Where Are You Now?

[Rowan]

I liked this thread from the other forum so I hope no one minds me starting it again. :o

I'm about to go to AD 47 to continue battling the Romans with the Britons and Boudica.

[Misfit]

1870's logging camp just north of Seattle, Washington Territory.

[pat]

I am in the court of Henry again. Thats Henry VIII. Poor man. Trying to get Katherin pregnant again with a boy after their first dying. She thinks she may be pregnant now....wonder what will happen!

[diamondlil]

I am in 12th century Oxford. I have just been ordered to investigate the death of Rosamund Clifford, mistress to King Henry!

[pat]

I am in 12th century Oxford. I have just been ordered to investigate the death of Rosamund Clifford, mistress to King Henry!

Sounds interesting! Name please!

[diamondlil]

The Serpents Tale by Ariana Franklin.

[leehow]

I am at the court of Louis the XIV

[diamondlil]

Hi Lee. Glad to see that you found us again.

[leehow]

Glad to be here, I was wondering where the new one would be.I found the link on the historical tapestry site.

[michellemoran]

I'm in seventeenth century France trying to unravel a murder.

[MLS859]

19th century London, dodging vampires. :eek:

[Tambo]

I'm whittling arrowshafts in 13th century Mongolia.

[donroc]

I liked this thread from the other forum so I hope no one minds me starting it again. :o

I'm about to go to AD 47 to continue battling the Romans with the Britons and Boudica.


I am in the middle of the Bubonic Plague in 17th century Amsterdam.

[Divia]

In Russia with Peter the Great

MLS859 what are you reading, it sounds interesting?

[chuck]

Old New York 1702 on the trail of a killer that goes by the name of the Masker...

[MLS859]

Divia -- the 4th book (When Twilight Burns) of the Gardella Vampire Chronicles by Colleen Gleason (for the few instances when I need to escape the medieval period!)

Lynn

[Divia]

OH! Excellent thanks so much! I'll have to look into that!

[Tambo]

I am in the middle of the Bubonic Plague in 17th century Amsterdam.

Remember to wash your hands before you come back.

[TerriPray]

I'm in 1787 Bristol...

[Melisende]

1720s - the Carribean

[Vanessa]

I've just taken part in a horse race in 1830, with a tragic conclusion. And George Stephenson has been trialling his Rocket!

[diamondlil]

19th century London, dodging vampires. :eek:

I have been intending to read the second book in this series for ages! One of these days I will get to it!

[MLS859]

I consider the Gardella books to be my "fun" reading - well, okay, reading is fun, in general, for me, no matter what -- but sometimes I need to take a break from "heavier" novels and just escape into something a bit lighter -- and where I don't have to keep all the "begats" straight!

Lynn

[tsjmom]

1200s France and a bit of England.

[Carla]

Fifteenth century Burgundy.

[MLE]

I'm in a cloth merchant's shop in Lyons, France, during the 16th century

[Melisende]

Have just left the Carribean (1720s) and will now be entering 10th-11th century England.

[Spitfire]

I am in America, on Fraser's Ridge in the 1700's. (if you haven't read the Fiery Cross yet note spoiler ahead!) Roger and Brianna have decided to stay, their son Jemmy can travel, and Ian came home from the Mohawks. Oooh, I have to run out and get the next book!!!

[nona]

1283, Wales' Llwelyen is dead and his brother on trial for treason, wife and children imprisoned and Edward I is trampling Wales into another English Shire to be given to his Eldest son.

[Spitfire]

1167, Normanday. William Marshall age 20 has just been knighted!

[sweetpotatoboy]

Still in Camulod in southern England in the 5th century, but now just pages away from discovering how this particular retelling of the Arthurian story comes to an end.

[Misfit]

The Greatest Knight I assume?

[TerriPray]

I'm in England, 1501

[chuck]

In Scotland 19888/1296....Time traveling with Clare/Isobel and Robert the Bruce....My first venture time traveling HF....The jury is still out.....

[diamondlil]

I'm in Victorian London, and I have just staked my first vampire in quite some time!! I am back!!!

[Misfit]

In Scotland 19888/1296....Time traveling with Clare/Isobel and Robert the Bruce....My first venture time traveling HF....The jury is still out.....


Barbara Erskine I believe?

[Spitfire]

The Greatest Knight I assume?

