http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/ Society devoted to historical fiction, n Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37:26 GMT Nan Hawthorne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14893 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14893 I agree, Helaina. This is why I scoffed so loudly when an authors group threw a fit about the text to speech threatened their audio book sales. Sha! No one Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:44 GMT Mark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14892 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14892 Hi gang! Now that my second novel "The Cigar Maker" is complete and moving into the publishing stage I want to start sharing excerpts from the book every now Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:06 GMT Helaina Hinson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14891 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14891 Kindles are a great thing. I hope to be able to afford one someday. I, however, think this mispronunciation makes a mockery of reading. Almost makes me glad Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:43:24 GMT Nan Hawthorne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14890 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14890 Helaina, et al, Having my Kindle 2 has been a great thing for me. It has opened up a huge selection of reading material that hitherto was outside my reach at Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:42:19 GMT Kathleen G http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14889 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14889 I can just imagine what it would do to the Welsh pronunciations in my books! :-0 Cheers, Kathleen -- Kathleen Cunningham Guler The Macsen's Treasure Series Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:41:09 GMT pandavoine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14888 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14888 Hi Nancy, Thanks. It's been a lot of work over many years. Dreamwand is the publisher, and it is listed as of yesterday on both Amazon and B&N online. Suzy Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:38:29 GMT pandavoine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14887 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14887 -- BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT --- Dearest Friends, My book about Salem, THE AFFLICTED GIRLS A Novel of Salem, is finally published. Today's the BIG DAY! It can be Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:29:02 GMT Helaina Hinson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14886 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14886 As an author - and an intelligent reader - that would make my teeth grind. I wouldn't go for the Kindle feature. ... From: Nan Hawthorne Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:19:50 GMT Nan Hawthorne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14885 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14885 Kindle 2: Possible Drawback for Authors and Their Readers From http://nanhawthorne.blogspot.com/2009/11/kindle-2-possible-drawback-for-authors.html Getting Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:44:26 GMT singwiththespirit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14884 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14884 I wonder what Plato the philosopher would have thought of Santayana the philosopher-poet.... KM Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:42:59 GMT frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14883 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14883 Anne, I was just having a little fun. But Plato was serious when he banned the poets from his Republic, because, in his view what was not verifiably true,was a Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:52:09 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14882 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14882 Singwiththespirit: I've read a fair amount of biographical fiction. I find most of it rather "episodic" and therefore, to me, not terribly exciting. Which is Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:45:06 GMT Anne Gilbert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14881 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14881 Frank: I wouldn't agree with you about the lady who thinks "historical fiction is all lies". It's fiction, which, if done right and well, contains the Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:11:05 GMT Susan Hicks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14880 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14880 Amy at Passages to the Past has a synopsis up of a 'how to' book on writing historical fiction. Interesting first sentence on the synopsis! Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:18:37 GMT singwiththespirit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14879 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalNovelSociety/message/14879 There are degrees of speculation. Unless all he writes are timelines of events, even the most scrupulous historian speculates - about motivations, about the