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I'll be in #Livorno next month, talking at the #SanPatrizioLivornoFestival @italishmagazine.bsky.social about Margaret King (Mitchelstown 1773-Pisa 1835), feminist, educator, novelist, medical student in the ex-cinema Aurora. Full details to follow.

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The fun part of writing #historicalfiction: research. Also, trying to get a photo before my #cat Mirri knocks over all the books. This one is going to be a #renaissance #crimenovel set at the papal court of Alexander VI Borgia #noir with a physician as the unwilling hero.

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Today is the feast day of St Julian the Hospitaller, who killed his parents in a case of mistaken identity. He's the patron of boatmen, murderers, circus workers, wandering musicians, jugglers, travellers, innkeepers - and Ghent. This panel painting is by Masolino, c. 1425 #arthistory #Italy

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The most audacious territorial acquisition plan you've never heard of... - Imagine buying a WHOLE state like it's a garage sale item. This is NOT fake news." denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b... Signed in honour of my great-great grandfather, Vilhelm Sørensen #denmarkification

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My #bookreview of @isabelleschuler.bsky.social The House of Barbary @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social 'how did the macabre contents of the cellar come to be there, deprived even of their names?' historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-... #historicalfiction

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My #bookreview of Gareth Thomas's The Flying Soprano historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-... 'a wholly unsentimental sense of place and the privations of the time' @ylolfa.bsky.social #historicalfiction #Wales

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My #bookreview of Sebastian Smee's Paris In Ruins for the Historical Novel Society @oneworldbooks.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/pari... Smee is above all observant... #historicalfiction

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Today is the feast day of St Apollonia, patron saint of dentists (as part of her martyrdom all of her teeth were pulled). Here she is holding pincers, in a painting attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi, who knew quite a bit about the physical and mental abuse of women #arthistory #Italy

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My books are circulating at last when they turn up in charity shops. @oxfamgb.bsky.social have a nice clean copy of #TheMaidenofFlorence and of my Katie Hutton titles online. 30% off for 3+! #sustainability #recycle onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/searchresult... onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/searchresult...

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Lovely #bookreview of the Italian edition of #TheMaidenofFlorence #LaVerginediFirenze: amicadeilibri.blogspot.com/2025/01/rece... 'to remember is the highest form of respect' #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #author

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Lovely evening in the Diocesan Library in Massa, the first of three launches for the Italian edition of #TheMaidenofFlorence #LaVerginediFirenze - with the support of Centro Italiano Femminile, Lettori ad alta Voce and Dal Libro alla Solidarietà. #historicalfiction #translation #writingcommunity

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Oh... from the windows of where I have been staying the last two nights, with dear friend @lorrainerogerson.bsky.social, plus a Grand Canal view taken from the landing stage of the Guggenheim #Venezia First time I've been to Venice in ages without the excuse of writing a book set there.

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Lovely announcement on Diari Toscani of tomorrow's #booklaunch #historicalfiction www.diaritoscani.it/2025/02/06/l...

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Have a book release coming up? A recent release? The HNS Author Interview Team is booking for 2025 and beyond. Interviews can be requested for works of #historicalfiction, hf subgenres and selected NON-FICTION. historicalnovelsociety.org/request-an-a... #historicalfiction #author #writingcommunity

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Read my #Q&A with Bonnie DeMoss and her 5* #bookreview of #TheBalladofMaryKearney here: bonniereadsandwrites.com/2025/02/05/b... #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #author #Ireland

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Friday coming - with the support of CIF (Centro Italiano Femminile) - the first Italian launch of #LaVerginediFirenze #TheMaidenofFlorence #historicalfiction #MeToo #writingcommunity #author Massa - with Carrara and Fivizzano to follow #Piemme #Fairlight

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Find out more about my #writinglife in this interview with Audrey Wilson, fellow presenter at last year's International Dublin Writers Festival www.audreywilsonauthor.com/blog/an-inte... #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #author

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My #bookreview of Lindsay Marie Morris's historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-... #historicalfiction #writingcommunity 'a tender story of love’s efforts to survive against the odds, gently and movingly told.'

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This was spotted in Secret Kingdoms English language bookshop, Madrid, today. #shelfie #historicalfiction #TheMaidenofFlorence

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I unreservedly recommend @mfrancispoet.bsky.social's Nocturne with Gaslamps. My #bookreview: historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/noct... a Victorian theatrical melodrama on the page @neemtreepress.bsky.social #historicalfiction #noir

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Over the moon about being Editor's Choice in the latest issue of the Historical Novel Society's journal historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-... #theballadofmarykearney #historicalfiction #Ireland #writingcommunity @historia-hwa.bsky.social

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Today is the feast day of the conversion of St Paul apparently... so here's Caravaggio's magnificent painting of the event, in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, c.1601 #arthistory #Italy

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I'm primarily here to talk about writing, but as I fully support what #MariannBudde said, I'm posting this petition. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/thank-y... If you disagree, I'd respectfully ask you to stop following me as I don't think we'll ever get along.

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In case you're in #Livorno around St Patrick's Day, I'll be speaking at the San Patrizio Livorno Festival on Margaret King Moore (Mitchelstown 1773 - Pisa 1835) pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft #Irishwriting #writingcommunity

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My #WIP is set at the court of the Borgia pope Alexander VI, a womaniser with a creepy way with his own daughter, who bribed his way to the highest office, claiming he was anointed by God, in order to enrich himself and his family. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose... #historicalfiction

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Delighted to feature on @maddyreadsherstory.bsky.social's blog as a top #bookrecommendation to start 2025 #historicalfiction #Irishwriting #Ireland #writingcommunity #amwriting

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I am featured in #author showcase this week in @historia-hwa.bsky.social magazine with #TheBalladofMaryKearney @historicalwriters.bsky.social historicalwriters.org (scroll down) #historicalfiction #Irishwriting

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My #author copies of #TheBalladofMaryKearney get closer. Today they are in Livorno (photo of old customs house pre RAF). Yesterday they were indeed in Venice, not coming up the Grand Canal by barge, but in a depot at the back of the airport. Excited... #historicalfiction #writingcommunity

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My #author copies of #TheBalladofMaryKearney are on their way from the publisher in #LasVegas. They cleared Italian customs yesterday. I don't know where that was done so here's a picture of the old customs house in Venice instead. #HistoricalFiction #writingcommunity

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Want to banish January blues with something to look forward to? I'd recommend @italywriters.bsky.social's May retreat deep in the Abruzzo countryside. Full details here: www.sunflowerpublishing.com/writing-retr... Guest speaker Santa Montefiore, no less #writingcommunity #amwriting #author

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I'm in @historia-hwa.bsky.social today, to mark #publication of #TheBalladofMaryKearney #historicalfiction #Irishwriting #writingcommunity #author #bookrecommendation! @francesowen.bsky.social www.historiamag.com/ballad-mary-...

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It's out at last! The first draft of this book was written in 2016, thanks to a talking to from @bridgeanne.bsky.social 8 novels out since, but I kept faith with this one (revised it a lot, of course) #Irishwriting #historicalfiction #publicationday #newrelease #Histria @historia-hwa.bsky.social

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