Yep...loving it so far! Men in mail...sigh!:o

[Spitfire]

Barbara Erskine I believe?

Is this the author or the name of the book? Have you read it Misfit? Would you recommend. I like the time travel bit!

[Rowan]

I am moving between three universes.

[Barbara Passaris]

I'm in Cleopatra's Egypt, loving Mark Antony. ;)

[MLS859]

England, 1456, with Isobel Ingoldesthorpe and John Neville.

Lynn

[Ariadne]

In 1907 Barcelona with a bunch of street musicians.

[Charm]

Okay, maybe its not historical fiction, but I'm in the 1960's driving across the United States

[pat]

Ermmm...London in 2004ish!

[Vanessa]

In Egypt in 1282 BC.

[Judith]

"cough" 2008 Charleston, South Carolina.

[Carine]

In Dublin 1167

[Vanessa]

I be in Shropshire at the beginning of the 19thC, that I be! I be going to my father's funeral on a dewy summer night, as t'is the custom around these parts. My brother has volunteered to be the Sin Eater, that he has.

I do be speakin' in a strange way, that I do!:D I do be thinkin' that I be takin' a long time to read this there book due to the dialect t'is written in.


(I'm trying to get my head round the dialect - I find myself trying the say the accent in my head, in fact I think I would understand it better if I said it out loud!! LOL)

[donroc]

Amsterdam, 1643 -- starting 2nd draft of sequel to ROCAMORA. My Spanish MC is experiencing his first encounter with ice skating on the frozen canals.

[EC2]

I be in Shropshire at the beginning of the 19thC, that I be! I be going to my father's funeral on a dewy summer night, as t'is the custom around these parts. My brother has volunteered to be the Sin Eater, that he has.

I do be speakin' in a strange way, that I do!:D I do be thinkin' that I be takin' a long time to read this there book due to the dialect t'is written in.


(I'm trying to get my head round the dialect - I find myself trying the say the accent in my head, in fact I think I would understand it better if I said it out loud!! LOL)

My dear, you do sound roightly to be speaking some form of Dorset or Wiltshire so 'ee do!
Still, it do sound nice. If it was written in a Nottinghamshire accent it'd be horrid!

Meanwhile, I am at the Tudor court in London and have just been appointed a holy fool to the dying young king Edward.

[Vanessa]

LOL. That's what it sounds like in my head, though - it's just the way it's written. Sort of garbled English. I have to read it twice to understand what it's saying sometimes. Flowers don't blossom, they blow in this book. I just can't get a Bristolian accent out of my head when I'm reading it, even though it's Shropshire.:o:D Perhaps it's country talk.

[diamondlil]

Forks, Washington.

About to get embroiled in vampire and werewolf politics I suspect.

[Alaric]

Nowhere at the moment. I finished the book on Putin's Russia the other day but rather than start another one I'm just going to wait for Lords of the Bow to arrive. It should get here tomorrow or Monday.

[Madeleine]

Just left the 12th Century with William Marshal's first daughter being born, yep The Greatest Knight again. When men were men....sigh!

[Leyland]

The Greatest Knight again. When men were men....


and sheep were ..... oh, nevermind! ;)

[Margaret]

I'm at sea, about to put into port at the island of Rhodes in the third century B.C., having just encountered a bunch of Cretan pirates. That's Gillian Bradshaw, The Sun's Bride.

[JMJacobsen]

Forks, Washington.

About to get embroiled in vampire and werewolf politics I suspect.

Oh dear....let me know what you think of that one. :D

[diamondlil]

It's very strange. It's incredibly readable (as most of her books are). I ended up reading 300 pages just last night, but I don't know that I am terribly thrilled with some of the events in the first half of the book at least.

[nona]

Kathrine and Henry V just arrived at Paris, Mad Charles and Isabeau is here as well, Parisans are not thrilled about Henry V being the King now but there is no riosting as of yet.

[SonjaMarie]

It's very strange. It's incredibly readable (as most of her books are). I ended up reading 300 pages just last night, but I don't know that I am terribly thrilled with some of the events in the first half of the book at least.

300 pages! Gosh! I'm happy if I can get 50 pages or more read in a day in one book! I think 300 pages would make my head explode!

