What you can learn from television
No. not the American kind–I grew up with that. But I’m in Ireland, and I have a satellite dish that gets mainly UK television shows. Some are familiar from what’s…
Author: Sheila Connolly
What Makes a Place Real to You?
I am in Ireland, and if all the planning and fantasizing hold, that should be true for a while. I’ve been traveling to foreign countries since I was in college…
How Old Are Your Characters?
Happy Labor Day, and a belated “rabbit, rabbit” (I’ll admit I forgot). I had an interesting conversation with my agent lately. No, no new contracts in the offing, but much…
Firsts
It’s first Monday again, and while I’m sure we’ve covered a lot of different ones here, somehow I got to thinking about what the first books we read by ourselves,…
Glad to See You Here
***Breaking News*** Judy is the winner of the Tell Tail Heart giveaway from Thursday! Judy, drop your address to liz@spiritwriters.com. The Washington Post reported last year that the number of…
Familiars
By Sheila Connolly. Are you familiar with the term “familiar”? (Sorry—I couldn’t resist the pun.) Wikipedia says that it’s a medieval folk belief that they were supernatural entities that assisted…
The Clues Are in the Bottles
A few years ago I wrote about playing archeologist in the makeshift room off the kitchen in my house. It was (not very well) built mainly to serve as a…
The Way We Were
I’m going to be moving out of my oversized (four bedroom, two parlors and a stable) Victorian in the next few months, after fifteen years here. That means I’m going…