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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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AN UNEXPECTED TWIST

By Fay Sampson ~ November 9, 2018

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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An Inspired Fay Sampson Muses on Inspiration

By Fay Sampson ~ February 10, 2016

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Fay Sampson Celebrates a Golden Anniversary

By Fay Sampson ~ December 14, 2015

 I almost overlooked it. When the hardback of my latest crime thriller,

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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 (

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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 14

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Fay 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.

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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.

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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 Scotland

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Fay 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.

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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?  

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Fay Sampson Reports from The London Book Fair

By Fay Sampson ~ April 17, 2013

 

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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.

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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.

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Father Unknown now an Ebook

By Fay Sampson ~ March 12, 2012

 

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OVER-ENTHUSIASM

By Fay Sampson ~ January 31, 2012

 

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Mills and Mountains

By Fay Sampson ~ September 16, 2011

 

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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.

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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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Those in Peril

By Fay Sampson ~ July 6, 2010

 

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