January 2019 I entered YouTube Truthers Hang Out as Greta Brookes. Via Martin Liedtke. He spent about 5 point 3 seconds on my work which was based on Fomenko/New Chronology. Woooo, Hundreds of views every day. Comments. Messages. Likes & Subs. A year and a couple of weeks later the same person TRASHED me as… Read More Too Late? : Where I Came In …
It’s beyond obvious that Conan Doyle was a great collector of folklore and legend. The Hound of the Baskervilles is such a good example. Did you know…? There is a huge kerfuffle between Devon and Wales about where Arthur got his inspiration for this book. Does it have anything to do with : Journalist Mr… Read More From Dartmoor to The Welsh Marches to Scotland : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I’ve studied my art and craft for decades. In many forms. Even scriptwriting. Word to Film or Mind to Paper? What is SUBTEXT? Well. Just about every single post posted here has a subtext. But it’s too subtle for the masses. Unless you know What Lies Beneath. This is a writer’s secret weapon and Dorothy… Read More SUBTEXT
You don’t get much more Gothic than Edgar Allan Poe. He’s everything that the word “gothic” encapsulates. Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…omgiddyaunt…poetry love for POETS Day :o) I’m liking this Prof’s videos. Don’t agree with everything but that’s not a bad thing. It’s gotta be Christopher Lee doing the Corvid Vibe. YAY.
This book has been on my various bookshelves in various homes for over 30 years and – OMG – how much vitriol it has produced out of the blue. So many times a man has read the title and then tackled me. It’s been a quite amusing. Written in 1791 by Mary Wollstonecraft, this is… Read More A Vindication of the Rights of Women : Mary Wollstonecraft
This book has been very unhelpful in a helpful way to me over the years. It’s easier to breakdown than The Hero’s Journey but still confused my brain cell too often. It reminds me of the “plot” to bring “truth” to the world via youtube. After my 6 or 7 years investing the community, every… Read More The 7 Basic Plots
I came into this twisted “truther” world as a writer. A novelist. With MANY years experience. Go here – Or not, as one hater said I’m not reading your stuff, it’ll cause me cancer. That was ACTUALLY POSTED AT ME. Oh. HERE 13th of August 2018. Or here… THE ONE AND ONLY THING YOU WILL… Read More Date : 13th of August 2018 – The One & Only Thing You Need To Write a Novel
Oscar needs no introduction. Kit (Christopher) is probably less well known. He wrote The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus in the 16th century. Both of these writers explored the phenomenon of “selling your soul to the devil.” Wilde’s book is of it’s time. Fin de siècle. End of the century. Most… Read More Kit Marlowe vs Oscar Wilde
OMG. I’m showing my age now. Way back – Starsky & Hutch were BEST on UK Saturday night TV. We loved it. Especially Huggy Bear. God Bless Ariadne’s Thread :o)
Even now – at my age – it still hurts. Lies are the worst but even evasions or dissembling or attempts to protect with total fibs hurt. I am so NOT perfect. Foibles R Me. And brutal honesty stings like hell but in the long run it’s preferable. P.S. I’m a brilliant critique partner….much kinder… Read More Dirty, Rotten, Scoundrels
I have had the great fortune to be critiqued by some amazing writers. A critique partner is the best friend who tells you that you smell – or your writing is absolute crap. My writing and real life C.P’s became really good friends and mentors to me. They made me laugh. They made me cry.… Read More Ego Death aka A Critique Partner
I have not touched on this subject since early 2019. Black Madonnas Many years ago whilst researching the early 15th century, I came across the Black Madonna phenomenon. It has always intrigued and I promised my self back then that, when the time was right, I’d investigate deeper. Seeing differently now, learning so many new… Read More Revisiting The Black Madonna
I’ve done a few psych tests in my time……work related!!!! But way back in the early 2000’s I came across The Enneagram Institute and decided to try this one. I NEVER lie or bluff or fluff on these things – my job once depended on absolute honesty. This one impressed me so much that I… Read More 6w5 : MY Enneagram Type
Well, now. Who’d’ve thought that research done over 20 years ago would come back to me right now? Historical Fiction writers are unashamed plagiarist’s. They (or maybe just me!!) love to use personal accounts of the time like letters, memoires, diaries and travelogues. I’d used Coryat’s travel impressions several times. Along with his patterns of… Read More Coryat’s Crudities
The video below talks about a quite well-known piece of history. My fave author (right now) took this and wrote an incredible tale called Night After Night. Yup. Talked about it before but somethings never get old. KP was 36 when she died. After giving birth to a daughter by her 4th (?) husband Thomas… Read More How To Build a Wonderful Story
