Dear Vasanistas, Let me begin by wishing you all a very happy, healthy, and humorous 2018! 2017 was a strong year for the Vasa and Ypres series. A Mayfair Conundrum was published in paperback. Indeed, it has (pleasantly) surpassed the five copies sold, as enumerated by Ypres in Chapter IV of Park Avenue or Bust!… Continue reading Into 2018
Dear Vasanistas! You may have been wondering what has been going on for the past few weeks of silence, eagerly awaiting to hear what will happen next to Vasa, Ypres, Cousin Andrew, and Madison. The answer is that I have been hard a work on a (pleasant) surprise. Vasa and Ypres’s first full-length adventure, Vasa… Continue reading Now in Paperback – Vasa and Ypres: A Mayfair Conundrum
To read, to laugh – to laugh perchance to guffaw. Nothing says Vasa and Ypres like a bit of plagiarized Shakespeare. Good news for all my readers, or Vasanistas. The world needs more laughter. It has come to my attention that some of you do indeed enjoy reading Vasa and Ypres. Apparently, some of you… Continue reading To Read, to Laugh – To Laugh, Perchance to Guffaw
Vasa and Ypres started as a challenge. A challenge to write a novel. A challenge to publish a fictional serial on a blog before it became an ebook. Most of all, it was a challenge to make a world of British humour come alive. For that, I found inspiration in the comic genius of P.G.… Continue reading Afterword – Vasa and Ypres: A Mayfair Conundrum
A week had passed since the pork pie solution had been dismissed. It was a brilliant solution. One of the finest products of the Vasa mind. That Uncle Edward failed to recognise this was madness. His unilateral pork disarmament proved the final blow to the idea of the decade. Those pork pies were my Newton’s… Continue reading Chapter XIV – Ypres’s Conundrum Conclusion
Silence fell upon the scene. It was the kind of silence that falls after a particularly bloody battle. The kind of battle that festoons wars of succession. Wars of succession where a queen tries to claim a throne while male relatives run towards the armoury. Powdered wings and marshal’s baton at the ready, glamorous mistresses… Continue reading Chapter XIII – Vanessa Saves the Day
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