Websites, blogs etc

[diamondlil]

Leave a link here to your blogs so that we can all come and visit!

[EC2]

Okay, I'll start the ball rolling.

WEBSITE - With links to various dedicated blogs
http://www.elizabethchadwick.com/

MAIN BLOG
http://livingthehistoryelizabethchadwick.blogspot.com/

[boswellbaxter]

My website (lots of pieces about 14th- and 15th-century English history, particularly the reign of Edward II and the Wars of the Roses)

http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/

My blog (pieces on historical fiction and history, and sometimes just me having fun)

http://susandhigginbotham.blogspot.com/

Bulletin board for discussion of the Wars of the Roses (Yorkists and Lancastrians, Ricardians and Anti-Ricardians all welcome)

http://warsoftheroses.proboards50.com/index.cgi

[Rowan]

My personal blog is Complex Femme (http://complexwoman.wordpress.com) and my book blog (which I haven't added to in a while) is Book Addicts Anonymous (http://bookaddictsanonymous.blogspot.com)

[Julianne Douglas]

My blog (historical fiction, with a focus on sixteenth century France):

Writing the Renaissance (htttp://writingren.blogspot.com)

[Ariadne]

My blog, which I've been horribly delinquent in updating:

http://readingthepast.blogspot.com

I also maintain the forthcoming books page on the Historical Novel Society website (the rest of the website too, but this is probably of greatest interest):

http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/forthcoming.htm
http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/forthcoming-2009.htm

[Kailana]

My blog, which I've been horribly delinquent in updating:

http://readingthepast.blogspot.com



Oh, I know who you are! I didn't know you were a member! Guess I missed something, which is not surprising. I have been living under a rock for months... And your blog is great! Those new release posts added about ten books to my TBR list... Anyway...

My blog is The Written World (http://myreadingbooks.blogspot.com). I have actually been a bit better at updating it lately! I also supposedly blog at Historical Tapestry with Marg... which reminds me I was supposed to post earlier! Yep, I have totally be under a rock lately... Sadly my memory is still there...

[diamondlil]

I should mention mine shouldn't I!

I blog at Reading Adventures (http://readingadventures.blogspot.com/) and about Historical Fiction at Historical Tapestry (http://historicaltapestry.blogspot.com/) with Kailana, Teddy Rose and Aneca who I noticed just joined the forum! Yay!

[Kailana]

I should mention mine shouldn't I!

I blog at Reading Adventures (http://readingadventures.blogspot.com/) and about Historical Fiction at Historical Tapestry (http://historicaltapestry.blogspot.com/) with Kailana, Teddy Rose and Aneca who I noticed just joined the forum! Yay!

I saw Aneca joined!

[Ariadne]

Oh, I know who you are! I didn't know you were a member! Guess I missed something, which is not surprising.

You haven't missed much... I'd joined a while back but was only posting actively on the previous board for the last couple of months. Just long enough to get addicted to it, in other words :D

I love Historical Tapestry - you guys are always posting about books I haven't yet read and really ought to.

[Catherine Delors]

My blog and website, below. Blog is 18th century art and history, historical fiction in books and film, French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette, and anything French that crosses my mind...

[michellemoran]

My website and blog are both in my signature. My blog is actually 2 blogs. On History Buff (http://michellemoran.blogspot.com/) I post excerpts and links to news stories about history (archaeological discoveries, anthropological finds).

On Historical Fiction Author Interviews (http://historicalfictionauthorinterviews.blogspot.com/), I post short interviews with authors. If you're an author who would like to be interviewed, feel free to email any time!

[MLS859]

I have a blog and a personal forum -- the links are below in my siggy!

Lynn

[Divia]

http://yabookmarks.blogspot.com/

News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.

[JaneConsumer]

The link to the very new Fuzzy History is in my signature.

[Melisende]

Blog ~ Women of History (http://womenofhistory.blogspot.com)
Website ~ Women of History (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/9329)

[Carla]

My blog is at: http://carlanayland.blogspot.com/. Book reviews, history (mainly, but not exclusively, early medieval), and anything else that interests me and/or the commenters. Usually updated once or twice a week.

