Category Archives: Ancient Egyptian history

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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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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INTRODUCING ‘TIME-SENSITIVE FICTION’

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Veronica Knox

MIDDLE-GRADE TIME SLIP ADVENTURES WRITTEN IN LITERARY PROSE FOR THE ADULT READER – an adapted genre from author V Knox If time stands still anywhere, it’s at Bede. If ghosts haunt anywhere it’s in Bede Hall Bede Hall hovers in … Continue reading →

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‘AMUSE BOUCHE’ … WORDS TO AMUSE THE MOUTH

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

LISA IS A BIG GIRL… She can speak for herself! “My name, Lisabetta Buti was an affront to my existence. I was Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved kid-sister, his assistant and apprentice, and the mother he was denied. We were born … Continue reading →

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‘ET OB HOC AD’… AFTER, BEFORE, AND BECAUSE OF IT

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Veronica Knox

When one door closes, another door opens And so, as ‘TOMORROW AGAIN’ closes ‘the Bede trilogy’ – a time-slip adventure for ages thirteen and up, I open up the before time: ‘AFTER, BEFORE, AND BECAUSE OF’ the trilogy in the … Continue reading →

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CATNAPPED

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

‘TOMORROW AGAIN’, book 3 of the Bede Trilogy by V Knox – a middle-grade time-slip adventure where the present day cats of Bede Village, in England, dream travel to ancient Egypt through a cat flap in Sarah Goodman’s kitchen. There … Continue reading →

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PILLOW TALK and THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE ATTIC

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Let’s talk pillows… from extremely soft to incredibly super-hard Egyptian ‘memory foam’ – as in carved from stone The alabaster pillow found in the teenager, King Tutankhamun’s, tomb (depicted in the painting, although I have shown the top half of … Continue reading →

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A STORY IN A GRAIN OF SAND

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Every story begins with the grain of a premise – a first grain of sand idea, and like an oyster, a writer has to grow characters and plot and events from it into a pearl. Not just a single pearl … Continue reading →

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