M.J. Porter's Blog

An introduction to the Dark Age Chronicles (with some non-fiction suggestions)

Listen to me summarise The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles with only 20 seconds per book #histfic #newrelease #ShieldOfMercia

Shield of Mercia is getting a lot of fab early reviews. It's now available for you to read too #histfic #newrelease #ShieldOfMercia

Letter writing in the eleventh century: how I recreated Lady Estrid's connections with her vast family #histfic

With the upcoming release of Warriors of Iron, here are some of the sources I used while writing the trilogy

The inspiration behind The Secret Sauce, the third book in The Erdington Mysteries

With the release of The Secret Sauce, I'm sharing a post about how I recreated the setting for The Custard Corpses, my first foray into historical mysteries

Watch me write what would become Men of Iron, the first book in the Dark Age Chronicles

A brief introduction to Lady Elfrida, Saxon England's first acknowledged and recorded queen(contains spoilers)

A brief introduction to Lady Elfrida, Saxon England's first acknowledged and recorded queen(contains spoilers)