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                                                   Help Your Self, the Triumph of Hope over Experience* Now I didn’t like being on my own, but I wasn’t about to rush back into getting married again. Once bitten twice shy, as they say. I was continually surprised by how people around me in the same situation seemed to quickly meet someone else and settle down. I just could not work out how they found it so easy. I had tried friendships of the Harry met Sally type, which unfortunately didn’t end up for me as it does in the film; I had done some blind-dating that actually led to a couple of more than friendships, involving in one case a trip to Paris (without the two boys), but they both came to nothing; and I had even met someone from Manchester on a poetry course with whom I shared what might be called ‘a brief encounter’; but in the end I was still rattling a...

Jenny Alexander As a new self-published author I’m always interested to hear of others’ experiences and when I found out  Jenny Alexander  was looking for a guest blog spot, I jumped at the chance to learn from hers. Particularly when I found out the book she’s launching this week is on a subject that links well with my own books and is clearly close to my heart. Earlier in the summer, when invited to talk to two Year 6 classes in Barnard Castle (when presenting them with copies of my book donated by a local community group: see  the-best-laid-plans-by-alex-marchant ), it struck me that  The Order of the White Boar  wasn’t just about King Richard III, but also about the transition from primary to senior school. In this case, the transition from York Minster song school to ‘page school’ at Middleham Castle, but it’s effectively the same. And my other two books (neither historical fiction) are also about the same subject – and all three tackle the issu...