I bought this book decades ago. A 1975 secondhand version for about a £1. It’s served me well :o) A first reading when right over my head, even though I knew about Grave’s White Goddess and Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey. It’s worth all the brain-ache …in my humble opinion. Especially if you are a writer… Read More Vladimir Propp
I came at this Siege via many different angles when writing my novel – Weave a Garland of My Vows This was the first of a five part series, indie published in 2014 and a total bomb blast for me. It’s made me a fortune of about £40 in 8 years. Whatever. George Villiers was… Read More La Rochelle
Annie and Dave are fabby famous. So this song is Known by many. Kelvin Kyte? And why bring him into it? PAY ATTENTION to the music video. Read the below. And work IT OUT yo’self. FFS. Hint? Nah :o) Just words. Thttps://www.bookseries.org/series/the-cold-calling/he characters are real people with real issues and the mysteries are dissected and… Read More Love Is a Stranger & Kelvin Kyte
I’ve never really been a fan of Dickens but he has been a part of my life for decades. Bleak House – Gibraltar. The Charles Dickens Pub – Portsmouth. Great Expectations – School. One of his sons was a lawyer/Queens Council, Henry, who tried some famous criminal. Monica Dickens – a great granddaughter who wrote… Read More Please, Sir. I Want Some More
Dame Agatha knew her literature :o) Every Night & every MornSome to Misery are BornEvery Morn and every NightSome are Born to sweet delightSome are Born to sweet delightSome are Born to Endless Night
Hamlet. KenBran and Richard Briers. OR I’m a writer. Words are my WORK. I’m also a new sub to Scott. BUT…..as ever, I’ve brought along MY mess to HIS channel. I’m so sorry. Hopefully we can do more words today without being FLAT-SMACKED….which is a phrase that I posted live on the GlobeLieTour way back… Read More Words, Words, Words
My first draft of Weave a Garland of My Vows was pure pantser. I included EVERYTHING I’d researched and this BS ended up with close to a million words. No exaggeration. Second draft was not much better. Nor third. By the fourth draft – I realised that what I’d written was an entire series spanning… Read More Plotters vs Pantsers
We are all victims (>?<) Of someone else. If we truly wanna believe that. BTW. This was a book before it was a film.
It started for me in 2018. I’d spent almost a year watching videos by certain yt creators. Then I joined the “trooth” community via FEB in January 2019 Stuff went viral. See image above. Woohoooooo! Not :o( I was given the label of Desperate Chick on yt in search of a babe. It got so… Read More How To Start & Build a LIE
Ravens of Dinefwr- my W.I.P. – followed the lives of some REAL historical (?!) people. The Kings and Princes and families of Wales in the early 1100’s. But they were joined by purely fictional characters. Who helped fill in the academic historical lacunae. When you have over a decade missing from the sources/ records, you… Read More Uhtred
This is the basis of my next novel – that’ll have to wait. As long as I have to battle fake history. 1093. Rhys ap Tewdwr and his son, Gruffydd ap Rhys who married Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd. She’s the one who was beheaded. Gruffydd died less than a year later. In unknown circs. Both of… Read More Ravens of Dinefwr
I’ve been brought to this story by circuitous routes. I have MR James in book and audio form…a long-term project. This is one story that totally sticks with me. “Quis est iste qui venit?” Parkins, the protagonist, is a young Cambridge University professor on holiday in the town of Burnstow (a fictionalized version of Felixstowe, Suffolk), on the southeast… Read More Monty James : Oh! Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad.
Polidori died aged 25. In his short life though, he had a HUGE influence. He was a physician and a writer who had many contacts with people who we are much more familiar with. Wollstonecraft, Rossetti, Shelley, Byron (Mad, Bad, Dangerous to know) Did he die by his own hand? Who knows for sure but… Read More John William Polidori : Following the Threads
What’s the betting that Bram read many a penny dreadful ? Carmilla was serialised in a magazine. Even Arthur Conan Doyle started his Sherlock Holmes stories in serial magazine format. Let’s go back to Varney the Vampire…..see previous post??? SHOCK SHOCK HORROR HORROR : Yay. I’m a huge fan of Gothic Literature. I ain’t dissing… Read More 1845 vs 1897
POETS Day – of a sort. As in Pee Off Early, Tuesday Soon :o) My brain had convinced me that the latest Merrily book would be available on the 2nd of April. Stupid Brain! Phil Rickman Next book in the MW exorcism series, out on June 2, 2022. ’I called on darkness… midnight darkness…’ At… Read More ‘Promote ill purposes and Flatter foul desires.’
