Archive

Here's the not-so-new (but just as cool) stuff we've been doing.

Heather speaks about being a writer

Heather gives the Warkton WI some insight into this business of being a writer.

• Heather speaks about being a writer - added Feb 2007

Heather calls a halt to one book, and starts another

Portraying life in Mesopotamia in Leaving Eden was harder in terms of research than Heather expected. She decided to put that story aside and concentrate on something that she already knows an awful lot about - cricket - in Vitae Lampada.

• Heather leaves Eden for Trent Bridget - added 17 July 2006

Hay Festival 2006

May 2006. Jayne took her daughter along and saw the festival with new eyes. Heather mixes regrets with memorable highlights, including a certain Horrid little boy.

• We had a fab time at the Hay Festival - added 5 July 2006

Start of the NaNoWriMo first draft

Jayne finally gets around to posting the NaNoWriMo writing she blitzed during the first few days of November 2005.

• In Your Dreams draft - 15 April 2006

Reading at the Prose Slam

Heather is one of only 10 writers to read at the Oundle Festival Prose Slam.

• Heather at the Prose Slam - 15 April 2006

A novel completed, and another started

Heather's been a busy girl! She's finished writing A God Facing Both Ways and started on Leaving the Garden of Eden.

• A God Facing Both Ways - added 9 March 2006
• Leaving the Garden of Eden - added 9 March 2006

Crossing the NaNoWriMo finish line

The challenge: write 50,000 words in 30 days. Could Jayne do it, as a full-time working mother-of-two?

• Crossing the NaNoWriMo finish line - updated 28 Nov 2005

Reading at Faringdon Arts Festival

We read at an open session at the Faringdon Arts Festival. It was an intimate audience, but they warmed to our writing. And we had fun.

• Faringdon Arts Festival - added 17 July 2005

Our backstory

An Arvon course for writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy started it all, back at the dawn of time, when no-one had heard of digital cameras, and we wrote with quills on parchment.

• Our backstory - added 27 June 2005

Fun at the Hay Festival

May 2005. No writer can resist the siren call of the Hay Festival. (Well, if you can, you really don't know what you're missing - like a glimpse into the Green Room, for a start.)

• Fun at the Hay Festival - added 12 June 2005