’Tis a Battle Most Royalle! Yea, loyalle Subjectes of His Grace, King Richard III (or as we knoweth him, Dickon), we hath issued this news parchment as he goeth hedd to hedd with ye dresser of haire for a make-ye-over. ’Twill make ye headlynes all oe’r Muddleham! So, wilt thou follow thy brave warrior king into battle once more? ’Tis for ye Battle of Barnett (Mk2): to win back his rightful crownyng glory! We hath ‘combed’ through oure best material and ‘brushed’ away the cobwebs from oure quills to be within a ‘hair’s breadth’ of winnyng ye battle! So, read thee on and let battle commence!
Joanne lives in Rayleigh, Essex, with her husband, John, and two dogs, Jonah, the black Lab cross and Hunter the Miniature Dachshund.
She has worked as an osteopath for over twenty years, but is interested in many subjects and people. Her latest inspiration is Richard III, whom she became interested in when she saw the Channel 4 documentary, 'The King in the Car Park'. She read every book she could find on the King, but became tired of knowing how they would end and finally decided to write her own, a time travel Alternative History called 'Richard Liveth Yet', the 'book she wanted to read'. It eventually became a trilogy and then she wrote a stand-alone novel 'Distant Echoes' - historical with a hint of sci-fi.
She has contributed to several short story anthologies and is editing another of alternative stories about the Wars of the Roses, involving twenty other authors.