INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET FRAZER

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     I have a special Christmas gift for my readers, an interview with Margaret Frazer, author of two outstanding medieval mystery series set in 15th century England.  The Sister Frevisse mysteries feature a remarkable protagonist, a nun who is not at all saintly.  She does not suffer fools gladly, but she struggles constantly to subdue her pride, to adhere to the strict rules of her Order even as the tranquility of their nunnery is disrupted by the unwelcome intrusions of the real world—mayhem and murder.  Margaret’s second series showcases the talents of Joliffe, dashing player in a traveling troupe of actors and sometime spy for the powerful and dangerous Bishop of Winchester, one of the crafty Beaufort clan.  Joliffe appeared occasionally in Sister Frevisse’s books and readers found him so appealing that they urged Margaret to give Joliffe his own series.  Joliffe is a wonderful creation—clever, observant, and resourceful, with an ironic eye and a laid-back charm that I, for one, find quite irresistible.  

      In the interest of full disclosure, Margaret and I have been good friends for a number of years—as you’ll be able to tell by the tone of our exchanges.  But I was her fan before I became her friend.  She is serious about her craft, serious about her research, even more serious than me, and we all know I’m obsessive-compulsive!  The result is a form of literary time-travel. Readers never doubt for a moment that her characters are men and women of 15th century England.  And because she is realistic in her approach to her plots (a.k.a ruthless), the suspense level is ratcheted up to alarming levels.  We never know if she is going to kill off a character we really like, (And yes, Margaret, I am still holding a grudge for The Servant’s Tale.) or reveal that character to be the killer.  Her newest book is A Play of Piety.  I was delighted when I learned it was coming out in December, seeing it as my reward for finishing Lionheart.  And now, let the interview begin. 

A PLAY OF PIETY is the sixth book in your medieval mystery series featuring Joliffe the Player, a traveling actor in England in the 1400s, but you also have seventeen other medieval mysteries centered on Dame Frevisse, a Benedictine nun, set in the same time period.  Do you ever get asked, “Don’t you get tired of writing the same book over and over again?”

 

I’ve indeed been asked that, more than once.  I suppose it’s a reasonable question, given all twenty-three books are mysteries and set in the same time period and general place and, yes, I suppose I would get bored writing the same book over and over again.  So I don’t write the same book over and over again. (Subtext: Do I look like a fool?)  With Frevisse, every story is told from two viewpoints: hers and that of the title character.  Since those title characters are drawn from all aspects of medieval English society – for instance from a reeve running a small village to an independent businesswoman in London to the bastard son of a royal duke – I get to look at medieval life from wide variety of viewpoints and levels.  I can’t get bored if I have to move into the minds of people as far apart as a crowner’s very humble clerk and a high-born bishop, an outlaw and a well-off widow of the gentry.  And for me, moving into the minds of people not me is what it’s all about.

The same goes for Joliffe’s books.  They’re only told from his viewpoint, which is extremely low in society and that of an outsider for good measure.  But he’s a man with a craft he enjoys – acting – and because his company of players travel and perform in a wide variety of places, he encounters all sorts of different societal situations.  And of course for him I’ve upped the ante as the series goes on by him taking service as a spy for someone powerful in the government, which serves to take him to France and into a high noble’s household in A PLAY OF TREACHERY at a very dangerous time in the Hundred Years War.  In A PLAY OF PIETY, by wide contrast, he’s working in a medieval hospital among very ordinary people.  For me, recreating such complex but widely divergent settings and the people to inhabit them is a sure way never to never be “writing the same book over and over again”.  It’s people who write the same clichés over and over again who risk getting bored.

 

From things I’ve heard you say other times, I know you have really deep seated issues with clichés in books about the Middle Ages.

 

Oh, yes.  I can get very verbal, shall we say, about the clichés used by writers.  So much of what we’re taught to think of as “medieval” – such as streets deep in filth and garbage hurled out of windows and nobody bathing (apparently from the Fall of Rome to the Renaissance)—actually date from Tudor times and later.  And then there are the old standbys of “medieval” life: plague every time you turn around; lawless (and usually lascivious) lords by the bushel-basket full; violence so endemic it’s a wonder anyone dared go out of doors; and women dying in childbirth.  Please – no more books wallowing in the Black Death!  Find a different theme, for pity’s sake! The Black Death has been done (dare I say it) to death.  I won’t even try to refute the notion that all through the late medieval England, year in and year out, violent lords and outlaw bands were romping at will up and down and around the countryside.  Violence happened and there are idiots in every society (for which mystery writers are thankful, of course), and the Wars of the Roses did make for outbreaks of ugliness in the latter half of the 1400s, but I deliberately have my two series set in some decades when English life was going along very nicely, thank you, in order to contrast the shock of a crime against the reasonable tenor of most people’s everyday lives.  A bit more challenging than going for the down and dirty and obvious, but I like the challenge

