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Last weekend (well, from Thursday evening), I attended the Harrogate History Festival, but I took a break on the Saturday for an awayday to London. And I wasn’t in the bar at The Lamb in Conduit Street just for the mouthwatering steak & kidney pie and chips! Upstairs in the meeting room, Christina Courtenay (historical […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 30th, 2014 | Category: Alternate history, Authors, Events, Genres, Romantic Novelists' Association, Writing skills | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Ruth Downie read too much Jane Austen at university, emerged with an English degree and a plan to get married and live happily ever after. As a backup she learned typing and shorthand, in the mistaken beliefs that people would always need secretaries and that she might be quite good at it. Finally escaping into […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 23rd, 2014 | Tags: Books, Crime, historical, mystery, Roman medicine, Rome | Category: Authors, Genres, Guests, Romans | 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Talking online with some colleagues about historical and alternative historical writing, the conversation inevitably turned to research and how it was woven in or dripped into the story. We all declaimed against the dreaded info dump when the poor reader gets a JCB bucket size load of history book content poured on them. But how […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!October 13th, 2014 | Tags: historical | Category: Genres, Insights, Readers, Research, Writing skills | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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