Ask the Author: M.J. Logue
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M.J. Logue
Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman frontier. What would I do? Chat up Justin, I think, and be nice about his lamentable ears.
M.J. Logue
I'll see what I can do :-) Normally the cake-related ones come out later in the year - when the weather draws in and the apples ripen...
M.J. Logue
Cryssa Bazos's "Traitor's Knot", and Anna Belfrage's "In The Shadow Of The Storm" which I'm halfway through and loving.
M.J. Logue
Presently Thomazine and Thankful For His Deliverance Russell!
(but I would say that... being half way through book two of their adventures. Two children and a hairy dog later...)
(but I would say that... being half way through book two of their adventures. Two children and a hairy dog later...)
M.J. Logue
The second one is Command the Raven, the third is A Wilderness of Sin. Gracious, I'm glad you're enjoying them as much as I enjoy writing them!
M.J. Logue
Glad you're enjoying them, and the unfortunate answer at this minute is that you can't - it's such a little short story, it wasn't worth the trees! When I've written enough short stories there will be a collection of them out in book form though, if you can hang on that long. You're not the first person to want to read it on paper....
M.J. Logue
Most recent.... well, I happened to be in the Royal Cornwall Museum and obviously I'd intended the series to go on throughout the Civil Wars, but rather than following the major battles, to have Babbitt attach himself to Thomas Fairfax and campaign with him. So while I was in the museum I thought I'd have a poke around with what was going on in the West Country and.... well, there you have the latter half of "A Wilderness of Sin" - where it starts to get political, and the wheels start to come off the New Model Army a bit.
M.J. Logue
Right at this minute, about two thirds of the way through a full-length Babbitt novel ("A Wilderness of Sin", set around Fairfax's south-west campaign in 1645) which sounds very sensible, and is in fact a combination of revenge tragedy and black humour. Life is turning a bit to rat-poo for Colonel Rosie Babbitt, stuck in Somerset lurking at Fairfax's shoulder and getting increasingly-irritable letters from his wife. (Who's in the process of providing him with a second sprog, but he doesn't know that.) Luce Pettitt's still writing appalling poetry, and has gone very strange indeed. And something weird happened at the end of the battle of Naseby which no one wants to tell Babbitt about, but which ended with Lieutenant Russell blinded, Trooper Gray in a state of flat panic, and Captain Chedglow with the back of his head shot off.
All this before you even consider what His Shifty Majesty might be up to in a formal military capacity.
All this before you even consider what His Shifty Majesty might be up to in a formal military capacity.
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