Tag: historical fiction
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Three for the Month (August 2021)
After another month off in my series, and back I am with my reading suggestions in what is a semi-hiatus summer. I took on…
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Three for the Month (December 2019)
After Medieval history in November (rewarded by S2 of Knightfall just landed on Netflix, something that makes me cringe but I can’t void watching…
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Three for the Month (October 2019)
This month I am slightly late to announce my three selected books, but the good thing is that I have already started reading them.…
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Three for the Month (September 2019)
In these difficult (in the sense of super-busy) days at work, it is never an easy task to find time to read a new…
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Magazines that publish historical fiction
If you believed (as I did) that historical fiction is by nature more the domain of long novels than short stories (or flash fiction),…
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Netflix’s Roman Empire Season 3: The Mad Emperor
I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you…
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018). A review.
I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the…
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Teaser Tuesday (16 Oct)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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Teaser Tuesday (18 Sept)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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Historical Fiction Series -what’s on my plate in fall 2018
After a few months of intense historical research and fieldwork for my articles -more about that in future posts- I’ve decided I need a break…
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Teaser Tuesday (19 Jun)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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WWW Wednesday: 13 June 2018
The WWW Wednesday meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. It’s a great way to do…
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Teaser Tuesday (8 August)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read…
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(More) historical fiction. Forthcoming reviews
In the last six months, for a series of reasons I’ll talk about in a future post, I’ve been watching a lot of historical…
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Roman Empire: Reign of Blood – (a lot of) history in my fiction
During the (rather few) moments NaNoWriMo let me free to do something else, I’ve started watching a new series now premiering on Netflix. Historical…
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Worldbuilding for historical fiction – travels
That worldbuilding is complicated and time-consuming is something every creator of fiction, no matter the media adopted, knows well. Creating detailed and coherent fantasy…
