
Rosetta is a time-travel romance writer who lives in a small market town in rural North Yorkshire, a vixen’s eerie shriek in the night away from crumbling abbey ruins, windswept heather moorland and tiny, higgledy-piggledy villages clinging to moonlit smugglers’ cliffs.
As a girl, she wandered through Whitby in Mina Murray’s shoes (Dracula, by Bram Stoker) and sat on Hadrian’s Wall dreaming of Adam, like ‘Annabel Winslow’ (The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart).
In her student days, when she wasn’t transcribing medieval manuscripts in Durham Cathedral Library, or reading Icelandic poetry by Elvet Riverside – she was occasionally to be found ‘six feet under’, archaeological trowel in hand, recording and removing the occupants of an Anglo-Saxon graveyard prior to its conversion into a shopping centre.
Now somewhat older, though not necessarily wiser, she is married with two grown-up sons, and a husband who has become a master at the art of shoring up sagging bookcases.
Her time-travel romance short story, ‘Shifting Sands’, is published in the EVERLAST anthology by Dragon Soul Press. It’s set on the North Yorkshire coast in the eighteenth century, the heyday of smuggling.
Her 100 word drabbles ‘The Princess and the Kraken’ and ‘Love is Blind’ in the ‘At First Glance – Destined’ anthology, and ‘Love Burns’ and ‘Dying to Love’ in the ‘Out of Time – Destined’ anthology will be published soon by Dark Rose Press.
‘A Whisper of Snow’ is the working title for Rosetta’s current novel, a Gothic romance set partly in Whitby, UK and partly in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania.
She is also hard at work revising and editing ‘The Gondolier’s Song’, a time-slip romance set in Venice, the city of love.
Hi Rosetta,
I thought nothing could top your opening paragraph here – and then I read the words ‘Mary Stewart’! Wonderful.
Your blog looks amazing and I’m looking forward to your posts.
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Hi Allison,
Thanks so much for your encouraging words. It’s lovely to hear such enthusiasm from a fellow blogger, especially one who is such a fan of and authority on Mary Stewart’s books!
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One of my favourite books is called “The Artist’s Way” (Julia Cameron). It talks about the need to fill your artist’s well to be creative. By the sounds of your experiences and proximity to historical landmarks and dreamlike landscapes, I imagine your well is filled to overflowing! Love your writing style!
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Ooh, that’s not a book I’ve encountered. I’ll look out for it!
Thank you for such a lovely comment, Heather. I greatly appreciate it. 🙂
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Hi Rosetta! I didn’t know you were on WordPress too :-). Thanks for liking my posts. I’m looking forward to liking yours ^_^.
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Thanks! Looking forward to reading more of yours too. 🙂🐢
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