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Did I Read Any Fiction in 2024?
You’d hardly know it since my only related posts last year were:
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Back to Byzantium
Tuesday, I received thirty-seven single-spaced pages of notes from my developmental editor.
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Where There is No Fast Fashion
Wedged between the well-recorded 6th century, (think Emperor Justinian and his famous wife Theodora—all fit for TV drama), and the 8th century, (Bede…
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2024 Booker Prize: Longlist
A Bumper Crop of Historical Fiction
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Historical Reading and Writing Resource
Today I alert you to a new resource for readers and writers of history—both fiction and non.
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Greetings!
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Those Pesky Stuarts
The last two novels I read had an unplanned historical continuity.
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Work in Progress - Alex at Target Practice
Today’s offering is a peek at fourteen-year-old Alex three weeks into the 635 AD siege of Damascus.
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Late Antique/Early Byzantine Music
I wrote here of how I came to my Work in Progress; how the ideas landed in my head so many years ago.
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Work in Progress - Alex & Susannah Picnic on the Beach
I spent many hours writing two versions of a newsletter for today and have decided to let them simmer.
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Work in Progress - Alex in the drink
Write what you know?
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Perfume - by Patrick Suskind
Words that smell - a look at craft
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