Linda Acaster is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer, living on the Yorkshire coast on a Saxon settlement site a stone's throw from an ancient spring. On her doorstep are the locales of "Torc of Moonlight", Book One in the trilogy of novels set in university cities pressing against the North York Moors.
History has always fascinated her, especially the day-to-day lives of people who never feature in history's grand recollections. Undertaking the research necessary to breathe life into these long-ago lives regularly throws up direct, and eerie, connections to 21st century living that she exploits in her fiction.
Some of her previous print novels have been relaunched as Kindle books, including "Hostage of the Heart", exploring the role of mediaeval battle hostages and set on the English-Welsh borders on the cusp of the country's last invasion (1066), and "Beneath The Shining Mountains" (originally "A Wife For Winterman"), a story of love and misplaced honour among a First Nation people on the northern plains of America in the 1830s. Much of the insight for this latter novel came from her years as a re-enactor of the period - yes, in northern England, but you knew that the English were eccentric.
Linda's short fiction covers a variety of genres, from the expected historical and women's fiction, to horror, literary, crime, SF and fantasy. Kindle book "Contribution to Mankind and other stories of the Dark" holds five ghost/horror stories.
"A Sackful of Shorts", an anthology launched by Hornsea Writers, contains one of Linda's more literary stories, "Shared With The Light", about a jazz saxophonist coming to terms with his past.
If you wish to be kept up to date, drop by her blog http://lindaacaster.blogspot.com to read opening excerpts of all her available fiction, and www.lindaacaster.co.uk
