PLEASE NOMINATE MY LATEST NOVEL “LOVE IS ALL”
My latest novel is finished and ready to be published. But this time I am going to try something different. I’m hoping to publish through Kindle Scout. Never heard of […]
Why do you use Facebook?
Why do you use Facebook? Personally I use it mainly as a marketing tool. With around a billion users, it is a great way to bring my latest books to […]
A TURNING WIND
JG Harlond has a close affinity with the sea, having grown up in north Devon and this is plain to see in her second book in The Chosen Man Trilogy. […]
How Resilient are You?
I realised the other day that I have completed twelve books during the time I have been writing professionally—now ten years—and that my books fall neatly into two separate categories. […]
UK to pay compensation to surviving child migrants
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has published its findings into the abuse of British children who were sent to Australia under the Child Migration Programme. It heard from 48 witnesses […]
Fashion guru – 10th century style
When I was researching into the background for my series of historical novels entitled The al-Andalus series, it wasn’t just dates and battles that I needed to know about. I […]
Will they have closure at last?
In 2012 I read an article in the Economist that stunned me. It was about the children who’d been sent to the British Dominions during, before and even after World […]
Historical Fiction: why we like a good series
The only series of books that I’ve written is the al-Andalus trilogy, set in 10th century Spain. The fact it has ended up as a trilogy doesn’t mean I set […]
PRIMARY SOURCES: a treasure for the historical novelist
It really came home to me when I was writing my historical novel Spanish Lavender—set in Málaga during the Spanish Civil War—the importance of primary sources, eye-witness accounts. There were plenty of […]
The art of al-Andalus: STUCCO
Those of you who have visited the Great Mosque in Córdoba, the ruins of Madinat al-Zahra or the Alhambra in Granada cannot fail to have been impressed by the beautiful carvings […]