Ask the Author: Mercedes Rochelle
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Mercedes Rochelle
Thanks for the invite. If you assign books to read, I'm not a good candidate. I put more books aside than I read; there are just too many other books waiting to be read. I do appreciate your offer, nonetheless.
Mercedes Rochelle
Thanks for asking! Yes, to this day Alexandre Dumas is my all-time favorite author. When I was recovering from an operation I reread The Three Musketeers, which captured me as much as ever! This month, my husband and I have decided to explore all the local parks with walking trails; we live in a rural area, so we don't bump into many people. When the weather is bad, I go back to my next work in progress: THE USURPER KING about Henry IV. It's hard to get started, but at least I know what's going to happen!
Mercedes Rochelle
My next book is entitled The Sons of Godwine, which will be part 2 of The Last Great Saxon Earls series. Of course Harold Godwineson is featured in this book, but what of his brothers? I believe that events leading up to Hastings had much to do with the relationship between the sons of Godwine, especially the sibling rivalry between Harold and Tostig. Like many charasmatic people, Harold's world was all about Harold, but his brothers saw him somewhat differently than he saw himself. Their stories come out too, and are woven into the tapestry of the most powerful family in England.
Mercedes Rochelle
All the way back to my college days, I was intrigued by the Banquo and Fleance subplot from Macbeth. Fleance gets away from the murderers, but is never mentioned again during the play (except that Macbeth was annoyed at his escape). What Kings were the witches talking about, and when did they appear? I knew nothing about Scottish history, and it took some lucky digging to find the only book that traced Fleance's fate. That he was the ancestor to the Royal Stewarts must have been common knowledge in Shakespeare's time, and it was thought that he wrote this play in homage to James I.
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