It is late and I don’t have time to finish my whole day’s post but I had to say I sat beside Alison weir tonight at dinner. I got to ask her the whole baby in the fire story (a few of you will know exactly what I am talking about) and if she prefers fiction to nonfiction. Of course the answer wasn’t simple and I am not sure I really know but she does enjoy using all her research in the fiction setting. She actually said you really had to know the character as well for fiction as you do for nonfiction. I would have thought I would be nervous and wouldn’t be able to have a real conversation but she was very gracious and easy to talk to. Not as outgoing as some of the other authors who I also talked to but more on that in the morning.

Hever castle is beautiful and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.