Welcome to Oakhaven – Sullatober Dalton

June 6, 2022

222 words

Tagged British History, Scottish History

O Solo Meow

At a meeting this morning I was reminded of songs the kind of which they don’t write anymore. Songs that were classics and deserve to be remembered along with the great operatic arias like Oh, […]

Best in Show / Books / Character Development / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Shadows in the Veldt / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / The Colonels Ducks at Oakhaven / Uncategorized / Welcome to Oakhaven

March 11, 2020

328 words

Tagged American colonists, Civil war, dalton, East India Company, Historical fiction

Mayflower and …

Why the Stuarts are so interesting.

Best in Show / Books / Character Development / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Sullatober Dalton / Welcome to Oakhaven

October 2, 2019

253 words
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Tagged Cairndhu, dalton, Hornblower, Oakhaven, Point of View

‘I’ is the Greatest

There are advantages in using a single point of view character in a novel.

Best in Show / Books / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized / Welcome to Oakhaven

September 22, 2019

372 words
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Tagged Editing, Gifts, Literary agent, Lorraine Mace, Point of View

More Points of View

Just fix the worst of it

Best in Show / Books / Fergus Findlay: Drover / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / The Colonels Ducks at Oakhaven / Uncategorized / Welcome to Oakhaven

August 28, 2019

233 words

Tagged Literary agent, Lorraine Mace, Marketing books, Oakhaven, Rewriting

Novels for sale

Writing novels is fun at every stage but it’s like building yachts, the biggest job is to get the hull laid up but it represents only about a quarter of the cost. The real money […]