My website is at: http://www.carlanayland.org/. Free downloads of my novels, plus history and book reviews.

[amyb]

Here is mine...

www.passagestothepast.blogspot.com

[xiaotien]

can't wait to peruse your links!

my main website containing
art / bio / novel excerpt :

http://cindypon.com

and my blog, updated quite frequently :

http://cindypon.blogspot.com

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[Lintalee]

My blog, History into Fiction (http://www.historyintofiction.com), explores the writer's craft of recreating history in novels and movies.

[Alaric]

Oh, what the hell:

http://stuffiread.wordpress.com/

I just set this up for something to do. :) I probably won't update it as often as some of you do yours, but oh well. I'll probably end up posting all the reviews on here too.

[diamondlil]

Welcome to blogging!

[chuck]

No...I don't have a website or blog....but enjoy visiting every body's mentioned website/blog....I came across a very interesting site at http:lostfortblogspot.com/ or just google the lost fort....great photos, Roman and Medieval archaeology emphasis.....author Gabriele Campbell has mentioned a number of our authors in her links....she also is a writer....all around a very interesting site....

[annis]

What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?!

[xiaotien]

oh, i def make time.
it helps me unravel my thoughts and
feelings and i love the community!
they really helped and cheered me on through
the entire road to publishing journey.

besides, i've been online journaling for
a decade or more now. def a habit by now.

[Rowan]

What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?!

I do very little at work....

[donroc]

No blog, but:

www.donaldmichaelplatt.com

www.myspace.com/donaldmichaelplatt

[diamondlil]

What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?!

It's how I choose to spend my spare time. I don't read at home anymore. I spend my time talking about reading instead, but I still have at least 3 hours a day of reading time, so it's not really to the detriment of reading!

You also become part of the community and therefore you start to feel that you are missing out on something if you don't update your own blog, and visit others!

[EC2]

I don't watch a lot of TV and I treat working on my blogs as a wind-down activity once the day job is done. This is the way I treat making movies of the novels and soundtracks too. If you imagine your life as a large glass bowl. Into this bowl you have to put several large stones and a load of smaller stones and gravel. For me, stuff like blogging, cross stitching, movie-making are the smaller stones and gravel. The big stones are family, day job and another stone called sundry unavoidables. If you put the small stones and gravel in first then there will be no room for the big stones, but if you put the big stones in first, you can trickle all the small stuff around them fill all the air pockets and little spaces - as I'm doing now by checking the forum while I have a mug of tea!

[cw gortner]

What I want to know is - how do you guys find time to blog?!

I invite authors to guest post, do interviews and try to write about stuff I think is important. I don't update my blog daily, like many people do, but that's less about time - blog entries don't take all that much time for me to write - than lack of inspiration. I also don't want my blog to turn into a Look-at-Me Zone. :eek: I didn't set out to do a blog specifically about me, but rather about the broader aspects of reading and writing historical fiction. Like EC, I often blog as a wind-down activity. I'm not a big TV watcher, either, though I am hooked on Ugly Betty and HBO's vampire series, True Blood.

[Divia]

My blog is one year old! Happy B day to me. :D

[michellemoran]

Happy Birthday Divia's blog!!!!! It's a very enjoyable read :D

[Divia]

Thanks! :)

[Margaret]

This isn't the usual sort of blog. I mostly use it to comment on what's new at HistoricalNovels.info - new reviews, new listings, new features, etc. The direct link to the blog is: http://www.historicalnovels.info/historical-novels-blog.html.

[cw gortner]

My blog is one year old! Happy B day to me. :D

Happy Birthday, Divia. Love your blog!:D

[stu1883]

Please visit my new blog.........

[Tanzanite]

Has anyone else been having trouble getting feeds? For the last several days, I'm only getting a few updated feeds a day, but when I go to blogs that I know update more frequently than that (you know who you are...) newer posts do exist that haven't appeared as updates.

[diamondlil]

The only blog I have trouble getting a feed from is Misfit's blog. Everyone else seems to be okay.

Do you use Google or Bloglines or some other feed collater?

