To England’s Medieval Festival with books and a tent and readings to do in the Knights’ Tavern. 27th to 28th August should be plenty of time to carry out some essential research into pedigree Geese and the development of the quill. www.EnglandsMedievalFestival.com,

My agent tells me to get out more… so something called a roadshow will be at England’s Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux castle 27th – 29th August. http://www.englandsmedievalfestival.com/ The agent even suggested Brother Hermitage could make an appearance. I pointed out he’s been dead for nearly a thousand years but was told I was only being difficult…

I leave the scriptorium door open for five minutes and another book gets out. Hermitage, Wat and Some Nuns has only been gone for two days and it’s already bothered over 300 people with its nonsense. I am told to say that other medieval investigative monks in Shrewsbury are available, but apparently they aren’t half as funny.

But I must on with fresh manuscript. Brother Hermitage and the Case of the Clerical Cadaver looks absolutely fascinating. (Although I have no idea where my agent gets these awful titles…)

The tale of Brother Hermitage, Wat and Some Nuns is about to be exposed to an unsuspecting world. The illumination for the front cover is complete and now the annoying errors of the quill are being removed – despite all the effort it took to put them in.
Send Hermitage to Shrewsbury seems prescient in many ways – or so I’m told. Apparently the place was awash with investigative monks only a few years later…

A treatise on why women enjoy funny books by someone passing himself off as Howard of Warwick. He does look familiar but I shall be consulting my lawyer…
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/howard-matthews-hermitage-wat-and-some-druids-941215.html