Mad as a March Hare
Hares are really hard to draw with simplified lines. For added difficulty I also tried with Early Medieval Pictish carved stone-style curled joints and Lindisfarne Gospels-style inner lines.
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The Picts carved many different beasts on their stones in the Early Medieval. Some real, some imaginary, a few somewhere in between. I set out to learn how to use the style to draw animals that they never did…
Read more "Haring After Picts"The God of will, shall, must…
Julian of Norwich is the one who wrote “All shall be well, and all shall be well…” It’s often misquoted, and I prefer the misquotation because it less prescriptive than promissory…
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I am an accidental medievalist—snared by the Early Medieval through story not scholarship. Now I’m using fiction informed by scholarship to try change public notions of the Early Medieval. Here’s an interesting open-access journal article assessing one aspect of my impact.
Read more "Arthuriana and the Queer Medieval"Hild’s cross
I love the cross Hild wears on the cover of HILD and MENEWOOD—but it’s probably not what she would have worn
Read more "Hild’s cross"Zoomorphic art
A project to create black and white zoomorphic images based on insular art
Read more "Zoomorphic art"Back to those women warriors, again
Round and round we go—circular reasoning and its role in historical bias
Read more "Back to those women warriors, again"Nativity scenes
Was Francis of Assisi to blame for all those interminable nativity plays school children and their cruel teachers use to both amuse and horrify their parents? And would there have been nativity plays in 7th-C Britain?
Read more "Nativity scenes"Rudolph, her baby, and her girlfriend
Rudolph is a girl with a baby and a girlfriend. My kind of family tale.
Read more "Rudolph, her baby, and her girlfriend"Two Battles — the Battle of Hatfield
Part One of my two-part examination of the major battles that bookend Menewood.
Read more "Two Battles — the Battle of Hatfield"Buy My Book!
MENEWOOD is out in the UK in paperback. As any writer will tell you: the hardest part of being an author isn’t writing the book, it’s selling it to readers who are inundated with choice. I’m guessing even Bede sometimes shouted desperately: Buy My Book!
Read more "Buy My Book!"Feast Day of James the Deacon
Today is the Feast Day of James the Deacon, one of the original Roman mission to Britain, and a huge influence on Hild.
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I’ve been busy with many things—personal, professional, parental—that last few months and forgot to post about an event I did during Pride month here in Seattle. The whole event was huge—the doors were open from a little after 6:00 pm and I was signing books until after 10:00 pm. Before the main event we had […]
Read more "The Queer Medieval"Yorkshire Day!
It’s Yorkshire Day! But, er, what is Yorkshire?
Read more "Yorkshire Day!"Menewood is out now!
The second novel about Hild, Menewood, is out now in North America in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook, and in the UK in audiobook and ebook, with the hardcover available in late November. It has a gorgeous cover by Anna and Elena Balbusso—the same artists who painted the Hild cover. And, as with Hild, I forgive […]
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