Donna Fletcher Crow, Novelist of British History, has written more than 50 books specializing in British Christianity. These books include: The Monastery Murders, clerical mysteries; Lord Danvers Investigates, Victorian true-crime; The Elizabeth and Richard series, literary suspense; and Glastonbury, The Novel of Christian England. She loves research and sharing you-are-there experiences with her readers.
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A traveling researcher engages people and places from Britain's past and present, drawing comparisons and contrasts between past and present for today's reader.
WRITING HALF THE BOOK
By Fay Sampson ~ July 31, 2018
The Author is the one with authority. So you may think that we are fully in control of the books we write.OLD BOOKS, NEW LIFE Fay Sampson on Rewriting Morgan le Fay
By Fay Sampson ~ June 20, 2018
The great thing about writing books is that they acquire a life of their own after they’re published.Having Faith in Our Books
By Fay Sampson ~ July 6, 2017
I can remember the time when the main topic of conversation when authors got together was griping about their publishers. On my side, I feel a real debt of gratitude to those who publish me. It is a considerable act of faith to invest money in the work of an author in these often difficult times.Prayer and the Imagination
By Fay Sampson ~ November 18, 2016
Publishing can be a long road, even for a writer as experienced as Fay Sampson. Today she shares about her new adventure.Stories from the Landscape, Fay Sampson in Ireland
By Fay Sampson ~ October 5, 2016
I love walking through an evocative landscape and finding the stories that belong to it.Fay Sampson Mines Riches from Family Research
By Fay Sampson ~ May 16, 2016
It began when my young grandson came home from school saying that his homework was to find out what he could about his family roots. Our son rang us to see if we could help. From then on, both he and I were smitten with the family history bug. It appeals to me for all sorts of reasons..jpg)
Fay Sampson Celebrates a Golden Anniversary
By Fay Sampson ~ December 14, 2015
I almost overlooked it. When the hardback of my latest crime thriller,A Year of Prehistory
By Fay Sampson ~ October 25, 2015
I’m having a great year for prehistory. I celebrated my 80th birthday at the spine-tingling stone circle of Avebury (Ways with Words at Dartington Hall
By Fay Sampson ~ August 3, 2015
We have just enjoyed our annual literary feast: the nine days Ways with Words festival at Dartington Hall. This is held in the marvellous setting of the 14Fay Sampson Discovers Recurring Themes in Her Work
By Fay Sampson ~ April 20, 2015
t’s strange how some ideas haunt you, turning up repeatedly in your work, even when you don’t consciously will it.Richard III Inspires Reflection on Crime Novels
By Fay Sampson ~ March 23, 2015
I have just been watching the opening stages in the reburial of the bones of Richard III, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. He was the last of the Plantaganet kings and the last English king to die in battle.Iona, Fay Sampson's "Most Inspirational" Place
By Fay Sampson ~ September 2, 2014
This summer we have been to one of my most inspirational places – Iona. This is a small off the west coast of ScotlandFay Sampson Reflects on a Journey Through Turkey: A Visit to Santa Claus's Tomb
By Fay Sampson ~ April 12, 2014
I have made no secret of the fact that places are very important to me. They were the inspiration for my very first books, and still inspire my stories.Stories from the Ruins. Behind the Latest Suzie Fewings Mystery
By Fay Sampson ~ January 16, 2014
Musings on Social Media
By Fay Sampson ~ November 6, 2013
Welcome back, Fay Sampson, with some thoughts on a topic that is never far from a writer's mind— to what extent should we let the internet invade our lives? And how can we possibly find time to write if we do all the social media we are told we should do?Fay Sampson Visits The Dordogne
By Fay Sampson ~ November 19, 2012
I've written before about the joy of research trips: Pennant Melangell, Burnley and Lindisfarne recently. And I'm planning another, rather closer to home, to evocative Cornish churches and pilgrimage sites which I may use in my next Aidan Mystery. More of that later.Researching Lindisfarne
By Fay Sampson ~ August 30, 2012
Half the fun of writing novels is the research. But when is the best time to do it? If it's an historical novel, then it's really important to steep yourself in that period before setting pen to paper or opening that new document. You need not only to read what has been written about the period, but things written in that period. You want to capture something of how people thought, as well as lived.
A Visit to Pennant Melangell
By Fay Sampson ~ May 26, 2011
Researching books can take you to some wonderful places. Some years
ago, I was at a course on Celtic history and beliefs in North Wales. One of our field trips took us to a medieval pilgrimage site at the end of the road in the Berwyn Mountains.
That All-important James Bond Opening
By Fay Sampson ~ March 14, 2011
James Bond hangs from the undercarriage of a helicopter spinning dizzily thousands of feet above an active volcano. Dodging hot lava spewing at him from below and bullets fired from above, he scrambles into the cabin, wrestles with the villain as the chopper, now pilotless, spirals toward the abyss. At the last minute Bond defeats the enemy and rights the 'copter. All without wrinkling his French cuffs.
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