SM

[nona]

lol, yeah I'm lucky if I get 30-50 a day. I've been known to read till 2 am and et a couple hundered pages in but it's got to be a great book otherwise the day catches up ad I'm out by 10 pm

[Misfit]

Monterey California 1844.

[Vanessa]

I'm in London in 1711.

[EC2]

Talking to Robert Dudley in the Tower of London

[chuck]

In 11th century Byzantium with Harold Haadrada and his Vikings......

[diamondlil]

In contemporary Edinburgh during a Festival, watching seemingly unconnected lives become connected as they unravel.

[Carla]

First century AD Roman Chester.

[EC2]

Waiting for Queen Mary Tudor to give birth to the non-existent baby.
(still working through The Queen's Fool)

[diamondlil]

I am in Thebes in Ancient Egypt

[Misfit]

Oslo, Norway, April 1940. The Germans have just invaded and taken control of the country.

[Susan]

I am in Thebes in Ancient Egypt

Me too! Perhaps we will meet up in the Great Hall!

[SonjaMarie]

I'm in the birthing pavillion in Thebes 1281BC.

SM

[Susan]

I'm in the birthing pavillion in Thebes 1281BC.

Sounds like we may also see you in the Great Hall!

[SonjaMarie]

Sounds like we may also see you in the Great Hall!

Yup! I might be done by Tues if not by tomorrow, Weds at the latest.

SM

[Vanessa]

I'm in prehistoric Europe during the Ice Age, which is between 25,000 and 35,000 years before now, with the Clan of the Cave Bear. My parents have died in an earthquake and I've been adopted by some Neanderthals, strange looking people they are, too!

[Madeleine]

I'm in Comtosook, Vermont, still reading Jodi Picoult's "Second Glance" (but almost finished), still finding rose petals everywhere.

[diamondlil]

China in the 1860s getting myself in more than I thought I was!

[nona]

King Henry VIII has just married Cathrine Parr Burghe Neville.

[donroc]

England, 1644, middle of Civil War.

[Carla]

Seventeenth century Persia.

[nona]

17th century, a Scots highwayman is stealing from the rich to keep his family alive but low and behold he got himself captured and it is not a man but a woman!...

[pat]

China, not long ago, in fact the start of Maos time.

[Catherine Delors]

Paris, 1800.

[Alaric]

1803 at the Battle of Assaye with Arthur Wellesley.

[lama]

I'm in Colorado Springs, 1925. Riding a boxcar!

www.lebutler.net

[SonjaMarie]

I'm in modern day Chicago with the Wizard Dresden about to go into a duel with a Red Court Vampire.

SM

[Madeleine]

I'm in South Carolina in "The Secret Life of Bees", I think in the 1950s or 60s so not really HF in the proper sense of the word!

[Catherine Delors]

I think the generally accepted limit for HF is 50 years. So yes, The Secret Life of Bees counts!

[Misfit]

1865, just leaving Omaha Nebraska on the Oregon Trail.

[SonjaMarie]

1533 France with Diane de Poitiers who is heading to the court of François I.

SM

[Telynor]

1720's London, in the political fray and dockside taverns, and in big trouble.

[Misfit]

After being shot with an arrow during an Indian attack on the Oregon Trail, I've disappeared into the river and reappeared back in 1975 in the pool where I originally disappeared. Silly fluff but jolly good fun all the same :p:o

[Madeleine]

I think the generally accepted limit for HF is 50 years. So yes, The Secret Life of Bees counts!

whew, only just!;)

[Ariadne]

I'm excavating the remains of an ancient Assyrian royal palace in 1914 Mesopotamia. Pretty darn hot out here!

[Misfit]

Leadville Colorado and the Silver Boom has just begun.

[Alaric]

Deciding what to read next!

[Alaric]

I'm with Genghis Khan's younger brother, Khasar, as he travels east into Jin China to try and find a way to break into their walled cities.

[cw gortner]

1400s Italy, in Rome with the Borgias!

[boswellbaxter]

Beach and hotel-room reading: 15th century England (paperback novel I don't mind getting sandy) and 19th-century Springfield, Illinois (old hardback novel I don't want to get sandy).

[Carine]

In Egypt with Nefertari telling me her story.

[Susan]

With Juliet on her visit to Guernsey.

[michellemoran]

I just finished my trip to Guernsey! Now I'm in the 12th century with Roger and Ida.

[Misfit]

I just finished my trip to Guernsey! Now I'm in the 12th century with Roger and Ida.

