Link to Ghost Wife on the image Jane Eyre and Lyra Leyton: Two Governesses, Two Centuries Apart Around 1820, when Jane Eyre was nineteen, she posted an advertisement, offering her services as a governess, in the local newspaper. She desperately wanted to leave Lowood, a harsh and oppressive boarding school for orphaned and impoverished girlsContinue reading “Echoes of Jane Eyre: Love, Secrets and Gothic Intrigue”
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Podcast Episode: Eyre Hall And Gothic Romance
In this podcast episode, Pip and Myra explore The Eyre Hall Series and the gothic-romance elements that connect it with Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. You’ll hear about my creative process in writing the series and how it culminated in Ghost Wife, a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre.
Ghost Wife: A Chilling Romantic Suspense
Ghost Wife is my contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre and it’s free for five days from today! on Amazon KDP. In this post I’ll tell you why and how I came to write it. But first here’s part of the blurb: The first Mrs Rochester If Mr Rochester had lived in the present century, heContinue reading “Ghost Wife: A Chilling Romantic Suspense”
SNOW MOON AT EYRE HALL
Snow Moon at Eyre Hall, is not the last novel in the series (I’m in the process of writing Book 6), and although it’s Book 5, I realised as I wrote it that Snow Moon is the most important novel in The Eyre Hall Series, because it contains the climax and resolution of the BloodContinue reading “SNOW MOON AT EYRE HALL”
Thunder Moon at Eyre Hall
Thunder Moon at Eyre Hall is Book 4 in The Eyre Hall Series, but even if you haven’t read the first three books I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, Thunder Moon is free today on Amazon, and I’m sure that when you’ve read the previous books in the series, you’ll be impatient to read Thunder Moon,Continue reading “Thunder Moon at Eyre Hall”
Twelfth Night at Eyre Hall
In my previous post I told you about the very first novel I wrote, All Hallows at Eyre Hall, originally Book I of the Eyre Hall Series. Six years later, I published a prequel, to the series, Blood Moon at Eyre Hall, so now it’s book II, and today I’d like to tell you aboutContinue reading “Twelfth Night at Eyre Hall”
Back to All Hallows at Eyre Hall
Although I wrote All Hallows at Eyre Hall, in 2013, I later revised the whole series, and in 2020, All Hallows became book two. I wrote ‘Blood Moon at Eyre Hall’, the prequel to All Hallows, and the series, because I realised that many readers hadn’t actually read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and they needed some more back story.
However, if you are one of the lucky readers who knows all about Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, All Hallows at Eyre Hall is a great place to start reading the series, and today both books, Blood Moon and All Hallows are on offer as a free e-book, and if you’re still reading this post, I’m positive you’ll love the Eyre Hall Series.
Help me finish my #August #Haiku! #Summer
Capturing the instant I love writing haiku. The only thing that I find remotely similar, but far quicker, is snapping photos. Both actions try to defy time. They capture an instant and freeze time. This creates the illusion that I’m stopping the clock. However, I’m not, because we can’t. We can’t even remember most momentsContinue reading “Help me finish my #August #Haiku! #Summer”
Lessons from the Storm: Gratitude, Resilience and Hope
Last month marked the five-year anniversary of the 2020 lockdown, a challenging period filled with personal hardships and fears of loss. Despite the overwhelming uncertainty, the experience fostered resilience and gratitude for life. Lessons learned during this time emphasize the importance of hope and growth, even through life’s smaller storms. The post includes poems to illustrate and reinforce the topics discussed.
Rainy Reflections: Crafting Haikus in Southern Spain
A rainy end of winter has hijacked Andalucia, a soggy revolt against our 300 sunny days. I’m literally drowning in inspiration watching the insistent drops ping enthusiastically off leaves and windowpanes, so I wrote a haiku for these little daredevils. Maybe you’d like to read it?
