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"We got more rabbit than Sainsbury's" - well, writers, innit. The Chinese Year of the Rabbit (兔年 tùnián) Celebrated this new year throughout the Far East, we enter the Year of the Rabbit. This is a year of the black rabbit. Black represents the element of water in Chinese astrology. The...

Hello everyone. My name is Eifion (A Welsh name pronounced; Aevion). I've just finished writing my first historic novel, set in Late Pre-Roman Iron Age Britain, leading up to and including Julius Caesar's 1st foray to these islands in 55 BC. I look forward to sharing the obsession that is...

My W.I.P is set in 16th Century Tudor England and I find myself not only seeking out appropriate language for my characters but also writing with words that have existed since the 1500s. It feels right to do so, but I wonder if I am making more work for myself, or perhaps even dating the tale...