I have 40 some pages left with Roger and Ida and then it's off to write a reivew (always the hardest part).

[eclecticreader10]

17th century American colonies in the Salem witch trials.

[annis]

I'm resolutely not reading any reviews of EC's "Time of Singing" while I wait for my copy to arrive!

At the moment I'm frantically scrambling down the rugged hill of an obscure Greek island, having failed in my attempt to substitute a fake mummified saint for a real one kept in a hilltop church, and hotly pursued by a ruthless group of other relic hunters- oouch, just got shot in the leg by a crossbow bolt!

(Pip Vaughan-Hughes, "Relics" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Relics-Pip-Vaughan-Hughes/dp/0752881248))

[chuck]

It's 1786 living in a small village in Rufford Maine, practicing midwifery.....

[Alaric]

About to begin the Battle of the Badger's Mouth against the Jin Dynasty with Genghis Khan's Mongols.

[Toelistangan]

just finished with The Boleyn Inheritance, now I'm back to 40 BC with Anthony and Cleopatra

[Vanessa]

I'm in Elizabethan England trying to make my way as a painter.

[EC2]

I'm about to go to France in the dangerous post revolution, hoping to become involved in the spy network. I have told my mother I am going to sketch some famous tapestries, little does she know....

[Volgadon]

In the backstreets of Odessa, turn of the century and no I won't go into details.. yet.

[Madeleine]

In the ficititious village of Ledwardine, in the county of Herefordshire, in Phil Rickman's "The Fabric of Sin" - a modern book although it does feature a Templar church.

[TLee]

Welsh Marches 1126

[SonjaMarie]

Early 1800s with the Darcy's trying to solve a mystery. The Darcy's are the very same Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from "Pride and Prejudice".

SM

[Carine]

In Ludlow Castle 1148

[Vanessa]

Heading towards Naples in the 18thC, waffling on about volcanos, in Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover.

[Alaric]

On my way back to England with Midshipman Hornblower, after he captured a French ship in the Bay of Biscay.

[pat]

In Ludlow Castle 1148



I enjoyed being in Ludlow Castle! I am now in Portugal in the '70s. Cant wait to leave! I am about to go to Ancient Egypt, or modern Ireland!

[Carla]

Lindow Moss, Cheshire, in the Iron Age when Lindow Man was sacrificed there and in the present day when he was discovered and examined.

[chuck]

Lindow Moss, Cheshire, in the Iron Age when Lindow Man was sacrificed there and in the present day when he was discovered and examined.

Please Carla....The name of the novel....Really sounds interesting.....

[Carla]

Please Carla....The name of the novel....Really sounds interesting.....

It isn't a novel, though it's as gripping as many and more so than some :-) It's an account of the discovery and the investigations by one of the members of the archaeological team. Citation details: Brothwell D. The bog man and the archaeology of people. British Museum Press, 1986, ISBN 0-7141-1384-0.

There's also a bit about it in the current post on my blog (see sig file) - I was reading the book as part of researching the possibility of human sacrifice in early Anglo-Saxon England.

By the way, does anyone know if Lindow Man has been done in fiction? Surely by now.... Bernard Cornwell borrowed some of the details, like the fox fur armband, for the sacrifice to protect the magical cauldron in his Arthur trilogy (Book 2 or Book 3, can't remember which), and no doubt others have done the same, but I wonder if anyone has tried to do Lindow Man himself?

[MLS859]

1486, England.

[Ariadne]

I'm still in 12th-century Castile with the daughter and son-in-law of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor herself just made an appearance.

[SonjaMarie]

London Oct 1888, yup Jack the Ripper is on the loose.

SM

[Catherine Delors]

18th century Virginia (non fiction, the Hemingses, great read.)

[Vanessa]

In the middle of a menage a trois with Sir William Hamilton, Lady Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson, in Palermo, in The Volcano's Lover by Susan Sontag. This book waffles on a bit, but also has some interesting parts including facts which I never knew about Emma Hamilton! It's a challenge but I'm persevering.

[nona]

1335 BCE, Nefertiti is Pharaoh, her daughter is Queen of Egypt. Riverside Palace was destroyed by Plague then was abandoned for Thebes.

[pat]

Hobart, Tassie in the late 70's early 80's!

