Anyway – just to say thank you to Dallas, for the vital engagement of the audience, and the great experience of so many younger faces enthralled by history, AND my tour of the art next morning before the gallery opened. If it hadn’t been for the next plane delay ( three hours this time) to Boulder  I would have been in heaven.

Boulder is high enough to be half way to heaven however. I hope Boulder book shop has found some people also interested in talking history.  More while waiting for the next lane to Portland. Now Portland is a city I have been wanted to visit for a very long time time. Firday (16t) night at Powells. Now that is ambition fulfilled.

take care all of you and keep writing and reading.

I am heading off to Australia and New Zealand this weekend for another three week tour. And hope to meet a few of you en route. All details on the site now.

For the rest, please keep on writing. I cannot tell you what a deep pleasure it is to hear your voices. Even the person who hated the end of the book! What can I say. For me it was the only end possible. And I do not say that lightly having lived with the story for the best part of three years. In passing, perhaps  I should add that I had no idea what the end would be until I was deep into writing the book.  This may be a reflection of not knowing what I am doing. Or it may be that sometimes the story only unfolds when you have got lost within it. All thoughts happily listened to on this and other things.

Best

Sarah

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It is quite close to my heart because ,of couse, while the renaissance is known for its beauty and wonder, it was also a time of huge violence and brutality.  That I certainly believe. And given the levels of pain and limits of medicine or even medical hygiene, and the religious emphasis on body versus soul, I thing the human body itself was a more potent , fragile yet powerful object then.  But I throw it open to others to comment. I”m not sure about the ptotocol of an author replying to someone’s review> It might seem a bit self reverential. And thank you for all your comments it feels like we are staring a dicussion now. Yeah!

To those I didn’t get to meet this blog is there for your thoughts and comments. I am trying to get the set up of the site changed so we can all see each other comments together more easily and maybe start discussions. I would happily join in. So throw some ideas and questions out.

To all of you have have bought “Sacred hearts” a great thank you and i hope it does not disappoint, I have come to realise that the best publicity in the whole world is word of mouth and so if it enthralled you then please just pass the word. Eventually we will have a huge forum here talking  about women, the past, spirituality, sexuality, music, art, relglion . You name it. I look forward to it.

Sarah

as to the postulate!  I will send my web master ( great terms isn”t it) a  message today.

struggling with a lost voice ( if anyone finds it send it via my website) but looking forward to finding one when I need to. This morning a tv interview with Nancy Pearl the US’s great public ( in many senses) librarian, tonight an event with the university bookshop then on tomorrow to LA.  more planes than a human being ought to take – a carbon footprint  that will take years to recover from. i shall have to walk to Italy for the next decade, but the conversations that come at the end of the events are worth it.

otherwise  as long as i remember to eat it all goes well…..

On Monday I did a great gig in Ben Mcnally’s books In Toronto, but in a huge itlaian restaurant, where of course people yelled and shouted, as italians love to do.  I had brought a cold stowed away in my luggage from London and I had a voice that sounded deep enough to be the only y magnificent. Musica Secreta recorded all the lovelist bits of music which are in the book and ther do indeed have the voices of angels. A real soundtrack of its own. There are samples of it on podcasts and the web site and you can buy the Cd on a link from my site to theirs.  Music Secreta are  women who have given their lives to delve deep into history and bring alive the sounds of women ’s voices as they were 500 yars ago.  They are also enormous fun to work with.

Me – I croak and swallow throat lozenges and with luck some kind of voice will return.,  Otherwise I’ll give the seagulls a run for their money when I hit the ferry out to Victoria island tomorrow. At Cadboro books for anyone local…..

Thanks to you all for your blogs. It makes a real difference to feel one is not alone, even when the hotel room is  empty.   Sarah

Meanwhile I have been hurtling around Dublin on the opening of this mad international tour.  Such a friendly city, coping well with a recession which is as low as the boom was high.  Also reeling from revelations of abuse within the Catholic church, all now documented in a new public report. So there was much talk about religion an how each and all religions handle the high octane pressure of  sexuality and how far Catholicism in particular demands too much from those who end up as priests and nuns. All of course utterly wonderful for me as these are just some of the kinds of questions – albeit 500 years ago, that I am asking in Sacred Hearts.

Anyway, the high spot of the crazy 48 hours was to find myself staying in  the same hotel as Bruce Springstein  Of course I didn’t see him, but just to know that he might have been in the same lift. Everyone has to have heroes don’t you think?  Next stop Toronto…