I’ve been busy?working on the revisions for my?historical novel, Fire of the Word, about the English noblewoman, Anne Askew. Although she lived over four hundred years ago, she is still remembered. Anne was a writer and poet. She wrote her own book, which was published in Europe in 1547 and distributed throughout England. As I read her account of her experiences, I felt a connection with a woman I have never met, who lived in a time far removed from my own. Time melded together. That is the power of the written word.