[nona]

New York having beakfast with Aron Lightner of the Talamasca, talking about the real ghost stories of New Orleans.

[diamondlil]

Hobart, Tassie in the late 70's early 80's!

Which book is this Pat?

[eclecticreader10]

In the 16th century with the Tudors.

[Vanessa]

I'm in two time frames in Cambridge - one if the 1940s and the other in the 1990s. I seem to be visiting graves at the moment!

[SonjaMarie]

Egypt, 1799, with Ethan Gage trying to solve the mystery of the Book of Thoth.

SM

[Carine]

Egypt, 1799, with Ethan Gage trying to solve the mystery of the Book of Thoth.

SM

That sounds very interesting SonjaMarie ! How do you like it so far ?

[Susan]

In 1173 in the guest chamber at Loches Castle in the Loire Valley. Eleanor and I are awaiting the wrath of her husband. (In real life I am procrastinating grading papers, but I'd rather be at Loches Castle!)

http://www.a-castle-for-rent.com/castles/images/loches2.jpg

[Misfit]

In 1173 in the guest chamber at Loches Castle in the Loire Valley. Eleanor and I are awaiting the wrath of her husband. (In real life I am procrastinating grading papers, but I'd rather be at Loches Castle!)[/IMG]


:D:D I'd be procrastinating about grading papers myself. I took a long weekend to read it even though I could have done better things. Scrub the tub, wash the windows, replace the blinds, shampoo the carpet. No, I read.

Thanks for the picture of the castle.

[SonjaMarie]

That sounds very interesting SonjaMarie ! How do you like it so far ?

I'm really enjoying it. It's the sequel to "Napoleon's Pyramids", and I'm nearly down with it. The author is actually from my state, which is nice too!

SM

[Susan]

Thanks for the picture of the castle.

You're welcome. Perhaps when I have some time I'll post some photos and information on the castles in Devil's Brood. I think it is interesting to learn about actual settings.

[Alaric]

1135, and Stephen is about to snatch the throne off Empress Maude.

[SonjaMarie]

France, late 1600s, learning about the Affair of the Poisons (nonfiction).

SM

[diamondlil]

I am in suburban London having just run away from my life in Australia.

[pat]

I am in suburban London having just run away from my life in Australia.


Title and author please! (and if it is good!!!)



I am in ancient Egypt.

[diamondlil]

Marshmallows for Breakfast by Dorothy Koomson.

I can not begin to tell you the ways this book echoes certain scenes from my own life.

[pat]

Library has it, but it is checked out so I will have to wait!

[Vanessa]

I've read and enjoyed Dorothy Koomson's My Best Friend's Girl and do have the Marshmallow one on my TBR pile.

[diamondlil]

I loved My Best Friend's Girl. It was a mistake to read it on the train, because I had to try very hard to control my crying, but such a good read!

[Carine]

My Best Friend's Girl is another one that's on my TBR pile ! Glad to hear from you all that it's a good read though.

[diamondlil]

At the moment I am on a boat journeying between the UK and my new life in India. I am travelling as a paid chaperone to a couple of girls and a very strange young man.

[sweetpotatoboy]

I'm currently on a hospital ship travelling from France to South Africa in the middle of the First World War.

[Alaric]

1144 as Maude and Stephen's war pointlessly rumbles on.

[lama]

In a prison in Braintree Massachusetts in 1909!
www.lebutler.net

[Vanessa]

In late 19thC London at the house of Soames Forsyte, who can't understand why his wife is not particularly fond of him.

[SonjaMarie]

London, Feb 1587, a few days after Mary Queen of Scots has been executed.

SM

[Vanessa]

I'm in Birmingham, UK, in 1984 wandering around a shopping centre, playing detective.

[SonjaMarie]

2060 NY, solving a murder with Lieutenant Eve Dallas.

SM

[michellemoran]

29 BC, Ancient Rome.

[Ellie]

1921 In Surrey trying to catch a serial killer.

[KingEricCantona7]

Just outside Paris in 1140.

[diamondlil]

I am in a nursing home in the late 1990s reminiscing about the events that took place at an English country home in the 1910s and 1920s.

[Alaric]

Minorca, Spain in 1800 with Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin as they begin to set sail on the Sophie for the first time.

[Carine]

Wales in 1206

[Madeleine]

Alternating between England and France in the 12th century ("A Place Beyond Courage").

