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- Too gross? Or too boring?
- Real Person, Real Incident, Real Dialogue, Fake age?
- Calling ancient Assyrian writers...
- Memorabilia from your WIP era?
- What is the name of this royal court person?
- Warning: English 1B vent thread
- Historical help
- Captain Alatriste
- sticking to history?
- Would joining the SCA help with my medieval?
- Another Free Lecture(s) at the Getty Villa that may be of interest
- Historical inaccuracy no bar to publication...
- Treatment for Melancholia (Late 17th-Early 18th Centuries)
- Pretty boy
- Agent looking for historical romance...
- Looking for some perspective...
- Recomendations needed: History of the United States Secret Service
- swearing in the 17th/18th century, f-bomb and variants
- ARCs
- Historical fiction and real characters
- Just in case...
- Travel distance and time
- Just in case...
- Historical Book Review Sites & Blogs
- Resource for historical language?
- Agent looking for historical fiction - maybe
- 1880 London question
- 2 anthology markets you might like.
- character name and formal introduction
- Grand, sweeping events as witnessed by children
- D-Day news broadcasts
- Names Painted on Ships?
- Fishing in the Caribbean (early 17th-late 18th Centuries)
- Egyptophiles, come hither.
- Hist Fic with historically insignificant narrator
- Great.
- Negro Slave-era dialect and dialogue (writing it)
- historical question...
- Shipboard Eye Injuries (late 17th-early 18th Century)
- Unpublished Historical Novel Comp
- Persian Empire resources?
- Can you get there from here, and how long?
- How to get on a horse - or - how to find out miscellaneous bits of historical info
- does my book fit in here?
- Eleventh Century Ships
- Advice from the Horse's Mouth.
- Friendly Reminder
- Looking for a resource...
- historical fiction agents
- Covered Wagons and Tents
- Illegal to KNIT?
- Can someone vet my thinking?
- Use of dates
- Archiac versus contemporary voice?
- Children of Eurystheus
- Virtual book tours anyone?
- Unexpected Reaction
- Yoo hoo - Anyone out there?
- Story obstacle - looking for some opinions
- Long Prologue
- History Hunters Weekend Reports
- PROBLEM!!!!!!!! (solved)
- Bad News, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead
- Historical Genre Success Stories!
- Historical Genre WIPs
- Day In The Life Exercise
- Sept - Dec Contests
- The Ultimate Contest - Labor Day Weekend
- Historical Fiction for YA
- Not Tonight, Honey; I Have a Battle Tomorrow
- Past or Present Tense?
- YA or Adult?
- How much??
- Prologues? Yes/No?
- If it's in the past, but not history, what is it?
- Historical Fiction or Hist Romance?
- I've been...
- Who was it asked for...
- Historical Fiction Online
- So excited I just had to share
- I haven't written a historical novel...
- Berlin 1939 - 1942 (information found)
- Historical NaNoWriMo?
- Acceptable Activities for a Victorian Sunday?
- Question About Using Quotations- Please Help
- Continental Marines...
- New Research Tool...
- I need a word
- This is cool -- I just found a historical book about my own 17th century ancestors
- Are you Bi-Genre?
- Different for Historical?
- What made you write your WIP?
- Merging events-yes or no?
- How would people in the 16th century know the time at night? Or would they?
- Time spent researching vs actually writing the story
- Style, voice, etc.
- Use of names
- Warsaw's War
- I'm not very happy about this
- A Historical Linguistics Question (17th Century Gaelic)
- Changed Identity
- Stuck on Victorian Marriage Laws
- Historical NaNoWriMo 2008
- World War I's Battle of Verdun
- Morality in Ancient Sparta
- Food, transport, adverts etc Ireland 1916
- History Discussion Forums
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
- Chapter length...
- A request. - new research/resources links
- Beta Project
- Entry-Level Sailing Ship Jobs
- suicide in ancient Rome
- To series or not to series...
- Trouble at the Canoe Club: Wallace Stevens in 1947
- Short story comp...historicals welcome...
- How long is too long?
- TIME FOR A LITTLE DRABBLE?
- Contractions in ancient Rome
- Anyone know a good book on the First Gulf War?
- In your historical era, how would someone prove their identity?
