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Rebecca Bryn

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    • The Chainmaker’s Wife
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    • History we shouldn’t forget.
    • The white slaves of England
    • The inequalities that inspired a revolution. International Women’s Day 2020
    • People with beards are simply people without beards, with beards…
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    • ‘Until the air we breathe is more valuable than the pound in our pockets…’
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    • FOR THEIR COUNTRY’S GOOD SERIES Saying goodbye
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    • It helps if you don’t know what you can’t do!
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    • How long is a piece of string? Bad reviews – 3
    • Unpleasant and juvenile? Bad reviews -2
    • She should be ashamed of herself! -Bad reviews 1
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    • Loose-knickered, Murdering Thieves!
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    • We are more than just Starstuff…
    • Lock up your wife and beat her – women’s rights back in the day
    • Giving the Women of Auschwitz a Voice – ‘The Power of Words’.
    • These Waves, This Sand, These Cliffs, This Land.
    • The Gods are Angry and Here be Dragons.
    • Dudes with Little Dicks
    • What Oprah said the first time we met, the big Irish head on me and why I owe her five dollars…
    • ‘It is easy for a woman to forget that no-one owns her.’
    • THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
    • Wishing I’d listened more to my elders. Remembrance.
    • Leaving those you’ve come to love.
    • Stark Naked in Tesco
    • Entropy, gravity, perpetual motion, and patterns in the sand.
    • Faux-Ho Chic in the chipper…
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    • Henry VII, King of England
    • Stark Naked in Tesco
    • Zactly de same…
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    • Sizzling Sunset — Sarah Stuart – Romantic Suspense
    • My Guest Today is Harmony Kent
    • The Dandelion Clock
    • Authors Give Back – Rhonda Hopkins asks Rebecca Bryn about her chosen charities
    • Colleen’s 2019 #Book #Reviews – “The Silence of the Stones,” by Author, Rebecca Bryn, @RebeccaBryn1
    • Spectral State by Senan Gil Senan
    • Interview with nature author Susan J. Tweit
    • Spectral State
    • The Lord of the Rings meets Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever?
    • A Date With . . . Chris Robertson
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    • MEET TOM JOHNSON
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    • A Date With . . . Paul Ian Cross
    • Another wonderful read by Lesley Hayes
    • Don’t Spare the Horses
    • Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – New Book on the Shelves – #WWI drama – The Dandelion Clock by Rebecca Bryn.
    • Smorgasbord Blogger Daily – Wednesday 15th August 2018 – Mary Smith, Olga Nunez Miret and Rebecca Bryn.
    • Reviews for The Dandelion Clock!
    • Author Interview with Rebecca Bryn
    • The Girl he Left Behind – another wonderful read from Lesley Hayes
    • Historical Fiction Cover Winner July 2018
    • Author Give Back with Rhonda Hopkins
    • A plea to authors – please speak out about piracy
    • A Date With . . . Ceri Bladen
    • AUTHOR MAGICALLY WEAVES THE HORRORS OF WAR AND THE JOY OF LOVE TO CREATE A HEART-TOUCHING STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH
    • Brutal Tale – a five-star review.
    • MEET MELANIE P SMITH
    • A Date With . . . Val Tobin
    • Review of Amie, Cut For Life – Lucinda E Clarke
    • Review of The Silence of the Stones
    • Three Against The World – Book Review
    • A Date With . . . Penny Luker
    • Book Review – The Salby series …
    • MEET PAUL IAN CROSS – AUTHOR.
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    • Darkly Wood II – Max Power
    • Why you should read Sarah Stuart’s Dangerous Liaisons: The Backstreet Boy and the Royal Heiress
    • FREE Therapy and an enthralling read.
    • Recommended read for history lovers – ‘A Purgatory of Misery’
    • Review of On Common Ground – Book 3 of ‘For Their Country’s Good’.
    • Review of THE TURING TEST – Andy Updegrove
    • Book Review – Enablers Anonymous by Nico Laeser
    • THE DROWNED PHOENICIAN SAILOR
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    • Two fab authors in conversation.
    • Frank Parker – word weaver.
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    • Long-tailed tits on teasels
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    • Stardust by Rebecca Bryn
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    • Half a dozen large eggs, please.
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When is a cliche not a cliche?

February 5, 2022

As writers, we are encouraged not to use cliches, but these phrases started out somewhere in the dim and distant past and had a real meaning, so as a writer of historical fiction, I ask myself ‘was it a cliche at the time about which I am writing?’, and perhaps more importantly, will the reader … More When is a cliche not a cliche?

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A woman of two halves.

June 12, 2019

Well, actually, more than two halves if that makes any sense, but I’m talking about the artistic me, and the fact that I’m split between my two loves, writing and painting. Having completed my latest work of historical fiction, Kindred and Affinity, a romance – I swore I’d never write romance – inspired by my … More A woman of two halves.

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Long-tailed tits on teasels

May 17, 2019

This watercolour was inspired by an early morning walk to a little patch of common ground near where I live. The teasels were silhouetted against the sky and bushes, and the twittering of long-tailed tits betrayed their presence as they flitted from bush to bush. I look out for them every spring as they move … More Long-tailed tits on teasels

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