tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post2897392005427971016..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Turning History into Fiction - Katherine RobertsKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-49085192240810754702018-05-22T09:12:47.762+01:002018-05-22T09:12:47.762+01:00An interesting review of approaches which I think ...An interesting review of approaches which I think applies equally to adult hist-fic. Thanks - Ali BAliBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611113709872287863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-39056475072119654122018-05-21T20:59:20.710+01:002018-05-21T20:59:20.710+01:00Thank you, Umberto - I'm so glad your granddau...Thank you, Umberto - I'm so glad your granddaughter enjoyed 'Bone Music'!<br /><br />Yes, it's easy to get carried away with the research, isn't it? And I find it interesting how historians change their minds about events and characters over time. I am trying to research St Katherine of Alexandria at the moment... but did she even exist? At one stage, the Church wiped her name from history. I think she has been reinstated now, though.Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-53071067735803114522018-05-21T20:08:44.256+01:002018-05-21T20:08:44.256+01:00Thanks for this post - of special interest to me. ...Thanks for this post - of special interest to me. One of my granddaughters loves "Bone Music" which I gave her as a birthday gift. I relish writing historical fiction, especially the research - not necessarily in the conventional sense. I immersed myself - to nearly drowning - in the Elizabethan and European, early modern era research for "Ophelia Rising," for example - in which I melded Hamlet and history. Reading scholarly histories and source materials, I discovered much that has been overlooked or distorted in today's ideas about that era - as I imagine you have discovered about other eras where you've traveled in your researches. Umberto Tosihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939504157464234443noreply@blogger.com