The idea of a female dovecote keeper opened a new world for me. I shouldn’t have been surprise that most dovekeepers were girls and women, after all, women are often the ones on farms today who care for chickens. My problem was that I assumed Anglo Saxon women prior to 1066AD were chattel, in the […]
Pigeons are fascinating, but they need context, a story and a conflict to be an interesting topic for a book. I thought and thought about how to frame pigeons to make them come alive for others. I wanted a battle. They’re always good for conflict and action. I needed human characters. I figured a book […]
About two years ago I decided to write a novel. My previous effort (note the singular) had issues, and rather than even try to revise it, I started all over. To tell the tale of how the novel came about I have to go back in time just a bit. About three years ago my […]
