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- About Me:
- Dad a carpenter and all round nice bloke, mother a nurse in
the 1930s who discovered at age 62 she was a Naive artist. Two younger
brothers, one younger sister and we all get on well. Ordinary childhood
of the 1940s and 50s, i.e., ran around playing games, walked everywhere,
listened to the radio. Out of the ordinary, was a voracious reader from
early years. Finished school at Grade 10 level, age 14yrs and 10mths.
and started work in an office the next week. Accidentally educated
myself by means of wide reading, interest in history and a retentive
memory. Married Arthur when I was eighteen. He's very good at the
practical skills, i.e. carpentry, joinery, restoring & repairing cars.
We have four kids; three sons and a daughter, all married, and we're
very proud of all of them, less that they're achievers than that they
all stand on their own two feet.
There are thirteen grandkids, seven girls and six boys, and eldest
granddaughter and her partner are parents of three great-grandkids. This
granddaughter has inherited my mum's artistic talent, is trying to
create a career illustrating and writing children's books while she's an
at-home mum.
I've been writing since age 11, won a short-story contest at 15,
took 30 years off with the occasional scribble and magazine article
squeezed in. First book pubbed in 2002, second in 2007, lots more in the
pipeline if I can just find the energy.
- Published Novels
- Contemporary romance The Incredible Miss Brown
published by Rocky River Romance (Australia) in 2002. Historical romance
The Pirate And The Puritan as an e-book in Sept. 2007, available in
print January 2008.
Blueprint For Love is contemporary by Monya Clayton Oct. 2009, The Wild Rose Press, now available in print.
- Favourite Books
- The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Bugles And A Tiger
(non-fiction)by John Masters
Nightrunners of
Bengal (fiction) by John Masters
any of Georgette Heyers 18th century and Regency romances
anything by Mary Stewart several of Catherine Gaskin's
M.M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions, Shadow Of The Moon & Trade
Wind.
anything by Winston Graham (notably Poldark series)
anything by C.S. Forester, (notably Hornblower series, Brown On
Resolution {W.W.1} and The Gun {Napoleonic Wars)
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman" series.
Non-fiction: Joan Of Arc, Self-Portrait compiled by Willard Trask
Non-fiction humour: I'll Trade You An Elk by Charles A. Goodrum
(pre W.W.II); and Fillets of Place by Gerald Durrell.
There's also a couple of authors from M&B Masquerade
I like. One is Dinah Dean, the other I can't recall either the name of
the writer OR the book and shall have to dig them out.
27th Mar. 09 - It was Julia Herbert "The Fortune Hunter"!
The Pirate and the Puritan
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My name - answer to Cara
Cara, I explained my weird first name but I do believe I posted it in the wrong place. I'm technologically challenged! Did you receive it or would you like me to write a new post about it?
Happy writing,
Monya
Happy writing,
Monya
Posted on January 25, 2008 at 12:22am —
I have a review, but...
When The Pirate And The Puritan was released as an e-book, I sent it to several review sites and the first one to return a post was Long And Short Reviews. The review was by 'Snapdragon' and awarded the novel 4 and a half books out of five. It was a very good and positive piece and I do appreciate it, however I had an uneasy feeling, which may simply be due to the wording used, that the reviewer had read only the first chapter. Nevertheless, if anyone would like to see it, here is the link: http… Continue
Posted on January 25, 2008 at 12:17am — 4 Comments
Hello
- It must be my dimwit week. I forgot to add in my profile that The Pirate And the Puritan (I write the historicals as Mary Clayton, by the way) is published by The Wild Rose Press. And, sigh, am going to have to get Anne to upload the cover photo for me. I hope you're all more practical than I am. I can't really plead that today is my 67th birthday. Older folk than I still have all their marbles!
Posted on January 23, 2008 at 8:00am —
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Hope everyone is writing/reading/enjoying life.
Thanks for friending me. I love pirates too! My story PLEASURING THE PIRATE will be an August 2008 Leisure Book. Please visit http://www.emilybryan.com to read an excerpt!
Enjoy!
Many thanks, your comment did come through okay and believe me, you are not the only one who is technologically challenged. I have a love/hate relationship with my computer in the way that I do with my own name. I used to hate being different - there were five Susans in one of my classes at school and like most kids I simply wanted to fit in. Now though I'm very happy with my somewhat different name. The story about your naming was not only interesting but useful. I'm always trying to think of 'real' backgrounds for my characters, and how someone got their name can help to define them so thanks again.
Cara
And good heavens, no family commitments, there's just my husband and I at home these days. The kids and grandkids visit, phone and mostly email.
Thanks again, looking forward to more chats.
Monya
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