Category Archives: Bede Hall

THE LAND BEFORE SNOW

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Veronica Knox

IF TIME STANDS STILL ANYWHERE, IT’S AT BEDE. IF GHOSTS HAUNT ANYWHERE, IT’S IN BEDE HALL. But ghosts are nothing compared to the challenges haunting a curmudgeonly building with a desire for eternal life. BEDE HALL WAS ALIVE BUT EVEN … Continue reading →

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THE POWER OF SNOW

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Veronica Knox

There are three generations of Stratford-Smyths ‘living’ in Bede Hall. THE FOURTH IS THE GHOST OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHICH MAKES THEM FOUR GENERATIONS SPANNING FOUR DIMENSIONS. Bede Hall is old. The word ageless barely covers it, and the word … Continue reading →

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LISTENING TO SNOW

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Veronica Knox

‘Snow Behind the Door’– the memoir of a child ghost with amnesia (book four of my ‘Bede Series’) has progressed to the first short list for the 2023 GERTRUDE WARNER AWARD for middle-grade fiction. My Bede series was meant to … Continue reading →

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READ BEDE! … IF…

Posted on June 6, 2022 by Veronica Knox

IF the title ‘PERPETUAL CHILD’ resonates to a natural affinity for magical realism within you. It helps to be middle aged to read the Bede Series in the true spirit it was written… namely in the guise of a middle-grade … Continue reading →

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HAPPY IN THE MIDDLE

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Veronica Knox

Being middle-aged or much older means we’re honorary lifetime members of the ‘middle-grade’ genre that filmmakers and authors have created especially for us. Indulge. It’s amazing. There’s no such thing as a second childhood if you never grow up! It’s … Continue reading →

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100 NAMES FOR SNOW

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Veronica Knox

Excerpt from ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’, the prequel to the ‘Bede Trilogy’, in Snow’s words: [The first beginning I remember was arriving at Bede Hall with my father on a bitterly cold, snowy English day in August of the year … Continue reading →

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FROSTY MEMORIES OF SNOW

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Preview excerpt from ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’ – the prequel to ‘the Bede Series’ [Before Kit and Ani broke into the decaying ruins of Bede Hall, they marveled at the icebound blue door encased in a thick blanket of frost. … Continue reading →

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THE ‘SENDING’

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Veronica Knox

The cat flap in Sara Goodman’s kitchen glowed green and began to rock gently, in time to the clock on the wall ticking the last few seconds to midnight. The flap swung more urgently until it froze, fully open, wide … Continue reading →

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THREE TIMES THE CHARM

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Veronica Knox

The Bede Trilogy spans 8 years, following a pair of telepathic twins from preteen to official adulthood. Kit and his sister Bash, at odds over logic and the supernatural, fight increasing feelings of sibling rivalry when faced with a challenge … Continue reading →

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FROM BACK TO FRONT and INTO THE MIDDLE AGAIN

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Veronica Knox

‘TOMORROW AGAIN’ book three of the Bede Series middle-grade time-slip trilogy is complete, summarized here in its defining elements. BACK BLURB: My grandmother’s best friend was the ghost of my daughter whom she met sixty years before I was born. … Continue reading →

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