Your Top Ten Topics
Your Top Ten Gas-Lit Empire Topics
Approaching publication day, we’re counting down the top ten points of interest in the Gas-Lit Empire novels, as revealed in readers’ comments and questions. In the last episode I wrote about the 10th most commonly commented on topic: canals and boats.
The ninth most frequently referred to topic is:
Years and Dates
Several people reading the Bullet Catcher’s Daughter commented that the story took place in an alternate 19th Century. A few thought it was set in the 1970s - because of a sentence near the beginning of Chapter three:
“Then, in the Anglo-Scottish Republic’s 155th year, being equivalent to 1973 in the Kingdom of England and Southern Wales, the Grand Union Letter and Parcel Distribution Company transferred the last of its network to airship and the fleet of narrow boats was sold at auction.”
However, keen-eyed readers noted that it is actually set in an alternate 21st Century. There are more comments referencing the correct time frame after the publication of The Custodian of Marvels - in which book the date is made explicitly. (Each chapter begins with a date or time.)
This odd juxtaposition of a Victorianesque world and the present day was the idea from which I developed the Gas-Lit Empire. I was becoming increasingly aware of the 19th Century built structure of the city of Leicester and wanted to find a way of bringing it back to life - in the present day, so to speak. In order to do that, I constructed the alternate history timeline. Everything flowed from there.
At the time, I had no idea that it would lead me from my original short story into a novel, a trilogy, a second trilogy and perhaps beyond.
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Approaching publication day, we’re counting down the top ten points of interest in the Gas-Lit Empire novels, as revealed in readers’ comments and questions. In the last episode I wrote about the 10th most commonly commented on topic: canals and boats.
The ninth most frequently referred to topic is:
Years and Dates
Several people reading the Bullet Catcher’s Daughter commented that the story took place in an alternate 19th Century. A few thought it was set in the 1970s - because of a sentence near the beginning of Chapter three:
“Then, in the Anglo-Scottish Republic’s 155th year, being equivalent to 1973 in the Kingdom of England and Southern Wales, the Grand Union Letter and Parcel Distribution Company transferred the last of its network to airship and the fleet of narrow boats was sold at auction.”
However, keen-eyed readers noted that it is actually set in an alternate 21st Century. There are more comments referencing the correct time frame after the publication of The Custodian of Marvels - in which book the date is made explicitly. (Each chapter begins with a date or time.)
This odd juxtaposition of a Victorianesque world and the present day was the idea from which I developed the Gas-Lit Empire. I was becoming increasingly aware of the 19th Century built structure of the city of Leicester and wanted to find a way of bringing it back to life - in the present day, so to speak. In order to do that, I constructed the alternate history timeline. Everything flowed from there.
At the time, I had no idea that it would lead me from my original short story into a novel, a trilogy, a second trilogy and perhaps beyond.
For this article and more like it, follow the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/gaslitempire...
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