Caution – anxious author alert!
Pink roses – because they feature quite a lot in the book and the list. |
I’m on the very last steps of getting The Villa in Portofino ready to send to the publisher. In theory this should just be proof checking, but with me, it also involves a lot of fact checking – not the big research stuff, but the little details. I know this is the result of an element of OCD in my nature. It would not take ten minutes every night to convince myself that I really have turned the cooker off before I can go to bed, if I wasn’t a bit in that direction. I also know that it is not possible to get everything right – that old thing about not knowing what you don’t know – but I have to try. So – as it is on my mind at the moment – the blog today is about ten random things I’ve checked for this manuscript – because everyone likes a list, don’t they?
- The sort of reinforced work boots a gardener would wear.
- The name of the Roman goddess of Justice
- Roses that grow on the Riviera
- DIY wills
- Transatlantic voyages in the late 1960s
- Famous American authors in 1950s and 1960s
- How to construct a labyrinth
- What a symposium is
- The date that American President Richard Nixon was inaugurated
- The history of Royal Albert “American Beauty” china