Elisabeth Storrs guest speaker at SWW this month
Calling all Sydney-siders interested in reading and/or writing historical fiction: Elisabeth Storrs will be talking about Art, Inspiration and Historical Fiction: A Tuscan Odyssey at the Society of Women Writers Lunch on Wednesday 8th November at the State Library, Macquarie St, details below. Beautiful Tuscany was once the heartland of the Etruscans and the location…
EMAIL ADDRESS ALERT!
Just to let you know that I’ve been having problems with my website lately, and this has affected my contact email address: felicity@felicitypulman.com.au. If you’ve tried to reach me lately and had your email returned from that address, do please try again as hopefully the problem has now been sorted. Thanks! And grrrrr! But I’m…
The QS and the Medieval Faire at St Ives
Unfortunately my website has been down for a while so I’m a bit late telling you about the two wonderful things I did last weekend. First up was a ‘theatre in the wild’ experience walking around the Quarantine Station in Manly with a group re-enacting their ‘Convict Footprints Quarantined’ show on Saturday. Very entertaining and very…
The Plantagenets and Medieval Time
Judy King gave a fascinating talk about ‘William Marshal – England’s greatest knight’ at the Plantagenet Society meeting yesterday. Born a landless noble in 1147, William Marshal became the ‘king’s right hand’ to five English kings through his life: Henry II, the ‘Young King’ Henry, Richard I, John and Henry III. He was renowned for his…
LUNCH WITH THE STARS!
After a whirlwind few days down in Melbourne at the HNSA conference, it was such a pleasure then to visit the beautiful old St Patricks Seminary / Hogwarts Castle in Manly yesterday to celebrate books and reading with over 200 excited students and their heroic teacher/librarians. Pictured: organiser Belinda Murrell and her sister Kate Forsyth along with…
HNSA TRIUMPH!
Our HNSA conference weekend in Melbourne was absolutely fabulous! A lot of hard work went into its organisation, but it was a wonderful weekend with so many author friends to catch up with, and so many new people to meet, both writers and readers but all of them lovers of historical fiction! The conference kicked…
HOT DATE FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL FICTION!
If you love reading and/or writing historical fiction, there’s still time to book your ticket for the upcoming Historical Novels Society of Australasia conference at Swinburne University in Melbourne next weekend, from Friday night to Sunday 8-10th September. You’ll find out all you ever wanted to know about researching and writing great historical fiction from such luminaries…
Ghosts – and ghastly goings on
This week I’ve had fun talking to a couple more schools, entertaining Ermington Primary School students with stories based on my novels under the title ‘Dragons, Penguins, Magic and Mischief’. The students were great, so eager to ask and answer questions and showing great imagination and creativity, especially when I produced my bag of magical…