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Tag Archives: Historical Fiction
My Favorite Romance Novels
For serious. I didn’t realize when I started reading the Lymond Chronicles (Book One is The Game of Kings) how much heartfelt self-denial and doomed romance I was getting in for, but it’s there. On some level, and almost from … Continue reading
The Methode of a Poet Historical
“For the Methode of a Poet Historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions, but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, … Continue reading
Posted in Quotation
Tagged Edmund Spenser, Historical Fiction, King Arthur, Poetry, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Faerie Queene
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Bookshelf: Knights Dawning
From the time I read Umberto Eco’s novel Foucault’s Pendulum, when I was in high school, I’ve wanted to write a novel about Assassins and Knights Templar. It would have been, I think, a story about two men who hated … Continue reading
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Tagged Assassins, Crusades, Foucault's Pendulum, Historical Fiction, James Batchelor, Knights, Medieval, Templars, Umberto Eco
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The Saxon Tales: Two Observations
I am reading Bernard Cornwell’s Death of Kings now, the latest in his Saxon Tales (it’s in ARC form, and I get to read it thanks to Amazon’s Vine program… nyaah, nyaah). It’s awesome, and I’ll have a review up on … Continue reading
Posted in How to Write
Tagged Bernard Cornwell, Historical Fiction, Milieu Detail, The Saxon Tales
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