I began writing to satisfy a need to tell a story. My first novel; 'Timescope' was written for teenagers, but many adult readers found the storyline and content sufficiently fascinating to assure me that I could write a full-length novel for adults too. At the same time, I was experimenting with the short story genre with equally heartening results, especially using the viewpoint of the main character to tell the story. I wondered how it would feel to write from this first-person perspective. At the same time I wanted to create a novel set in Tudor times, an era when irrevocable social and rel...