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Howdie,
Found this site while searching google for Christian writer locations; I've been writing for a few years now and am hungry for some fellow ambassadors for Christ . . . hope I can meet some new faces here. :)

So yeah, just wanted to introduce myself. Anybody else write historical?
 
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eccl12.13 said:
Howdie,
Found this site while searching google for Christian writer locations; I've been writing for a few years now and am hungry for some fellow ambassadors for Christ . . . hope I can meet some new faces here. :)

So yeah, just wanted to introduce myself. Anybody else write historical?
Oh, I just remembered, if you like history you otta get with jesusfreak10537[jf].
 
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:wave: Hello, Friends!

I used to LOVE historical fiction and read everything in our little local library about Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scotts; as a kid I read every one of the "We Were There" series (We Were There At the Oklahoma Land Rush! for instance). You really had to know your subject, your era, clothing, culture -- all that stuff -- for your book to be considered historical fiction, and a clever reviewer could ruin you if s/he found a goof. Particularly with the romance genre, "historical" now simply means it took place at a different time with the same tired story-line (traditionally, boy meets girl > boy loves girl > boy loses girl > boy finds girl), same beautiful characters EXCEPT -- here, we're in Scotland and -- and -- and -- we wear animal hides! Now we're in South Africa only -- that is -- we don't have cars! Actually, I'm not complaining as a writer. It certainly makes it easier to write without spending long years doing the research.

I can't remember the author's name, but he wrote Island of the Blue Dolphins -- he wrote a number of historical novels for the junior high/middle school group. If you want a model for crafting a novel around genuine historical events, that author works. Good fortune & God's blessings! :angel: cb
 
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