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Why Should Historical Characters Sound Like They’re Speaking Funny In Historical Novels?

This article first appeared on my blog a long, long time ago.  It’s still relevant, so I’ve updated it, with clean links, for the many new blog readers who missed it the first time around — t. ______________ I was culling some reviews the other day and came across an old one for one of […]

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American, British, Australian or Canadian, Eh?

I’ve made a standing joke out of the fact that I don’t speak anything but English, but that I’m fluent in Australian, British, Canadian and American. It really isn’t a joke.  As an author of genre fiction, I learned very early on – with my first manuscript, in fact – that I was expected to

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