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Hi Kate. You will enjoy this group. Just don't pay too much attention to Jim and Will. They argue all the time.
Welcome, Kate. That you're trying online means you're not a Luddite. Good luck. Great place & group.
Welcome! As a historian, a novelist, and someone who used to live in Rome, I'm always interested in good historical fiction based there. Would you care to tell us more about it.PS: If it's based in Rome, Georgia, I'm still interested but not in the same way. :-)
"Mistress of Rome" is a historical fiction in first century Rome, based around the life of Emperor Domitian. One of less well-known despots out there, and a very interesting man. He held mass treason trials, hosted all-black dinner parties, could spear flies out of the air on the point of his pen, eloped with a married woman, slept with his niece, and wrote a treatise on hair care. Lots of material there for a novel, and I had fun with it!
Kate wrote: ""Mistress of Rome" is a historical fiction in first century Rome, based around the life of Emperor Domitian. One of less well-known despots out there, and a very interesting man. He held mass tre..."When will it be added to goodreads? Sounds like something I'd like to read!
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Well, it's not coming out until April 2010. But when it does, I'll definitely be putting it up on Goodreads! At some point I might post the first chapter or two, just to see what people think.
Welcome,
I didn't realize they made casseroles in San Diego.
I didn't realize they made casseroles in San Diego.
Well, I hate casseroles. That's why I didn't like book groups, because I was expected to bring them. This is much better!
Please go easy on casseroles! I'm from Iowa, traditional homeland of the casserole.
Then I bow to an expert. And I'm glad you don't have to taste any of mine . . .
Black tie in Rome, Geogia, in the first century? I must hear more! Don't mind me; I'm notoreous for trying to be funny.
Welcome, oh, and about that casserole; you failed to read the fine print in the Goodreads agreement, apparently.
Think black togas and black food in a room with black walls, presided over by a guy who might decide to kill you before before the (black) dessert. I wonder if you can make a black casserole? I think I've made a few by accident.
Sounds like how I entertain. Congratulations on becoming published. It's quite a thrill. I won't scare you off with stories of publicity tours and book signing events...yet; I'll save that for later.
I've heard book tours can be gruesome. This is still new enough to me, however, that I would just be delighted to GET a book tour in the first place. We shall see.
I may have overstated the horror; it's fun, you meet nice people, who ask questions you'd never considered. One of my best book signing events was in a little mountain town I had only accepted to be polite. The people were so very nice and bought lots of books; we ate cookies and drank tea as we chatted and got to know each other. I still return there once each season to see them.
You're going to have so much fun; I'm jealous.
That's if I get a book tour. Fingers crossed.
My name is Kate, and I'm a newbie both to this group and to Goodreads in general. My first novel, titled Mistress of Rome, is scheduled for publication in April 2010 (pause while I jump around in excitement; being a published author is still both wonderfully exciting and deeply startling).
I'm a Luddite who has rarely joined a chatroom or posted online in my life, but my agent turned me on to Goodreads and I've been both thrilled and surprised to see so many intelligent people conversing passionately about books. A book club where I don't have to bring a casserole? Sign me up.
Historical fiction is my passion, both reading it and writing it. My favorite historical periods are ancient Rome, the Hundred Years War, and Victorian England. Bernard Cornwell and Judith Merkle Riley are my heroes. I look forward to getting to know you all!