My original blog : Greta Brookes began as a book blog about …. THE RAVENS OF DINEFWR CHRONICLES The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the… Read More The Far-Farers : Ravens of Dinefwr
The Remains of an Altar. I learn so much from Phil Rickman. I’m listening to Remains right now. In 1934, the dying composer Sir Edward Elgar feebly whistled to a friend the theme from his Cello Concerto and said, “If you’re walking on the Malvern Hills and hear that, don’t be frightened. It’s only me.”… Read More Mr Phoebus : Elgar
I’ve been back with childhood book memories again and I had a choice between the two authors above. I’m not feeling very Winnie the Pooh right now. More like Eeyore :o) Why? Well. the latest yt ban has me bemused. All I did was tell the truth. I’m totally stumped and bemused. How can my… Read More A.A. Milne vs Robert Louis Stevenson
Layamon’s Brut came up in my research yesterday. It came after the Welsh Dracula paragraph! And yep. I’ve had the book for decades – or a modern version of Layamon’s Brut. Because when I research, I research deeply. It’s all about the flow of information. Where it first started. Who started it? Why? Where? How… Read More Wace & Layamon
Right at the beginning of Bruce’s video below is a perfect picture of the mountains I climbed aged 20. See the narrow ridges along the tops? Some were only wide enough for two x size 5 feet in Army boots to walk. Around 10 inches across. See the flanks? They were all dry, midsummer scree.… Read More I Will NVR4GT Glencoe
More and more, as each day passes, I’m appreciating my English Literature Lessons with Miss Woodhouse. WORDS. Books. Writing. Meaning. As a writer myself, I’m quite often stunned when I re-read my own written words. As a reader, I see so much more than was written. Skip forward : the last sentence makes sense to… Read More Words, Words, Words : Hamlet
The Victorian Historians wrote that Villiers and Marie de Rohan were lovers. I never subscribed to that fancy. In my book I made them each one side of the same coin. They taught each other. They were fast friends and partners-in-time. Quick-witted but ultimately doomed.
Here’s a reminder of a reminder of an original post. No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt! ABUSE, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, BEGINNINGS, BOOKS, BORED, BYE!BYE!, DID YOU KNOW?, DISGUSTED, DIVINE LAW, GRETA BROOKES MONOGRAPH, HISTORICAL FICTION, HOME, HOW VERY DARE I?, MURDER MOST FOUL, N A R C, NATURAL, NOVEL WRITING, ONLY FOOLS, PSYCHIC VAMPIRES, RESEARCH, SCOTLAND, SHAME ON THEM, THANK YOU :O), THE HIDDEN HISTORY PROJECT, TRUTH, UAH, UGLY, VOICE, WEAVE A GARLAND OF MY VOWS, WHODUNNIT?, WISE UP, WOMEN, WRITING August 2018 :… Read More August 2018 : Shadow Self
Wow. Minutes before the 1850 reset! It’s been decades since I read this. Yes. I’m huge fan of the Gothic Horror Genre. And EAP. The Raven is spectacular. In my humble opinion…Nevermore. Lenore. Door. Is this the one where he buries his sister alive? Hang on. Checking the FACTS on yt……… INTERMISSION OK. Fine. Dementia… Read More The Fall of the House of Usher : 1839
Way back when I was writing my novel about Marie de Rohan – Weave a Garland of My Vows… …I came across the Cours des Miracles and got side-tracked for as long as it took to write a synopsis, character profiles and an outline for another – purely fictional book – about a murder in… Read More Cour des miracles
From day 1 on ytoob I presented my work with the New Chronology narrative to Martin Liedtke. He very kindly shared this with his subs and other friends. This was 3 years and 5 days ago. To this date (10/1/2020) Fomenko and his team’s work has been at the very core of The Hidden History… Read More Deeply Uncomfortable Life Path
I have had this novel on my shelves for more years than I am willing to admit. I know more about Umberto Eco than this book. I’ve read several of his non-fiction works. OK. I may be old enough now to handle this :o) **** The name of the central character, William of Baskerville, alludes… Read More Time To Enter the Labyrinth : The Name of the Rose
I came across Howdie via Owen Benjamin…today. Thank you, BB :o) I discovered The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail over 20 years ago too. Just after I’d really begun to deeply research the Cathars. Henry Lincoln brought us (the public) to Rennes-le-Chateau and all that. But it was always the Cathars who intrigued me… Read More Finally : I’ve Found a Researcher On MY Research Track
Opinions are like arses – everybody has one! Well. I may or MAY NOT have wasted a good proportion of the last 20 years of my life testing the CRAZY New Chronology “Pseudo – Science.” MY OPINION IS : I’ve gained more than I’ve lost. Time included :o) I take their pseudo-whatnots and test them… Read More The “New Chronology” is crazier than you might think 🐻
Going back to Godiva and Tupholme Abbey. A TUP is a randy male sheep…a RAM. A HOLME is a piece of land that often gets flooded by the local river. Tupholme Abbey, or the ruins of – to this day – is by the River Witham and is grazed by sheep who escaped the regular… Read More What is a TUP & What is a HOLME?
Uncontrolled Historian 