Dear friends, I just found the new batch of on-line reviews at the HNS website. Many thanks to Pamela Cleaver for her wonderful words about my novel,...
The HNS Newsletter (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HNSNewsletter/)now has over 600 subscribers! The Newsletter reflects the books that the newspapers choose to...
Any other e-writers attending the SLC First American Con of HNS? Would anyone else like to get together informally at some point during the event and talk?...
Hi, all. I'm de-lurking in hopes of drumming up a sympathetic audience for my Author Reading at the HNS Conference this weekend. On Sunday at 10:30 a.m. I will...
Lawrence: I'd be delighted to come! And if you'd return the favor, please join me at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 17th (I know, I know, it's real early) to hear...
I have never got up the nerve to read my own stuff, so I commend you both. They should be read by an English person, and I'm a Texan. I'm just looking forward...
Patricia: This is my first time reading to strangers - I did a "St. Mark Authors" night at the parish in Berkeley where I'm clergy on staff, but St. Marks...
Recently I have written a historical fiction about the passengers traveling in 1847 on a doomed steamship. Last week I received an offer from the local...
Hello John! :) Here's my take on it: What you may have is a book of 'creative non-fiction.' (Which happens to be a hot seller at the moment.) Because you have...
Just in case anyone interested missed the discussion about Georgette Heyer on BBC Radio 4 today (Friday 15th April), you can hear it (where-ever you are in the...
Thanks for your comments and the suggestion to label the book a creative non-fiction. I haven't decided yet but I will probably include the table of contents...
Hello Fellow HNSers, I have a question...In my current WIP, I base my hero on Sir Richard Burton. This is one of the few forums where I don't feel the need to...
Karen, It's too bad you couldn't come to SLC. It was a fabulous conference. Three cheers for Ann, Claire and Sarah! If your publisher won't attribute the quote...
Hi everyone! I'm back - exhausted, but happy. And would just like to take this public opportunity to thank Ann, Sarah and Claire for all their hard work...
Karen Be careful, because translations are copyrighted, too, so even though a poet can fall under the "dead guy rule", the translation might be too current for...
I agree with what's been said about your project, John. Some of the most commerically successful biographers have used their imaginations to come up with...
Hi Richard, good to hear from you :-) You wrote: Anyone else interested in Ridley Scott's new epic Kingdom of Heaven? There are lots of clips, trailers,...
I am sorry to be so negative, but there is no "dead guy rule" in the United States. It is entirely a question of years and dates of the actual work that you...
Hi there, It's so nice to now be able to put faces to some of the names posted here (and on some of the other lists we belong to...) after attending SLC. What...
Susan ... Our group has been hired to put on a tourney in Garden Place, Hamilton, NZ to help publicise the film. We also get free tickets! Geoff Geoff Boxell ...
Kathleen: It was indeed a great pleasure to meet everyone and listen to everyone's stories, both written and personal, and to be part of such an eclectic,...
I have to agreed with what everyone else has been saying: the SLC conference was wonderful! I had a great time, and it was really lovely meeting people I've...
Hi Ellen, I really enjoyed this! He sounds French and rather eminent - perhaps the Comte d'Orly? Actually I was interested and surprised that he put it so well...
Richard: This reminds me of the buzz around "The Passion of the Christ" - before anyone really saw the film it was said to be antisemitic and incendiary. It...
... OK, thanks for the clarification on the "Dead Guy Rule"! :):) Yes, on my website I built an entire page entitled "Bibliography" citing, like, every single...
... film) ... I'm worried about the terrible murky, dark photography a'la Gladiator wherein it looked like there was a perpetual solar eclipse. Karen ...
I can recommend a book that in part treats the subject of the Crusades and what they did in Europe as well as in the Middle East ...It's Constantine's Sword by...