Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this site and am glad to be here. For several years now I've been researching and writing a historical novel set during the Irish Famine of the 1840s. My first edited draft is nearing completion within the next few months, and I hope to start to flesh out a rewrite following that. I'm working on ways to integrate contemporary historical accounts (journals, newspaper articles, workhouse documents, etc.) with the fictional chapters, perhaps by way of prelude to each chapter. Anyway, I'm delighted to be here among like-minded writers similarly interested in aspects of historical fiction.
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Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
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- Scribbler
- Posts: 8
- Joined: March 2017
- Currently reading: Lincoln in the Bardo
- Interest in HF: I'm writing a historical novel set during the Irish Famine in the 1840s
- Favourite HF book: The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
- Preferred HF: 19th century New York
- Location: Lower Hudson Valley, New York
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
Hi and welcome.
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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- Scribbler
- Posts: 8
- Joined: March 2017
- Currently reading: Lincoln in the Bardo
- Interest in HF: I'm writing a historical novel set during the Irish Famine in the 1840s
- Favourite HF book: The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
- Preferred HF: 19th century New York
- Location: Lower Hudson Valley, New York
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
Thanks, Misfit. What are you working on these days?
- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5860
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
Hi and welcome, good luck with the book!
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
Hi. I only read, I do not write.tdkerst wrote:Thanks, Misfit. What are you working on these days?
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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- Scribbler
- Posts: 8
- Joined: March 2017
- Currently reading: Lincoln in the Bardo
- Interest in HF: I'm writing a historical novel set during the Irish Famine in the 1840s
- Favourite HF book: The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl
- Preferred HF: 19th century New York
- Location: Lower Hudson Valley, New York
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
Thanks for the welcome, Madeleine.
Misfit, I love to sit before the fireplace with a good book on these lingering winter days. Even though we no longer have a cat.
Misfit, I love to sit before the fireplace with a good book on these lingering winter days. Even though we no longer have a cat.
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
The cat-in-lap makes it perfect, even without a fireplace.tdkerst wrote:Thanks for the welcome, Madeleine.
Misfit, I love to sit before the fireplace with a good book on these lingering winter days. Even though we no longer have a cat.
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
- Margaret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2440
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I can't answer this in 100 characters. Sorry.
- Favourite HF book: Checkmate, the final novel in the Lymond series
- Preferred HF: Literary novels. Late medieval and Renaissance.
- Location: Catskill, New York, USA
- Contact:
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
And how we who write do love the non-writing readers! Sometimes it seems like everyone in the world is working on a novel, to the extent that passionate readers start to seem like an endangered species.Hi. I only read, I do not write.
Browse over 5000 historical novel listings (probably well over 5000 by now, but I haven't re-counted lately) and over 700 reviews at www.HistoricalNovels.info
- 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
Re: Hello from the Lower Hudson Valley of New York
Hear, hear!Margaret wrote: And how we who write do love the non-writing readers! Sometimes it seems like everyone in the world is working on a novel, to the extent that passionate readers start to seem like an endangered species.
I much prefer to read comments from the reader's perspective, even if the person commenting writes. It's their reading tastes and reactions that I find fascinating.
And useful. How else will I find my next good read?