Category Archives: Guest post

Guest author: Yecheilyah Ysrayl ~ NEW: Even Salt Looks Like Sugar: a novella

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Sue Vincent

A new book by Yecheilyah Ysrayl… Wanda wants nothing more than to escape the oppressive upbringing of life with her abusive foster mother. Miss Cassaundra manipulates the system by bringing lost children into her home turned whorehouse and collecting the … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Sarah Brentyn ~ Be the Grain You Were Meant to Be

Posted on September 23, 2018 by Sue Vincent

In one day, I saw three negative opinions about indie “authors”. (I use quotes here as these opinions implied indies are not actually authors.) One was a blog post and the other two were strings of tweets on Twitter. They … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Kevin Morris: Heartless, witless nature…

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Sue Vincent

In his fine poem (one of my favourites), “Tell me not here, it needs not saying”, A. E. Housman beautifully expresses his love of nature while (in the final verse) acknowledging that Mother Nature is, when all is said and … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Robbie Cheadle ~ Churchill’s War Rooms

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Background World War II was the first time in its history that Britain faced a concentrated threat from the air. This aerial threat necessitated some discussion about how the British government would run the impending war and from where. Initially, … Continue reading →

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Guest poet: Tempest ~ Two poems

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Ful – Less Today it matters. Tomorrow it doesn`t. Does it matter? Do I matter? Did it ever matter? Does it still matter anyway? Matters.? Meaning.? Sense.? Relevance.? Love. One day you love. Next day you forget. You deny it. … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Roberta Eaton ~ The Sutton Hoo Helmet

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Background Since its discovery in 1939, the Sutton Hoo Helmet has been a highly evocative symbol of Anglo Saxon England. The discovery of the Sutton Hoo Helmet The excavation of the grave barrows or mounds at Sutton Hoo was at … Continue reading →

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Living Lore: Bobby Fairfield ~ A very brief history of an infamous Exmoor family.

Posted on August 18, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Everyone was aware of the reputation accorded the family known as the Doones, who in the mid seventeenth century lived somewhere on the moors. Most could or would not say exactly where. They were reputed to be a family of … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Kevin Morris ~ Wild Flowers

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Sue Vincent

“I perceive The flowers as I Pass by. Should I Grieve That they will die? I paused and smelt And felt Their slim stems that I Could so easily break. I chose not to take And did the blooms forsake, … Continue reading →

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Living Lore: Lyn Horner ~ Coyote Tales

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Lyn Horner is back with more Navajo teaching tales… this time she writes of Coyote, a creature dear to Stuart and I as we worked with Coyote on the first book in our Lore Weavers series,  An Imperious Impulse: Coyote … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Tim Clarkson ~ Æthelflæd: the Lady of the Mercians

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Sue Vincent

This year marks the 1100th anniversary of the death of one of the most remarkable women in English history. Her name was Æthelflæd and she died at Tamworth in Staffordshire on 12th June 918. She was the eldest daughter of … Continue reading →

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