Tag Archives: Sandra Unerman

Strawberries in the Snow – a short story by Sandra Unerman

Posted on 26 January 2021 by Jacey Bedford

First published in Three Drops from the Cauldron, December 2016.All rights remain with the author I’ve eaten true winter strawberries. Not the tasteless kind you can buy in a supermarket but true, wild strawberries dug from under the snow in … Continue reading →

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Folklore and Fiction by Sandra Unerman

Posted on 27 October 2020 by Jacey Bedford

I have been interested in folklore for even longer than I have been a writer. Books of fairy tales and legends were among my favourite reading as a child but I did not try to write stories of my own … Continue reading →

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Fantasy and Historical Perspective by Sandra Unerman

Posted on 14 August 2018 by Jacey Bedford

‘There is nothing like looking if you want to find something…’ but what you find is not always quite the something you were after. So says the narrator of The Hobbit when the dwarves go looking for shelter from a … Continue reading →

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Research for Genre Fiction: by Sandra Unerman

Posted on 19 December 2017 by Jacey Bedford

If you write fantasy or science fiction, what kind of research do you need to do and why? I write historical fantasy, where the story is set in the cracks between what we know of the past. Some of my … Continue reading →

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Unforeseen Consequences by Sandra Unerman

Posted on 20 December 2016 by Jacey Bedford

If I hadn’t been to Milford, I might never have become an MA. When I retired after thirty-four years as a Government lawyer, I wanted to work hard at my writing of fiction, as I’d not had the time or … Continue reading →

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