NaNoWrapUp

With three days to go, I am at within 1,500 words of the goal.  Alehouse Tales isn't finished, but everything after tomorrow is, as they say, gravy.

Here's a partial list of the topics of the chapters.  Since I plan to publish this one independently, I can reveal whatever I want ab out it.

• A Viking raid forces Leofwen of Hamwic to flee her home - a historical event, by the way.
• Leofwen tells how she runs her alehouse, how she brews her good Saxon ale and cooks for her guests.
• Stories about her regular customers, including two merry fishermen, a hunter, an old soldier who fought with King Athelstan, an Irish bard and others.
• All about the people who work at the alehouse, including the ostler and the serving wench who is still waiting for her man to come back from the war. 
• The story of a tragic fire, how the arsonist is found, tried and punished.
• A sad tale of how Leofwen's young love and his family face reprisals against Northmen.
• How charcoal, salt, leather, swords, fine jewelry, linen and wool , and many other important things are made, and how a house is built.
• Several other stories, including the marriage of King Aethelraed.

All of this taking place in the King's city, Wintonceaster, now known as Winchester, whose walls were built and streets paved by the legendary Alfred the Great about 90 years earlier.

I hope to have  this book ready for you in the spring.  I am doing one of my "yarn paintings" for the cover..

All this while I patiently wait to hear what a publisher thinks of my other book started last NaNoWriMo, working title "Beloved Pilgrim".  Stay tuned for news.

Can't wait to read one of my fascinating novels?  Then read An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Saxon England by Nan Hawthorne!