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Rules of the blogs: A Readers’ Blog/An Author’s Blog

There are two blogs sites on this site: one for me and one for you.

The first is for you, the reader. It is there to enable you to get in touch, leave a review or ask a question. I’ll do my very best to reply. The usual rules apply: please be brief, keep it positive, (insightful criticism always welcome though), and anything gratuitously offensive gets you removed! I’ll endeavour to do likewise.

The second is for me. I’ll post general thoughts on the endlessly challenging job of getting into print, the joys and tears, the trials and tribulations, the costs and other paraphernalia of the self-publishing route. As the The Derwent Trilogy is about half way through the researching and writing phase, I’ll let you know when I get stuck, distracted or blown off-course.

Joseph Wright Artist Painting Faces by Steve Farnsworth

Joseph Wright of Derby in 100 Observations

Artists acquire their reputations and an understanding of what kind of person they may have been in all sorts of ways. Sometimes they remain opaque, out of reach.  Joseph Wright…
Burdett's Plan of Derby 1767

Observation No1: Derby in Joe’s boyhood

Joe was born in 1734 into a small town which had changed little since the medieval period: its size and street pattern had hardly changed for hundreds of years. It…

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