              The trouble is that so many novelists read general study books of “medieval life” and a simplistic biography or two and let it go at that. Additionally, even if they’ve read a little deeper, they still transpose their own sensibilities into the story and present a distorted view of the times and people.  This is the “Mary Jane Visits the Castle” syndrome.  Or “Cathy Meets the Cathars”.  Or “Brian Braves the Bad Baron”.  There are plenty of chronicles, government documents,literature, and letters (besides those of the obnoxious, overly ubiquitous Pastons) of the time available in print and online, and modern scholarly articles likewise that could help writers move into the medieval mindset, rather than turn their novels into fantasy costume pieces erroneously called “medieval”.

             As for the grotesqueries and stupidities perpetrated in movies – don’t get me started.

 

Hm.  Yes.  Don’t hold back.  Tell us how you really feel.  Cliches in books set in medieval times really bother you, then?

 

Really.  Of course an author is free to tell whatever story they want to tell, and that’s fine.  We all have every right to do that, and if an author and some readers are content with clichés, that’s fine for them.  If I don’t like a book, I don’t have to read it.  But I do object to books that claim to be set in medieval times that then make a farce of that claim by doing the most egregiously wrong things.  We all make mistakes, but some things are SO wrong as to reduce the book from historical fiction to what I call “medieval fantasy fiction”.  Worse, personally speaking, is that then a book that strives for greater accuracy of time and place is seen as “wrong” because it doesn’t match the clichés.  Ask me about the editor of a short story collection in which I had a story, who said in his introductory essay that of course my supposedly medieval detective was actually very modern.

 

All right.  What about the editor of short story collection who said in his introductory essay that your supposedly medieval detective was very modern?

 

I’m so glad you brought that up.  The detective in question is Reynold Pecock.  He’s an actual historical personage.  The short story was set at a time when he was master of a college of priests and an almshouse in London.  He later became a bishop, and appears in THE BASTARD’S TALE and my short stories “The Simple Logic of It” (presently available electronically from Amazon.com; this is an unpaid advertisement thereunto), “Heretical Murder” and “Lowly Death” (not yet available online).  As an actual churchman of the 1400s, Pecock had the idea that the best way to bring heretics back into the Church was to persuade them by reason to give up their heresy, and to that end he wrote a number of books in, gasp, English, laying out in step-by-step logic why heretics should change their minds.  Some of these books are extent and in print.  If you have an urge to read medieval theology in Middle English, you can.  I did (which explains a lot about me, including why I have so little social life: “ Hi. Want to discuss the theological and political ramifications in Bishop Pecock’s BOOK OF FAITH?”), and I found him a delightful,kindly, occasionally droll man, with a mind devoted to intense logic and perfectly suited to be a detective.  The methods he uses in the stories to untangle crimes is absolutely medieval.  But the editor did not think so, and so in the anthology where that particular story appears, my detective is labeled as anachronistic when he very much is not.       

            Along that same line is a reviewer of THE SQUIRE’S TALE who observed that it seemed the only way a woman could avoid dying in childbirth in the Middle Ages was to never get married.  This was a singularly gratuitous observation because, although there was a pregnant woman in the book, she did not die in childbirth.  But the cliché is so strong that readers apparently see it even when it isn’t there!

 

On another tack altogether, some of us find Joliffe a very attractive man.  Why doesn’t he have more romantic encounters in his books?

 

You mean what doesn’t he get more sex?

 

Yes.

 

How about: The publishers impose a contractual word-limit on each book, and I have to use so many words creating the time and place believably, there aren’t enough left for sexual encounters, too.

            – or –

Mostly the plots just haven’t had room for plays, politics, murders, detection, and sex, without bending the stories illogically out of shape, just to get Joliffe into bed with someone. 

            – or –

I’m selfish and keeping him for myself.

            – or –

He’s actually getting far more action than it appears, but it all happens between the novels.

 

I’ve suspected as much.  Tell us more about him.