[Margaret]

In Constantinople during the misconceived and misbegotten Fourth Crusade.

[Vanessa]

In London - I've just slipped on a chip, found myself face down in some overflowing rubbish, and ended up in bed recovering from a back injury. I've now decided to write my life story as I don't know quite what else to do with myself.

[EC2]

My Hurricane fighter plane has just crash landed in the sea after being hit in a dog fight and I am in a lot of trouble and I may drown....
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/patrick-bishop/good-war.htm

[Ellie]

In London in the 2000's somehere.

[Ellie]

Now I'm time travelling between modern Wales and Rome and ancient Wales and Rome.

[Ellie]

Now I'm in Norman occupied England in 1066.

[diamondlil]

I have been spending most of my time at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV.

Now I have moved back in time to the medieval Welsh courts

[Andromeda_Organa]

Not HF, but just finished "Running out of Time" a book about a girl who lives on a historical preserve and gets sent out into the real world when a plague of diphtheria strikes her village.

[Vanessa]

In 1831, flitting backwards and forwards between York and Manchester with the Morlands.

[Caveowl]

In "Harpoon," C. Nicol informed me much about 1860s Japan's civil war, and I enjoyed his characters.* Concur with Amazon reviews.* From a list of perhaps a dozen novels I've read set in historical Japan, "Harpoon"* would rate a distant second to "Shogun."Just started Shellabarger's "Captain from Castile," but, I'm feeling squimish about taking on the Aztecs.* Also, just read the introductory scene in Elmer Kelton's "Stand Proud."* West Texas from 1860s until past turn of century.* The trial of a tough old cattle baron.

[boswellbaxter]

Nice to have you here, Caveowl!

[Misfit]

Nice to have you here, Caveowl!

Ditto. Are you the same Caveowl that I've seen on the HF discussions at Amazon?

[Divia]

Ms. Monroe is finally becoming a big time star. I'm reading My Story by Marilyn Monroe. Its so interesting! And so sad!

[Caveowl]

Thanks for the welcome BoswellBaxter, and yes, Misfit, I'm grateful someone at Amazon HF suggested this much richer site.

[SonjaMarie]

Victorian London 1888.

SM

[diamondlil]

Thanks for the welcome BoswellBaxter, and yes, Misfit, I'm grateful someone at Amazon HF suggested this much richer site.

Welcome Caveowl. Glad to have you here.

[Divia]

Victorian London 1888.

SM

Oh! What are you reading?

[SonjaMarie]

Oh! What are you reading?
A nonfiction book on Jack the Ripper, sorry to get you excited! :(

SM

[Vanessa]

In London in 1801.

[Ellie]

England 1932, a young girl has just been brutally killed.

[Carla]

A Viking settlement in tenth-century Scotland.

[Vanessa]

I'm in Egypt on the trail of a lost child.

[Susan]

In Martel, France at Hal's deathbed.

[diamondlil]

I am travelling south through Italy, bearing bad news to a man who may or may not have been part of a plot against the newly appointed Emperor Vespasian.

[AuntiePam]

Very prosaic -- I'm on the shore of Long Island just after WWII, investigating a suspicious drowning. I'm surrounded by rich folks and fishermen. They barely tolerate each other. :)

[michellemoran]

In London at the end of the 14th century.

[Susan]

I'm in Fotheringay Castle about a week after the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

[Madeleine]

I'm now in the Cotswolds with "Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye".

[Kasthu]

In London at the end of the 14th century.

Which book are you reading? I'm always looking for good medieval English HF.

[AuntiePam]

I'm in Gulkote with Ash and Sita in 18-something.

[SonjaMarie]

Recently I've been in Modern Day Chicago (fiction) and Germany/Italy (nonfiction). I'm currently going between Italy and Switzerland and a few other places (nonfiction).

SM

[chuck]

I'm in Western Pennsylvania 1790's, making a new liquor concoction called whiskey and dealing with backwoods types who are very nasty......

[Madeleine]

In mid-1940s Scotland in "Cross Stitch".

[Eigon]

In Washington, slightly in the future, sitting out a power cut in freak weather conditions caused by global climate change - Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[EC2]

Sitting in my bed in my house in Rwanda, having a hot flush and pondering the cakes I am going to make for future events.
(back to historical fiction next time around).

