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Written by Candace Robb on 2025-01-15 at 17:32

So...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/15/iron-age-men-left-home-join-wives-families-dna-study-reveals

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Written by Candace Robb on 2025-01-14 at 21:11

Some thoughts about the value of fiction in troubled times.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2025-01-01 at 20:40

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 1 What are your writing goals for 2025?

Write a lot.

Enjoy it.

Be fearless.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2025-01-01 at 20:30

Be comfortable in your skin,

no apologies.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-12-25 at 18:07

[#]WordWeavers 25. Does your MC believe in an afterlife?

This is York, Yorkshire in 1377--you bet he does.

Wishing you all a blessed holiday!

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-12-25 at 01:00

My holiday blog post with news and reviews!

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-12-16 at 21:37

My thanks to Nancy Pearl for recommending this book to me. How did I miss it in 2002?!

The Translator by John Crowley: An intelligent/intellectual love story; a meditation on poetry & the souls of nations, who is the translator/what does it mean to translate poetry; what the Cuban Missile Crisis revealed about authoritarianism/Russia/USA. Highly recommend!

Nice review here: https://www.salon.com/2002/03/21/crowley_2/

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-12-01 at 23:20

Celebrating the publication of A Snake in the Barley, and celebrating friends and community.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-11-10 at 20:33

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-11-05 at 22:57

A cute cat break. The Maggie is resting after chasing down a legion of falling leaves. #CatsOfMastodon

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-09-23 at 19:51

[#]WordWeavers Sep 23: Do you play around with time and space either in your world or as a storytelling device (i.e. flashbacks)?

I do use flashbacks, people's memories of key moments that inform the present circumstance. Usually emotionally charged memories, so they're not just dry recountings of the past, but what a moment meant to the character, why it's key in the present.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-09-23 at 17:01

[#]WritersCoffeeCLub Day 23: Ursula K LeGuin said that Earthsea began when she drew a map. What's your starting point?

It varies for me, & I enjoy that. Often it's the historical moment I've reached in the series, but the current wip grew from a title. Sometimes a character intrigues me. Or a place. My novel of Joan of Kent, A Triple Knot, grew from the fact that she chose to be buried next to her first husband, not the Black Prince.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-09-14 at 16:14

The Maggie Diaries.

Happy #Caturday I conquered the tall old fence on an outing today. I am awesome.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-09-08 at 00:22

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 7. What genre are you least likely to write? Why?

Romance. I have romance in my mysteries, and the fantasy I'm working on, but every time I've dabbled in the romance genre I wind up writing farce. Every time.

Bad farce.

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-08-25 at 18:34

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-08-22 at 16:12

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Aug 22: Hollywood wants to turn one of your stories into an animation/anime. How do you feel about this?

I would be excited!

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Written by Candace Robb on 2024-08-07 at 18:36

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 07 Aug: In your writing, what's the best thing you've done (or might do) to a reader's state of mind?

From readers: The friend who told me that Lucie Wilton's Aunt Philippa's confusion in her later years (in the Owen Archer mysteries) helped him & his wife deal with her mother's dementia and frailty. The readers who have reread all in the series during difficult times, because the characters have become their beloved friends. I don't intend this, but wow.

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