 

You remember that Joliffe first appeared in the Frevisse series, back in THE SERVANT’S TALE, and later shows up in THE PRIORESS’ TALE and THE BASTARD’S TALE and then as the title character in THE TRAITOR’S TALE.  His first appearance was supposed to be a one-off but I like him so well that I brought him back in that second and third time but couldn’t interest my agent in trying to sell him in a series of his own.  “The Frevisse series is going well.  Don’t shoot yourself in the foot,” was the way I remember she put it.  So I wrote A PLAY OF ISAAC just to show I could do two series at once.  It sold and Joliffe was on his way.

 Now if you remember his last exchange with Frevisse at the end of TRAITOR’S, you know somewhere along the way true love comes into his life.  Exactly when and how and with whom – I’m not telling.

 

But that must mean that you know, doesn’t it?  That you have an idea of where the series is going in a long arc, rather than just winging it from book to book.

 

Yes.  And that’s all you’re getting out of me.  But you may be amused to know that, with Frevisse’s series, someone lately got their master’s degree in English with the thesis that the novels are effectively separate chapters of a single long, multi-volume novel, based on the fact that the main character grows and changes over the course of the series into a deeper and more complex being than at its beginning.  If you’d like to read it, the whole thesis can be accessed from my website (if the link is working properly; let me know if it’s misbehaving again).

 

But the books can be read individually, as stand-alones, too, can’t they?

 

Certainly.  I intended them that way and give away as little as possible about past books in later books.  Of course if someone is alive in Book 15, you can suppose they aren’t murdered in an earlier book, but aside from that, they can be read separately and out of order.  One of the best compliments I’ve had comes from people who’ve told me they read the series out of order and enjoyed it so much they went back and read it in order.  That Frevisse, like Joliffe, grows and changes as the series goes on is part of my not-being-bored with writing these books.   

 

Yet you’ve said you have no plans for more novels about Frevisse.

 

When I realized my publisher was letting my backlist die, indicating they were losing interest in the series, I decided to bring the story to the end I wanted, rather than leave it to the publisher to chop it at some random point.  That said, I’m working on a brand-new Frevisse short story to put up for e-sale on Amazon.com fairly soon.  And work is afoot to make some of the long out-of-print books available there for Kindle, hopefully one at least before this year is out.  THE BISHOP’S TALE, as things stand now.

 

That’s good news, anyway.  What about Joliffe?

 

I’m just finishing A PLAY OF HERESY.  That’s the second book on my current two-book contract.  What the publisher decides then is up to the publisher and whatever arcane formulas the bean-counters come up with to determine life or death for midlist authors.  I will be the last to know.  Given how well e-books seem to be selling – and the fact that I have a son who understands how to turn books and stories into e-versions – that may be where I end up, writing and marketing my own work exclusively online. 

            Hey!  Maybe, with no limit on word-count, Joliffe could end up having more romantic encounters!

 

     That would work well for me.  As you know from my constant nagging, I’m very much in favor of Joliffe’s having more “romantic encounters.”   Thank you, Margaret, for stopping by.  On your next visit, maybe you can tell us about your intention to put aside your medieval mysteries temporarily to write a novel about Elizabeth of York.   

 

December 18, 2010 

 

 

 

 

 

     

97 thoughts on “INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET FRAZER”

  1. A fantastic interview! What a great sense of humour, especially the line about the bean counters. Another name on my wishlist!

  2. Loved the interview, and how have I not found these novels yet? So excited to have a new author to try 🙂

  3. Thanks Sharon…the blessed Kindle makes buying books far too easy..I just bought two of Margarets. Hopefully there will be many more.

  4. All part of my diabolic plot to drag the rest of you into book bankruptcy. It is such a great feeling, though, to find a “new” writer? Even better when said new writer has lots of unread books for me to plunge into.
    And this is an important day on the Penman calendar, for on December 19, 1154, Henry Fitz Empress and Eleanor of Aquitaine were crowned king and queen of England. Where would I be without the Angevins to write about? Someplace I would not like, I daresay.

  5. I love both the Dame Frevisse and the Joliffe books. I bought the Frevisse backlist a few years ago which cost a pretty penny. That’s too bad that there won’t be any more Frevisse books, but hopefully we can meet up with her again at some point in a future Joliffe book!

  6. I love historical mysteries, and Margaret Frazier’s are among the best. Get ahold of copies of both these series and you won’t be disappointed.

