February 2012
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What Really Matters - One Mother's Story
Yesterday, I was at my daughter’s school. One of her teachers nicely asked about my forthcoming book. Here’s what I said: “The book is set in the 14th century - the Middle Ages - it’s about a former nun who has lived in secret for 10 years. Then her son is killed, and she goes on a terrible journey to find out the truth about her life, and prove that her son’s life...
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“Sinful Folk is a well-paced historical mystery that kept me turning pages way...”
– Peter Heinrich, GoodReads — http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12401599-sinful-folk
Review: A Vivid Picture
All it took for me to spark my interest, was the historical note in the beginning of the book. It was hard to put this book down; I wanted to uncover the mystery behind these boys dying in a fire and why this women is pretending to be a man, hiding her identity from everyone in this medieval village. The characters in the book set out on a journey to find the truth; the path they take reveals more...
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Review of Sinful Folk: An absolute "Must Read"!
I read it without stopping as soon as I got it loaded on my Kindle! What a terrific read, and this from a person who is not a fan of historical fiction, mainly because it often has so many inaccuracies. For me, too, the measure of a compelling read is that I continue to think about it long after I have closed the book, and in this case, I have thought of it often. There were parts where I thought...
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– ― Virginia Woolf
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“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via bookmania)
“For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could...”
– Paris Review interviews Pablo Neruda, Spring 1971
“The city is peopled
with spirits, not ghosts, O my love:
Though they crowded...”
– H. D., from “Cities” (via the-final-sentence)
January 2012
11 posts
Chapter PREVIEWS (PDF, Kindle, Nook)
The novel Sinful Folk is narrated by a desperate mother who carries a hidden secret and a terrible grief. This story of a winter pilgrimage begins in terror and heartache, and ends in triumph and redemption.
Read the first 2 chapters of the novel as an e-book here:
Amazon Kindle E-book Nook E-Pub Format Adobe PDF format
Posted here for your reading pleasure is an early...
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“April comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds...”
– Sinful Folk, by Ned Hayes (forthcoming in 2012)
“I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and...”
– Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes (forthcoming in 2012)
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Interview with Ned Hayes: My Novel SINFUL FOLK
(from Dorothy Dreyer’s great writing blog — “We Do Write” )
In the meantime, let’s meet another writer. This time we’re talking to Ned Hayes. Ned has graciously allowed me to take a peek at his newest novel, and I was quite intrigued by his story.
Welcome to We Do Write, Ned. Tell us a little about yourself.
I’m interested in everything from...
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All the Words... in Sinful Folk
here’s a wordle of all the words in the novel…
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Chapter 2 - PREVIEW
Read the first 2 chapters of the novel as an e-book here: Amazon Kindle E-book Nook E-Pub Format Adobe PDF format
chapter 2
The day is almost upon us. Small houses emerge from the darkness, silhouetted by that faint blue light in the east. The burned croft is a smoking wreck, the embers steaming in the dawn.
The wind dies. The crowd slows...
Chapter 1 - PREVIEW
Read the first 2 chapters of the novel as an e-book here: Amazon Kindle E-book Nook E-Pub Format Adobe PDF format
chapter 1
In the end, I listen to the fear that keeps me awake, that resounds through the frantic beating in my breast, the dry terror in my throat, the dread that comes with the pricking of the rat’s nervous feet in the...
Historical Note
HISTORICAL NOTE
“A curious incident is brought to our attention from the year 1377. In December of that coldest year in the medieval records, the village of Duns in the northeast of England suffered a great tragedy. Five of its young boys were burned to death in a house fire near the center of the village.
As was common with many tragic events in that century, it was supposed the Jews were...
Sinful Folk - About this novel
The book’s title comes from this quote from Chaucer:
Pray for us, we sinful folk unstable
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My child is dead within these two weeks
Soon after that, he went out of this town…
With many a tear...