[Tanzanite]

The only blog I have trouble getting a feed from is Misfit's blog. Everyone else seems to be okay.

Do you use Google or Bloglines or some other feed collater?

I am technology challenged enough to not know! All I have ever done is click on the little orange "feed" symbol on a blog and then selected RSS and clicked on "subscribe to this feed". The list appears under the Feeds tab (that's in the same window as your favorites list). When there is an update, the title of the blog is in bold.

If there is some better way to do this, I'm open for suggestions - I have no idea how Google or bloglines work. Is is something you have to set up an account for?

[diamondlil]

You would already have a google account for your blog, so you wouldn't need to set up a new one for Google reader. All it does is save all your feeds in one place and you can organise them a little bit.

bloglines you would have to set a new account for.

[Divia]

I didnt know Misfit has a blog.

I'm doing OK with my feeds.

[Tanzanite]

I decided to transfer my feeds into google - so far I like it much better and it has the added bonus that I can look at them during work!

[Tanzanite]

I have a couple of posts up on my new blog about our trip to London. I hope to add one every couple of days. I'm not just putting up pictures - I'm going to try and put information about what the pictures are and some history behind the places we went. Please stop by!

http://uk-mindthegap.blogspot.com/

[Vanessa]

The phrase 'mind the gap' always reminds me of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/neil-gaiman/neverwhere.htm)!

I enjoyed reading your blog, Tanzanite, and will have to remember to keep stopping by!

[sweetpotatoboy]

Sorry it didn't work out for us to meet up on this trip, Daphne.

Always interesting to read visitors' experiences of this country and London, in particular. The Tube does have its plus points, but it can be an absolute nightmare and it's ridiculously expensive compared to systems in other cities round the world. I don't use the trains much but you've got to be lucky and they have improved a lot recently. Some lines are notoriously more problematic than others.
Well, it sounds like you had a good time. Look forward to reading your other posts.

[Misfit]

I decided to transfer my feeds into google - so far I like it much better and it has the added bonus that I can look at them during work!

I am using google reader, and not just for blogs. You can use it for news sites, Amazon friends and more, just add the URL to your subscriptions and you're set. I hated it when Amazon changed the profile pages and didn't show you what your friends were reading/reviewing so now I can stay on top of it.

It's also handy for blogs or other sites with a lot of pics and graphics that take a while to load - the reader gets you right to the meat of things to read. I think the reader has a lot more bells and whistles than that but I'm not quite that advanced and too busy reading to play with it much ;)

[erzibetta]

I have two blogs:

My Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2001:

http://medusa.livejournal.com

I make the posts friends locked at the end of every month so there isn't much to see right now.

I also have my writing blog here:

http://www.versailles.org.uk/blog

I am working on a pair of novels about Marie Antoinette before she became Queen of France and as I have been blogging for so long, it made sense to post it online. I have had loads of really great feedback and now have a couple of interested agents as well although I am not sure that publication is a route that I want to follow. :)

[Celia Hayes]

I have re-posted a lot of my original essays (which were at a popular culture and mil-blog called The Daily Brief (http://www.ncobrief.com) to an Open Salon blog, here (http://open.salon.com/blog/sgt_mom).
or at the Historical Fiction sidebar to TheDeepening, here (http://historical-fiction.thedeepening.com/).

My main book website is www.celiahayes.com, and I have gathered a number of essays on historical events and personalities on this page. (http://www.celiahayes.com/EssaysLinks.htm) Enjoy.

[SonjaMarie]

Today is the 456th Anniversary of the day Lady Jane Grey was told she was Queen of England.

I've updated the website with 49 images of 32 items.

To see the newest images go to
http://www.bitterwisdom.com/ladyjanegrey/newest.html

Hope you enjoy them, and leave a guestbook msg if you're so inclined.

PS. Sadly it's getting harder and harder to find new images and so the next update may not be until Feb 12, 2010, instead of 0ct 12, 2009.

SM

[CrimsonPetal]

My blog is in my sig. I pretty much just started out recently and am loving it. I think I'm hooked.