  8. I just finished A Play of Piety–I had it on pre-order. I’ve been swooning over Joliffe for years. I stalked him all through the Frevisse books and enjoyed them, too, but I was mainly looking for Joliffe. I’m looking forward to the next one!

  9. I loved this interview. Thank you, Sharon and Margaret, for sharing it with us. I’ve been a big fan of Frevisse and Joliffe for a long time. 🙂 It’s fun to read this sort of interview where thr participants obviously have so much fun together.

  10. A very good interview. I quite enjoyed it.
    Today, Richard the Lion-Heart was captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home from the Third Crusade (or at least, so says the calendar. I haven’t found an exact date – just ‘shortly before Christmas’)

  12. Dear Margaret Frazer, your titles make me think that they are a kind of homage to Chaucer. But I’m posting to mention the black death. Relatively recently there were two book that I’d recommend to get the “flavor” (if that’s the right word) of the effect of the plague–Connie Willis’s “Doomsday Book” and “The Black Death” by John Hatcher. “Doomsday” is purely fiction, and scifi at that, but I believe it viscerally captures what happened in 1348. Hatcher’s book is more like a fictionalized history, somewhat akin to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” Of course Hatcher wasn’t able to interview the people who were left, but rather had to relay on any extant documents.
    Anyhoo–I’m planning on damaging my wallet further by adding to my wish list. Since I haven’t yet read any of your books, my inclination is to start with the Joliffe series as it’s more recent. Should I start at the beginning or doesn’t it matter?

  14. According to the most reliable chronicles, it was on December 21, 1192 that Richard I was captured in Erdburg, a small village near Vienna. The Christmas that followed must surely have been the worst of his life, even though he would spend two Christmases as a prisoner of th Holy Roman Emperor. The Christmas of 1193 held hope since by then he knew Eleanor was on the way to Germany with his ransom. Probably his second worst Christmas was the one in December 1173 when Richard, then 16, learned that his mother had been seized by Henry’s men as she fled Poitiers for Paris. For Eleanor there must have been wretched Christmases beyond counting. She was an amazingly strong woman to have emerged from 16 years of confinement in such good shape, mentally, physically, and emotionally, and in a nicely ironic twist of fate, the years that followed were probably among the best of her life. She was able to exercise authority and enjoy her freedom on a scale hitherto denied her, even during the good years of her marriage to Henry. During the ten years of Richard’s reign, she was one of the most powerful women in Christendom, for she had the king’s complete trust and all knew it. I’ve sometimes thought things might have been different if only Henry had been able to allow her to exercise some of her political skills the way Richard did. She was a huge asset to Richard, could have been one to Henry, too, if he’d not been such a control freak. It was no easy thing to be born a woman of ambition and intelligence in an age in which power was the preserve of men. But while she was stifled in her two marriages, she came into her own as a mother. I doubt that vast ransom could ever have been raised if she hadn’t been determined to squeeze England dry to collect it. Nothing is more formidable than a mother grizzly in defense of her favorite cub! And she then was the driving force behind John’s triumph over Arthur after Richard’s sudden death. It is no wonder that this woman continues to fascinate us so many centuries after her death. But we ought never to forget that she paid a great price for her refusal to conform to their society’s standards of proper female behavior.
    Happy Winter Solstice to you, too, Koby, and to all of my other readers.

  16. I love the Dame Frevisse books. The telling of the story about
    a nuns daily life is so accurate. The details amaze me having
    lived with semi-cloistered nuns for 4 years and seeing so much of
    that rule still followed when I was there in the early 60’s. Her
    writing style keeps you wanting to read on and on, never tiring
    of the series. Please don’t end the “Dame” mysteries!!

  17. Thanks for the interview. I enjoy all of Margaret Frazer’s books, but especially the ones about Dame Frevisse. I hope we will revisit her before long.

  19. Great, more books to add to my wish list! I had come accross books from both Margaret Frazer and Persia Wooley but wasn’t sure if I should give them a try. After reading these interviews I definitely will.
    Given the amount of research that goes into Margaret’s novels, I would love to read her novel about Elizabeth of York if she ever decides to write it. Sharon, I really liked your portrayal of Elizabeth of York but it would be nice to follow her story through her entire life.
    I missed the lunar eclipse last night because of the clouds…grrr! It must have been nice!
    Only 2 days left before Christmas and 1 more day of work before five fantastic days off to spend with my family. I can’t wait!!!!!

  21. This is a classic. I’ve seen it before and enjoy watching it each time. The very first time I saw it there were no subtitles, but it was visually so funny that they are almost redundant. Thanks for sharing.

