RosemaryMorris.HistoricalNovelist

  What are you reading? I have finished reading The Girl Who Died, set in Iceland, ,a page turner by Ragnar Jonasson. Tags on the front cover. Is the the best crime writer in the world today' The Times.?' and 'Welcome to Skalar. Population Ten and falling... 'Jonasson has the full measure of the Nordid noir genrre and pushes all the buttons.' Financial Times.

  I've almost finished revising and editing my new novel The Viscount and The Orphan. After I read it to check it I shall send it to my publisher. Yesterday I made tomato chutney with organic tomatoes and apples from my garden + pickling spice, mustard, sugar and organic cider vinegar. It's delicious in sandwiches. Today granddaughter number three visited me. I helped her make an egg free vegetarian fruit cake before lunch. A chickpea and vegetable stew and chocolate pudding for desert. Now back to work on the novel.

  Novelists get the facts right. I mentioned rosewood furniture in my new novel set in England beween 1703 and 1705. I thought, hang on a minute and researched rosewood. It which was not used in the U.K for furniture until the 19th century. Not sure when it was first used in China.

  Lots of problems recently when preparing my novel for publication. For an unknown reason the file I worked on was corrupted. Next, my lap top was hacked and then miscrosoft word crashed. Back on track now that my publisher kindly decided to move publication from September to October. 5 Fenella Miller, Lorna Read and 3 others