[diamondlil]

I am in Egypt during the early days of WWI. Not only do we have to worry about the war but there is also an underground independence movement causing some issues.

[Leyland]

On the HMS Terror trapped for two years in Arctic ocean ice and some monstrous murderous creature that must be a yeti has just chased a sailor all around the ship's spars and rigging and then around some icebergs! The sailor didn't get eaten ... this time.

[Susan]

I'm in an attic in Delft mixing paints.

[Vanessa]

Is it the Girl with the Pearl Earring who is doing the mixing by any chance?????:D

[SonjaMarie]

France 1515, with Anne Boleyn at 9 years old. Louis XII has just died.

SM

[Susan]

Is it the Girl with the Pearl Earring who is doing the mixing by any chance?????:D

Indeed it is!

[EC2]

I'm on the foredeck of the Aquila, a Roman ship. There's fog, it's winter and I am very tired.

[Misfit]

19C India, escorting the Maharajah's two sister's and their wedding party to their new husband.

[Vanessa]

I'm in 1470 with Elizabeth of York. I've just encountered some sort witchcraft/voodoo rictual in Westminster Abbey.

[Catherine Delors]

Back from Christmas break and spending some quality time in 1760s French countryside (non-fiction.) In my own fictional story, my characters seem to have a few tricks up their sleeves...

[Susan]

In Winchester about 3 weeks after the Battle of Hastings awaiting to see what William the Bastard will do.

[Andromeda_Organa]

In China with Madame Mao

[Alaric]

With Harry Flashman as he hoodwinks Washington's best, including Honest Abe, into thinking he is a spy working for the Royal Navy instead of a captured slave-trading pirate.

[Vanessa]

In modern day Cornwall fishing with a man called Sam and a small child he found abandoned on a beach. I have a feeling this book is going to turn out to be a ghost story.

[Dani]

I am In the Palace of Judah it is 886 BC
Book: Dark Hour Book on of the Serpent Moon trilogy

[chuck]

Hanging around the seedy streets and hovels of 1663 London and practicing to be a "wanna be" Doctor of Medicine.....

[sweetpotatoboy]

I have just been in modern-day England and Wales, but I have been having visions of the Holy Grail and my dead mother. Go figure.

[Vanessa]

I'm in the late 13thC, I'm just travelling across the desert towards Persia and would you believe it, I've lost my camels! What's a girl to do?:rolleyes::D

[SonjaMarie]

1536 England with a 3 year old Lady Elizabeth, who wonders why she is no longer called Lady Princess.

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[Alex Worthy]

In 1953 Soviet Union tracking down a serial child killer.

[SonjaMarie]

In 1790s France during the Revolution (NF).

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[diamondlil]

I am alternating between Vanuatu and Sydney with a semi retired millionaire.

[Kasthu]

I'm in 19th century Brooklyn with Harriet and Isabella, the two Beecher sisters.

[Susan]

In Canterbury doing some embroidery.

[Kasthu]

I'm in 19th century Brooklyn with Harriet and Isabella, the two Beecher sisters.

In addition, I'm simultaneously in 1659 England with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles's The Black Pearl.

[Misfit]

San Francisco 1906. The earth just shook - a whole lot.

[Vanessa]

I seem to be flitting between Prague and New York in the 1940s, 1960s and the more present day.

[EC2]

In the nunnery at Godstow which has been taken over by Eleanor of Aquitaine and her mercenaries. We're all snowed in and there's a body in the ice house.

[Leo62]

In Canterbury doing some embroidery.

Hey so am I. What a coincidence! :p

[Alaric]

Spanish-Portuguese frontier, 1811.

[Leo62]

Finished my stint of Kentish embrodiery, now off to the 1850's Arctic. Brrrrrrrr!

[Amanda]

In Canterybury Cathedral.....Becket has just been murdered.

And in Medieval China with a sisterhood who have just celebrated a wedding.

[Vanessa]

I'm in Chicago in 1907 embarking on an affair with an architect (good job he's rich and handsome, that's all I can say!!).

[Ludmilla]

I'm with Wellington's infamous army, and the Battle of Waterloo has just begun.

[Susan]

I'm in Cambridge, England in 1171 trying to figure out who is murdering children.

[nona]

in a Turkish harem, trying to escape to the English Embassy

[Volgadon]

Watching the clouds of dust in the valley, trying to figure out why Jehu is riding so furiously towards me, is it peace or is it war?

