Jules

Brainstorming here. Like Squidge, I love your working title. Limelight does nothing for me. Sorry.

Maybe turn things around:

The Improbable Life of an Ulster Storyteller – a Lyttle blarney goes a long way.

Or

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me tell you a Lyttle story.

Or

Hold The Front Page – the improbable life of an Ulster storyteller

First off, I prefer your original working title – Limelight doesn’t say much to me, but the play on words makes me wonder who Lyttle was, and what sort of ‘long way’ was it? Journey? Promotion? Makes it sound quite comedic, too. It would certainly attract interest, regardless of whether anyone knows of your ancestor or not.

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Wow! Saw John’s news but didn’t realise Mad was in the longlist too! Flippin’ well done to both of you xx

What lovely news. Congratulations both of you.

Oh wow, BOTH of you? That is just brilliant, I’m so pleased to hear it! A big achievement right there. Congratulations! xx

Here, here. Well done chaps!!!

Thank you, Jane!

Many thanks Jane and Thea! If anyone who has read it could consider leaving a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads, that would be wonderful. Thanks for your review Squidge, delighted you liked it

Congratulations, Jules your book looks fab – I’m looking forward to starting the series! Also, really enjoyed reading about your research, especially re the horses. It made me wonder whether you’d written a short story for the winter challenge that featured a talking horse, but maybe my imagination is running away with me…

Well done, Denizens, what a great concept, am looking forward to reading all the stories.

Congratulations on the book deal and for the new book coming out! I read A Black Matter for the King on the ferry back from Caen last week and enjoyed it very much!

And the armour would have gone rusty.

I believe I once read that Henry VIII, in his youth, could reputedly vault into the saddle over the horse’s hindquarters while wearing full armour…

I wonder if there was a bit of modern extrapolation going on with the notion of destriers being really huge, based on the misconception of the weight of armour? I admit I thought they were vast until I looked into it. If it was thought that armoured knights needed to be winched onto their horses, it would need to be a seriously hefty horse

Well done, Jules and thanks for the horse breed check list, correcting my belief that a destrier was a sort of fast carthorse. I’m a big fan of Dorothy Dunnett so this will be added to my list.

Horses becoming fully fledged (ha) characters is only right and proper. They make more interesting friends/sidekicks/warriors/vindictive bastards than most actual people. 🙂