ChuckAn #introduction seems customary, so here's mine. I'm here mainly to share my #writing. I'm from #WestVirginia, live outside #Philadelphia, and am currently enamored with #NewMexico, but those are just places and I'm really wherever my mind takes me. To ensure that this sounds like a hideous dating profile, I'll share my interests in #strengthtraining, #traveling, #streaming, #reading, #football, #nature, and #cooking, or eating dishes others cook, as the case may be. What are you #creating?
Debby Taylor-Lane
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Historical Novelist immersed in 15th century England. Relocated Yorkshire lass.
Mesolithic era grave, near Copenhagen.
The woman was +/- 20 at death. The infant a newborn. They probably died together in childbirth.
Perforated shells and animal teeth near her feet suggested she’d been clad in a garment trimmed with trinkets. By her head were 200 red deer teeth, each from a different animal-likely a necklace..
The baby was placed upon the wing of a swan. Across its hips lay a little blade of blue flint.
LUDLOW Castle, Salop.
C11 - Built in stone after Conquest.
C12 - Fortified during Anarchy.
1301 - Acquired by Mortimer family.
1425 - Inherited by Richard, Duke of York (father Kings Edward IV & Richard III).
Symbol of Yorkist authority during
Wars of the Roses.
1461- Became Crown property.
1502 - Place of Prince Arthur's (Henry VIII's older brother) death.
(Also the opening location in my book 😃)
BAMBURGH Castle, Northumberland.
Originally Brittonic fort built 547 (home to #LostKingdom's #Uhtred)
Rebuilt by Normans late C11
1464-After 9 month siege, became first English castle to be defeated by artillery (cannon).
Hello everyone! It's great to be here.
My two main loves are history (all, but specifically the Plantagenets) and writing. I combined both to write historical fiction and have been writing a 4 book series set in fifteenth century England for the past six years. Still loving it, and still plodding along.
The wonderful @Emmacox told me about Mastodon - thanks, Emma 😘 I'm looking forward to meeting you all. (Once I discover how everything works.)