Welcome to my web page.

Having writing as a passion and a separate parallel activity to provide for material needs has its advantages and disadvantages. One obvious disadvantage is the lack of the motivation that necessity imposes – but this is also the most obvious plus: there’s no need to hurry.

So when I’m looking up information for my novels I tend to spend entire days researching something that in the finished novel may be reduced to a single line, just for the pleasure of satisfying my curiosity.

In this and other respects, The Ring has been a source of many surprises. It not only received an unexpected literary award in the shape of the Alfonso X El Sabio Historical Novel Prize, in Toledo, Spain, but it is also enjoying huge critical and commercial success, first in Spain and now internationally. I think that it is better to please many readers than just the select few of an award jury, but if you can please both, that’s a dream, in this case a dream come true.

I believe if I had lots of fun with my unexpected findings related to The Ring, maybe my readers will enjoy them too. So here I offer the results of my research into some of the “mysteries” that I came across while writing the novel.