  22. Today, Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) a reclusive bricklayer who claimed to be a son of Richard III died.

  24. After reading The Traitor’s Tale, I remember chatting with Kim Malo, the late, beloved about Moderator (& Resident Genius) of the Crime Thru Time email list, how valedictory I thought the tone of that book felt. Kim thought or hoped that there would be more Frevisse; apparently only on Kindle. Sadly, however, I don’t have a Kindle or other e-book reader.
    Thanks for the interview, and also for the link; I am a Technology Integrator at a K-12 school & was amazed to see my life transposed into a medieval monastery!

  26. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Also, today is the common date given fo King John I’s birth, though we know better.

  27. Thank you, Koby, for that! So many people get John’s birthday wrong; we know it was not 1167, as is so often given, for if that had been the case, he was not Henry’s. The traditional day is usually said to be December 24th, but in light of his name, which came out of nowhere, he was most likely born on December 27th, the saint’s day of St John the Evangelist.
    Henry and Eleanor (and most of my other charactters) would have wished you all a Joyeux Noel. The Welsh princes would have gone with Nadolig Llawen. I’ll settle for a simple Merry Christmas.

  30. And today, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, who we discussed earlier in the comments was born.
    Also, yesterday, besides being Christmas was a popular day for coronations: Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, William the Conqueror was crowned king of England, Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned first King of Jerusalem and Count Roger II of Sicily was crowned the first King of Sicily.

  31. Thanks, Koby, for the information. You make my blog so much more interesting to read!
    I hope it was a good holiday for those of us who celebrate Christmas, a pleasant weekend for those who don’t. Unfortunately, my corner of the US is facing a blizzard today, so wish us luck.

  32. ‘Unfortunately, my corner of the US is facing a blizzard today’. Unfortunately? Sharon, count your blessings. We have had merely four days of rain, and winter is half gone. The huge fire which raged in the Carmel was merely a symptom of this drought. And the past few years haven’t been wet enough either. You cannot imagine the frustration people here feel, hearing of blizzards and floods all over the world, in Europe and America, just a scant few hundred miles north, while here the sun is out in full blaze, slowly but surely evaporating what little water we have left.
    I’m sorry if I came across as too vehement. But the situation really is dire – you just don’t hear about it because it hasn’t happened yet, and there is really very little we can do.

  33. Sharon,
    Sorry, that should have been Blwyddyn newydd dda, not Blyddyn. Anyway, happy new year, now where’s my show shovel?
    Dave

  34. Today, John I of England was born, as well as Anne de Mortimer, the mother of Richard of York, and so grandmother to Edward IV and Richard III.

  35. The changing weather pattern is very frightening, Koby. So many parts of the world are experiencing extreme weather, often unheard-of in their regions. New Jersey does not get much snow; now we’ve had six major snowstorms (three of them blizzards) in just a year. The UK does not normally get the sort of severe cold and snow that has it it this year. The flooding in Pakistan, the searing summer heat in Moscow, the deadly rainstorms in California, the droughts in your Israel and Australia–none of it bodes well for our future.
    Today the sun is out and the snow looks very beautiful–if not for the 45 mile an hour winds!

  36. We had snow here in the southern areas of Australia a few weeks ago- in what is meant to be summer. When our drought broke in the last few years some children were so frightened by the rain as they had never experienced it before. Young drivers did not know how to turn on their windscreen wipers as they had never driven in rain before. Now we are having flooding in the more northern parts of the country- people are having to be airlifted out of isolated towns. It seems that we reach new extremes all the time. Droughts then floods. Heat waves and major bushfires then a year of storms and cold weather. As you say Sharon, none of it bodes well for our future.

  37. We’re slowly digging out here, but life isn’t back to normal yet. I can still forge ahead with my evil plot to drag you all into book bankruptcy with me, though. I’ve mentioned Nan Hawthorne’s Today in Medieval History, a favorite of mine. Well, Nan has a new website, Medieval Novels. It is going to be an invaluable resource as it grows, a quick and easy way to find books you want to read and buy. Here is the link. http://www.medieval-novels.com/

  39. And today, the Battle of Wakefield took place, where the Yorkists had a devastating defeat. Richard, Duke of York, Sir Thomas Neville and Lord William Harrington were killed, Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury was captured, and Edmund, Earl of Rutland was murdered.

