tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post3284120366963682737..comments2023-10-22T05:20:29.799-07:00Comments on TRIFOLIUM BOOKS UK: LOVE IS NEVER LOST, NEVER WASTED, NEVER DIESConnie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-34200409119377489622014-06-27T11:22:42.016-07:002014-06-27T11:22:42.016-07:00Thank you on behalf of Kathleen for your kind comm...Thank you on behalf of Kathleen for your kind comments Claire. It was a timely reminder that I need to get back to my 'proper job' of editing and re-publishing Kathleen's Northern Kingdoms Trilogy- of which 'Ghost in the Sunlight' is of course the third. (I've been very much involved with my local theatre- something I'm passionate about) and I'm now starting to pick up the threads again. I shall look forward to reading your books now Claire! Connie Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-62737645563338032982014-06-26T11:23:01.651-07:002014-06-26T11:23:01.651-07:00I was lucky enough to find a copy of "Ghost i...I was lucky enough to find a copy of "Ghost in the Sunlight" lying out on my street, for passersby to take, and am reading now with immense enjoyment and admiration for her scholarship, seamlessly woven into both story and characters. So sorry to hear of Kathleen Herbert's decline, but I am determined to buy and read her other books. As a writer of historical fiction, I was touched by her wise advice to Helen Hollick - just to go home and write her book - advice I'm trying to follow myself as I tackle my third novel... Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13086556090922076051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-52005279953288455022013-07-01T08:49:20.871-07:002013-07-01T08:49:20.871-07:00I am close to tears reading this Connie - for I am...I am close to tears reading this Connie - for I am one of those people that dear Kathleen helped. Way before I had even started dreaming of actually being published Kathleen told me to go away and get my novel written.<br />We met at an Arthurian lecture-day that was somewhere or other (I think, probably, London, but I honestly can't remember, it must have been back in the early 80's) I sat next to this lovely lady who smiled and said hello and made me giggle when she murmured various corrections out the corner of her mouth to me when the lecturer made a few errors. In the break we got talking and I confessed that I wanted t write an Arthurian novel. She berated me, and told me to go home and write it. She told me that it might never get published, but it certainly wouldn't if I didn't write it. <br />Several other authors have helped my up the ladder since then - Sharon Penman for one, Elizabeth Chadwick, another, but it was dear Kathleen who gave me the confidence - and the boot up the backside - to actually get started. <br /><br />I am sad to hear her physical and mental health is declining, but so delighted that her laughter, her knowledge and her huge love of the written word are going to live on because of your fine care of her books Connie. Thank you, for myself and for all readers who love well-written, fabulous historical fiction. And who remember Kathleen with such fondness.Helen Hollickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292983846350273039noreply@blogger.com