The art of saucy postcards I was on holiday earlier this month to a proper old-school seaside town. The arcades and the funfair were shut, obviously, in these Covid times but I still wanted to do something a bit seaside-y. I went for a paddle in the sea, I bought my daughter a stick of…
Tag: History
Book Review – Stolen Moments by Maren Smith
Five Stars! Stolen Moments is a fantastically good book. It also, oddly, the first book I’ve read of Maren Smith’s where I kind of wished there was less spanking in it. Not because the spanking in this book isn’t amazing. It is. The hero, Draven Gray, is a satisfying hunk of brawn, intelligence and…
Book Review – Summer Storm by Marie Hall
Marshal Storm. Firm but fair. Five Stars! Marie Hall’s beautifully written Western is a delight to read. I loved it. Protagonists Marshal Chase Storm and Summer Rain are both intelligent, passionate, honourable and incredibly stubborn individuals. So naturally they butt heads for quite a lot of this book. Given that barely a chapter in…
Millie and the Mill Owner: A Short Story
Here’s a short story for you to enjoy while I get round to finishing some of my proper-length books.It is available as a free PDF here so that you can download it onto your kindle, kobo, phone, tea-kettle or similar. Enjoy! Millie and the Mill Owner by Etta Stark It was just before half past…
Domestic Service
This is my ‘D’ post for the Spanking A-Z Blog Challenge. “What’s that?” you ask. Check out my page here for more information and a list of all the wonderful bloggers taking part. Violet Plover, the heroine of my first book His Lordship’s Apprentice, is a scullery maid at the home of our hero, Lord…
Happy Birthday Emmeline Pankhurst!
I love Google Doodles. There you are just getting on with your day deciding to google ‘Node.js libraries’ or ‘1950s wizard spanking’ or whatever (depending where you are at the time) and Google furnishes you with a cool little gift that didn’t even ask for. The doodles have all been a bit football-obsessed lately (but…
A is for Authenticity
This post is part of the Spanking A-Z Blog Challenge. What’s that I hear you ask? Check out my page here for more information. I write historical fiction. So far everything I have written or am in the process of writing has been set during the reign of Queen Victoria. It’s a period of history…