  40. A tragic date for Yorkists. On December 30, 1460 the Duke of York died at the battle of Wakefield and his 16 year old son Edmund was murdered afterward. Edmund has the dubious distinction of being the first character I killed off in one of my novels. I found it very hard to do. (With lots of practice, it gets easier.)
    Here’s an interesting “what if” about Wakefield. What if Edward and not Edmund had been the son with the Duke of York at Wakefield? Of course Edward always did have the devil’s own luck. If my memory serves, he had chosen to remain with his cousin Warwick rather than his father when they fled into exile, doubtless because he figured he’d be more closely supervised with dear old dad. Edward was then 17 and already showing himself to be a master at sowing wild oats.

  41. And today, Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, who was cpatured in the aforementioned Battle of Wakefield was executed.

  43. I hope New Year’s Eve was a good one for you all, whether you chose to celebrate in Mardi Gras style or quietly (and safely) at home. Sadly the year ended badly for so many people. There were unseasonal tornados in the American midwest, dreadful flooding continuing in Australia, religious strife throughout the world. Let’s hope 2011 gives us a more peaceful and prosperous year. But then we wish that every year, don’t we?
    Some of you may not realize the extent of the Australian flooding, for it has not been well covered in the American press, and I haven’t been impressed by the BBC coverage, either. The flooding now covers an area the size of Germany and France or the state of Texas. There is more information on my Australian fan club Facebook page. The town of Condamine was hit especially hard. The residents had to be rescued by helicopters, and they had to let a vet put their pets and farm animals down, for there was no way to bring them along. These poor people were faced with an appalling choice, to have their pets and livestock euthanized or to let them either drown or starve to death. At least when people had to flee Hurricane Katrina and leave their pets behind, they still had hope, no one imaging that they’d be kept away so long. My heart goes out to you all.
    On the historical front, today is the birthday of one of the most infamous of all popes, Alexander VI, a.k.a.. Roderigo Borgia, the father of the equally infamous (whether deserved or not) Lucrezia Borgia and her notorious brother Cesare. I believe Showtime is taking aim at the Borgias next. Since I’m sure they’ll adhere to the high standard of historical accuracy they set for The Tudors, we can expect a trip through fantasyland, allbeit an entertaining one. Oh, and on January 1, 1499, the most famous of the Medicis, Lorenzo, was born.
    I am sorry I have not been able to revist some of my old blogs for a while, as I know I’ve left some questions unanswered, but my old enemy, chronic mononucleosis, has reared its ugly litttle head again. After twelve years, I am used to this by now, and I’ve learned to compensate so I can still function, write and research, travel, etc. But the major symptom–exhaustion–forces me to pace myself more slowly and carefully than I’d like. I will get back to these earlier blogs, though, I promise. And my New Year’s wish for myself is that the accursed ailment quickly goes back into remission again. Ah, well, at least I was not stricken with Lionheart’s mysterious malady, arnaldia, which continues to defy diagnosis even after eight centuries.
    Happy 2011 everyone.

  44. Happy New Year to everyone with wishes of good health and prosperity for everyone. Sharon, I’ve got my digits crossed for a speedy and permanent remission of your chronic mono, as well as no more back pain.

  47. I LOVE the Dame Frevisse and Joliffe books. I’m sad to learn we may have seen the last of Dame Frevisse. I hope we’ll see her in new stories on Kindle. Sharon, I agree that Joliffe is super attractive and would love to see a little romance for him. I also am attracted to Justin De Quincy and miss him very much! I also think Durant (is that how it’s spelled?) is very sexy in an evil sort of way. Anyway, I very much enjoyed the interview and don’t even blame you for leading me to book bankruptcy. I already have the tendency to believe that even though I have a book on my book shelf, I still need to buy it for my Kindle, too. Hard to justify but hard to resist!

  48. I have read all the Margaret Frazer novels. My favorites are the Frevisse novels. I hope Ms Frazer reconsiders terminating the series. I would love to know how Frevisse fares after the ending of the last book ( don’t want to give anything away). I would also love some flashbacks. How was she as a Novice nun? Please reconsider Ms Frazer!!!

  49. I, too, hope there will be more Sister Frevisse novels. I hope the PUBLISHER reconsiders (and reissues some of the backlist, preferably in hardcover)! I will buy any and all e-versions, but there is something so satisfying about a book in hand… I love and cherish my collection of hardcovers and would be delighted to add to them. Elizabeth of York? Now that could be interesting. Talk about someone with mother-in-law problems!

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