The Libertà Hive
Libertà is this light-hearted website where readers and authors share their experience, discoveries, favourites and
occasional oddities.
We are four multi-published authors — Sophie Weston, Joanna Maitland, Liz Fielding and Sarah Mallory. And we laugh a lot.
Popular posts
We’ve been blogging here at Libertà for more than 10 years. That’s over 600 posts. Phew 😉
But the search boxes in the sidebar will let you dig out any subject you like. You can go for a Category or simply a subject word. Feel free to try.
Some of our most popular posts are the historical costume series, covering everything from underwear to boots.
You can see them all using this costume link.
Another popular series is about self-publishing. You can read all of our blogs on that via this self-publishing link. We hope they are helpful to indie authors.
Above all, we hope all our blogs are both entertaining and thought-provoking. All comments welcome.
The Libertà Name?
Where did the name come from?
Well, the two founders wanted to stress writing independence—liberty 😉 if you like—and that was part of it.
Also, both Sophie and Joanna have a fondness for bad puns.
No, the name has nothing to do with BERT. Joanna protests that she doesn’t know anyone called Bert. But it did have to do with BOOKS.
Our pun attempt fell flat. Not a single visitor to the website, over all these years, has noticed that the name Libertà is a combination of liber (Latin for book) and tà (thank you). Sigh. But as you’ll see from many of our blog posts, we at Libertà are very, very grateful to books. So long live Libertà! And long live books and authors.
Oh and how on earth do you pronounce Libertà? Think how you say the English word liberty and replace the final -y with an -a. Bert really doesn’t come into it, honest.
