Hiya,
I'm Chatterbox, aka Suzanne. My addiction to HF dates back to the age of 8 or 9, when a teacher at my school in England gave me books by Heyer and Plaidy. (My mother blinked a few times, looked slightly surprised, but to her credit said absolutely nothing when I proceeded to spend all my pocket money on 'grownup' books from then on). Read "Katherine" at 10, GWTW at 11 or 12, and have never stopped reading...
I have always dreamed of writing HF novels (when I ran out of books to read on family trips, I started trying to write my own, full of the usual cliches. (Argh, can't get accent marks functioning...) These days I do make my living from writing, but as a journalist. I'm working on my first narrative NF book now, and have another proposal ready to make the rounds once the publisher signs off on the work-in-progress.
Arrived here courtesy of Misfit!
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- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3066
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: North Carolina
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Welcome, Chatterbox! Glad to have you here.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Hi Suzanne
Hello and welcome - hope you enjoy it here!
Hello and welcome - hope you enjoy it here!
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
- Anna Elliott
- Compulsive Reader
- Posts: 579
- Joined: March 2009
Hi and welcome! It's great to meet you!
Author of the Twilight of Avalon trilogy
new book: Dark Moon of Avalon, coming Sept 14 from Simon &Schuster (Touchstone)
http://www.annaelliottbooks.com
Howdy and welcome aboard. Don't be shy n post.
News, views, and reviews on books and graphic novels for young adult.
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Welcome and enjoy.
Bodo the Apostate, a novel set during the reign of Louis the Pious and end of the Carolingian Empire.
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Hello my Amazon friend and glad you're hear. It can be major time suck though...
Hello my Amazon friend and glad you're hear. It can be major time suck though...
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
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- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1667
- Joined: April 2009
- Location: New York