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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Friday, 4 November 2011

Blog News: English Historical Fiction Authors

Crossdressing women, ghostly chickens, riots in Georgian London, what to wear when you go shooting, feminist writers of the French Revolution: these are just a few of the topics covered thus far on the new blog, English Historical Fiction Authors.  The authors are an unusually eclectic bunch, publishing historical fiction of all genres, and in media from large presses to ebooks.  Men are also very well represented for a change!  And if that's not enough to get you to take a look, they even have a page for posts and short stories by readers.

Their blurb reads: 

Britain leaves us awed by ancient castles, palaces and museums. History pours out a legacy of battles, a developing monarchy, a structured class system, court-inspired behaviors and fashions, artwork and writings that have created an international hoard of Anglophiles. From among them have come forth those who feel that they must fuel the fire. Welcome to the happy home of English Period Authors. We have come together to share our historical work and to reach out to our appreciated readers.

I've added them to my blog list, and I think readers and writers of historical fiction will find them a useful and friendly resource.

 



Friday, 9 September 2011

Historical Fiction News

Some interesting news from the latest issue of The Historical Novels Review, a publication of the Historical Novel Society.  After a successful fifteen years of conferences, an excellent quarterly review of all new UK and US historical fiction, and a lively magazine, Solander, they are gearing up to become a web-based society.


Among changes touted by the society's founder, Richard Lee, will be daily updates of news and book reviews, facebook links and twitter feeds, and, eventually, a searchable database of all reviews.  Check out the current website for a taste of what is already on offer, including the online review that covers ebooks, non-conventional presses and self-published novels.

The two covers in this post are of the latest books I and my daughter reviewed for the society.  Click on the images to learn more.

Carrie Vaughn's Steel


Amit Mujmadar's Partitions