I'm now going to go through the thread and add some your all's blogs to my Google and Bloglines accounts! :)

[robinbird79]

I have a blog, the link is in my sig. It is kind of just a whole bunch of anything that interests me, though most of it is about British history and historical fiction. :)

[stu1883]

My blog is in my sig. I pretty much just started out recently and am loving it. I think I'm hooked.

I'm now going to go through the thread and add some your all's blogs to my Google and Bloglines accounts! :)
I'd be grateful if you'd add me Christy? I will reciprocate, of course!

[robinbird79]

I've gone through and added many of these blogs! I already had a lot of them "on follow" already! Great stuff!

[TonyHays]

As I mentioned in the author announcements, I've started a new blog on writing historical mysteries and historical fiction in general. I'm new at it and trying to build a following. Please give it a look if you get a chance.

History, Mystery & More (http://historymysterymore.blogspot.com)

[N. Gemini Sasson]

Finally got around to getting my own domain name. Web site and blogs are in my sig line.

[SonjaMarie]

Today is the 456th Anniversary of the day Lady Jane Grey was executed.

I've updated the website with 73 images

To see the newest images go to
http://www.bitterwisdom.com/ladyjanegrey/newest.html

Hope you enjoy them, and leave a guestbook msg if you're so inclined.

SM

[Divia]

The Handpainted Lacquer Brooch is really cool.

[SonjaMarie]

The Handpainted Lacquer Brooch is really cool.

Yes, she's a beaut isn't she! I was the only one to bid on her and I was thankful for that cause the starting price was $49.99!

She's had others up for sale, as you can see, but one is enough for me, unless another really spectacular one shows up and I can't resist it. Sadly the scans the seller puts up aren't as big and doesn't show as much detail as I was able to get with my scanner.

SM

[Divia]

was this on ebay? I would be interested to see what else she has to offer.

[SonjaMarie]

was this on ebay? I would be interested to see what else she has to offer.

Oh yes, she has others then just Jane listed, the actual artist doesn't list but has a seller do it for her.

This is what is up currently, nothing like my brooch at the moment though, but you can see completed auctions by clicking on "completed listings":
http://shop.ebay.com/prompt07020/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50

SM

[cw gortner]

Finally got around to getting my own domain name. Web site and blogs are in my sig line.

Very late in responding to this, Gemini, but I'm excited to follow your adventures as you begin your journey into independent publishing. Your blog looks great, too! Please keep us updated.

[MoonPiece]

http://www.hf-connection.com/
A new site devoted entirely to Historical Fiction.. posts are to be submitted by YOU!

[N. Gemini Sasson]

Very late in responding to this, Gemini, but I'm excited to follow your adventures as you begin your journey into independent publishing. Your blog looks great, too! Please keep us updated.

Why thank you - I will. I'm feeling less confused with each passing day ;). As I learn, I hope to help others considering the process, too.

(And it was quite surreal signing copies this past week. Who, me? )

[N. Gemini Sasson]

http://www.hf-connection.com/
A new site devoted entirely to Historical Fiction.. posts are to be submitted by YOU!

Good idea and great look to the blog. I shall be checking in on it, MoonPiece.

[SarahWoodbury]

I started a blog last November, at the recommendation of some folks here :)

It's focus is on Dark Age and Medieval Wales and I post 3 times a week. Amazing how many possible topics there could be--I feel like I'm only getting started. Anyway, the page is in the tag line.

[fljustice]

My website has been around for awhile www.faithljustice.com (http://www.faithljustice.com), but I update it with info regularly. I just recently got into the blogging game with my Historian's Notebook (http://faithljustice.wordpress.com/) and am loving it! I've been posting interviews with historical fiction authors (Anita Diamant, Ursula K. Le Guin), "reel vs. real" articles about historical movies (Agora, Gladiator), and just history stuff that fascinates me (What really happened to the Great Library of Alexandria.) I had wanted to do something similar with my website, but it just wasn't flexible enough.

I'm building my sidebar with author websites and blogroll, so anyone who wants to be listed, let me know! Reciprocal links appreciated, but not required.

[SonjaMarie]

I've updated the Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum with new images, you can see the update here http://www.bitterwisdom.com/ladyjanegrey/newest.html

SM