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02 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Stories, Theatre

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Award of Excellence, Biblioteca Teresiana, Internationa Bloggers Association, Mantua, staged reading, Virgil's Will

ibabwA quick, off-schedule post to let you know that Scribblings received the International Bloggers Association’s Award of Excellence for writing and design. You can see the badge down left, and I’ll say that I’m more than a little proud of it.

Also, the dramatized reading of Virgil’s Will/Of Men and Poets in the Biblioteca Teresiana – Mantua’s magnificent 18th Century library – went like a charm. Continue reading →

Not Quite a Ghost Story

04 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by la Clarina in History, Stories

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Bannockburn, Clan Urquhart, George Garrett, ghosts, Mantua, novels, Sir Thomas Urquhart, the Admirable Crichton

Sir ThomasOnce upon a time, I received a strange call from a lady with a German accent, who desired to know if she could speak with the author of Lo Specchio Convesso – that is to say, The Convex Mirror, my first published novel. On being told that not only she could, but she was doing it already – the lady introduced herself as a researcher for the Clan Urquhart.

“The descendants of Sir Thomas?” asked I, entirely astounded. Because, you see, Sir Thomas was an adventurer and scholar in Seventeenth Century Scotland and, incidentally, a character in my novel… Continue reading →

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