Kate's Blog

In the early 1800s, it became fashionable for the privileged to leave cold and dreary England to spend winter on the sunny Mediterranean coast. At first, it was a long and difficult carriage journey, but by 1864, a railway across France made the trip simple and short. 

Public speaking is hard for many of us, but since it’s good for marketing books, read on for a few more tips to make it easier.

Gnu Ventures Publishing is excited to announce the release of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, annotated with the words and phrases from Kate’s book, Agatha Annotated: Investigating the Books of the 1920s.

The popularity of music halls was already fading by the time Agatha Christie started publishing novels, but they were still an entertainment option and Christie mentions them twice in the 1920s books. Tommy suggests relaxing at a music hall to Tuppence in “The Unbreakable Alibi” and Arthur Hastings’ love interest in Murder on the Links seems to have been a music hall performer.

My day job is with a web development company and while the coders here find AI useful, my writer colleagues are less enthused. Here’s how I’m experimenting before making a decision.