- Military Protocol: New officer takes command of sub unit
- Source for Historical Fiction Reps?
- WESTERN HUMOR CHALLENGE - January 09
- Future for Historicals
- how much can we assume an agent will know about history?
- How to select a novel to compare yours to in the query
- I need help with Pound to Franc exchange rate in the 1800's
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal (Victorian era - art history)
- Help with Imperial China?
- Good biography of Abraham Lincoln
- world war 2
- Four-in-hand carriages
- Bernard Cornwell Interview
- January SYW Challenge
- Tenses
- Nominated for Predators&Editors
- Need Name
- 1870s U.S. Tetanus and Money - Need Info
- Any Music Historians Out There?
- Book Giveaway
- Historical Romance Agent Collection
- Setting the Tone
- Golden rules for Historical Novels?
- Stickies
- Last Chance!
- Unknown word - Help!
- The Rules You Write By
- looking for a good geneology source
- Historical Synopsis
- Lots of Tattooes
- Undies in 1763...?
- Literary thieves
- Historical Accuracy vs Versimilitude
- In need of manly ideas...
- Pretty Darned Good New Historical Fiction
- FLIGHT magazine digitized, 1909 to 2005
- Reality in Writing
- Hotel room doors
- At what point did World War One become known as World War One?
- Anyone also writing Golden Age Tec novels?
- World War II Restrictions
- Resources please.
- would YOU object to this?
- Question about Post Civil War Soldiers
- Ancient stories in modern prose
- HF Poll
- Copper vs Bronze Age weapons
- time periods you've always wanted to write about
- ancient history in present tense.
- I Want to Read About
- Discussion of HBO's Rome at the Getty Villa
- Redhead Hate in 17th-18th Centuries?
- Predicting Spartan Male Spectator Behavior... (a tough egg to crack?)
- Mid-16th Century France in fiction and history
- I found an aweome website... to me anyway!
- Greek spellings v Latin
- Historical Fact--How True Do You Stay?
- First Austen, now Dante...
- New Genre and SYW
- The Villain Behind the Villain
- Glimmer Train - Fiction Open 3/31/09
- Genre Question
- AW Animal/Nature Story Contest
- 19th century english dishes
- English/Irish relations
- random question about knighting
- Maintaining sympathy in the face of brutality?
- Corporal Punishment in My Era
- A new challenge?
- Undergarments, women, Victorian
- Link to Greek Fauna and Flora
- Tips for making ideas happen...
- Facts in Historical Fiction
- Historicals and non-linear structure?
- Resource: Travel routes in historical times? (Spec. Marguerite from Paris to Navarre)
- What if you can't stay true to the facts?
- Query
- Pranks of the Period!
- Victorian Living
- Fields of Gold - A new beginning
- Changing POV in Omniscent (vs. Close-Third)
- Ancient Time and Measurements
- length of historical novel
- Tips
- Mycenaean swordfight
- Naming Customs (17th-18th Centuries)
- Wales
- Twilight Cruise
- Protestant marriages
- Historical Fiction Readers/Writers:
- Roman question
- Am I first on these historical people?
- Description
- Protestant and Catholic difference
- Left at the altar...would they chase after her?
- WWII Military & News of death
- Making sense where none exists...
- Boar hunting in the Ancient World
- Limits of obesiance in Judaism (IX cent CE)
- your time period and movies
- Final word on omniscient vs third-person
- Did he or didn't he?
- Visual inspiration for you, um, your character
- In sickness and in health
- Fibbing about a pregnancy
- Abe Lincoln - Vampire Hunter?
- Curse and swear words 1820s England
- Another English/British Question
- Sex in the 1800s
- Can we talk about remittance men?
- Maybe it'll be better than Troy...
- Pre-novel research?
- I'm done! I'm done! Woo hoo! I'm done!
- Victorian names
- history question
- The Fluidity of History?
- Death while traveling in the 16th century -- what happens to the body?
- HNS Conference
- Opening of Historical Fiction
- Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe
- POV headache
- wether London October
- Curiosity Question - Ghosts
- 422 BC, Greece. Age inaccuracy of two minor characters.
- Jumping years
- Historical Nonfiction
- Historical periods that never were
- Three weeks to HNS
- New Webnovel Available
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