” http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anachronism?s=t As I poured words into the first draft of my novel, I often made an educated guess – okay, sometimes I just made things up – about certain events or things…