I showed some friends round some sights today, took them to the Jezreel Valley, to where what little remains of Ahab's palace has been found.

[Misfit]

1899 Hole in the Wall, Wyoming Territory

[Nefret]

11th century France (with a Jewish family).

[michellemoran]

18th century France, the Revolution.

[chuck]

1415 Normandy France ...with my Brothers in Arms doing reconnaissance in the pitch of night and Whistling "Robin Hood's Lament" to stay in contact with each other.....BTW....anybody ever heard of RH's Lament?....if there is one it must be an old and oft played tune.......

[Volgadon]

There is, but it is 20th century, the 1950s, that is.

[annis]

Posted by Chuck
with my Brothers in Arms doing reconnaissance in the pitch of night and Whistling "Robin Hood's Lament" to stay in contact with each other.....BTW....anybody ever heard of RH's Lament?....if there is one it must be an old and oft played tune.......
Chuck, I wondered that too, so I had a hunt and found this Q & A from BC's website:

Q: Bernard (if I may be so bold) Problem with fiction based on fact,is Robin Hoods lament as in Azincourt fact or fiction. I believe Green sleeves is oldest English song. Most sincerely Bob Shears.

A: It's fiction. I'm sure there were songs about Robin Hood (he became famous in the century before Agincourt), but I don't know them. Greensleeves? We have much older songs, including The Agincourt Carol written just after the battle, for which we have music and words ('Our king went forth to Normandy, In might and grace and chivalry . . . ').

Btw , I'm interested to read that he may be heading back to Revolutionary America for the novel following the fifth Uhtred book due out later this year.

*Edit Consolation prize; "Marian's Lament" from an old favourite, the TV series "Robin of Sherwood". I was delighted to pick up a DVD of the first series last year-- it's been reissued.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHyPWRGv-Oo

[chuck]

Annis....Thanks for the interesting BC Q&A....I would love to listen BC and Robert Low's take on writing about fact or fiction.....Both seem very approachable and have a terrific sense of wit and humor......Very glad to hear BC's 5th Uhtred is on the horizon...And Low's new Oathsworn third should be out soon....I heard your reading "Needle in the Blood"....don't mean to put a blight on it....but I could not get into it....did not like the up, close and personal approach with Odo....He will always be a Robber/Baron in my eyes...might have had his warm and fuzzy moments....but......I might give the book another go; later....The author has a interesting style of writing.....BTW...I loved "Robin of Sherwood" series....Ray Winstone character is a favorite.....the lovely Marion's Lament......

[annis]

Yeah, I haven't quite finished "Needle in the Blood" yet, so will reserve judgement till I reach the end. The story is beautifully written and I feel as if I'm actually there. The love scenes are strikingly elemental rather than prurient, but Odo as romantic hero? He always struck me a classic Mk2 Viking - it's all about the plunder :) He appears from the various chronicles as a man with an eye for the main chance, and certainly the uncle from hell- he didnt hestitate to pit his nephews against each other when William died, with his own interests at heart. Somehow i can't see a mere English female with no rank or property to recommend her getting in the way of his ambition.

But I guess that's the role of fiction- to play with different possiblities and interpretations, and I've always been rather intrigued by the mysterious Aelfgyva, who is the only woman in the Bayeaux tapestry to have been named, though no-one has been totally able to identify her or her role in events.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Aelggyva_Edwige.JPG

[Misfit]

but Odo as romantic hero?

I don't know which book I picked it up from, but I've always envisioned Odo as a very well fed, pompous clerical. It might be from one of Valerie Anand's books on the period.

[diamondlil]

I am in New York. It's summer, it's 2058 and someone is killing young people.

[Vanessa]

I'm in Centralia, on a Canadian Air Force Base, in the 1960s meeting some new neighbours. Having a bit of a shin-dig with them later!

[Nefret]

In England. King Henry VIII is trying to divorce Queen Katharine.

[LoveHistory]

I'm somewhere in Italy. In the Castle of Otranto.

[SonjaMarie]

Modern Day Seattle with a woman who cleans up crime scenes and can see and talk to ghosts.

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[Madeleine]

New York, in "The Seduction of Water".

[SonjaMarie]

Pompeii AD 59 (16 years before the eruption of Vesuvius), nonfiction.

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