Summer lov’in…

When I’m writing a new novel, I usually try not to read any hist.fict because I have a fear of literary osmosis, but it’s so hard as I have such wonderful writers to read. Fortunately none are in my timeframe, so that’s a blessing! But I am still cautious…

Below is the pile that forms this year’s summer loves – hard copy novels for the Australian summer and not a single hist.fict in sight:

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And then there is my Kindle which has the following waiting to be read and as you can see, rather a lot of historical fiction. Hmm! Ah well, one can’t help what one loves reading…

The Touching of Stones by Louise Rule (manuscript beta read)

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Cristoval #5 and #6 by Ann Swinfen

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Praetorian #2 by SJA Turney

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The Country Escape by Fiona Walker

What a Thing to say to the Queen by Thomas Blaikie

And to add to my ever present twelfth century research pile for Guillaume, Book Two of The Triptych Chronicle,

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(my idea of what Guillaume might look like – Eion Macken as Sir Gawain in Merlin. Eye candy for Christmas!)

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on Kindle I have:

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A History of the Old Waldenses prior to The Reformation by Jean Paul Perrin

A History of the Waldenses by James A Wylie.

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These last two frustrate me as they pay very little credit if any to the so-called original Waldensian, Pierre Vaudès of Lyon. Pierre established the Poor Men of Lyon and hand-wrote a version of the Bible in a Provencal dialect for the ordinary man and which placed a new slant on the gospels as interpreted by the Church. Subsequently he and his followers were declared twelfth century heretics, hounded by the Church and were forced to flee to…

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the valleys (Waldensian Valleys) of Piedmont and the Luberon.

Thus it becomes decision-making time.

Do I use fictional licence and allow Pierre to assume his ‘desired’  (by me) place within my novel, or do I pay credit to obtruse secondary historical studies and take an alternate view.

Currently, my thoughts are that Pierre should take his ‘desired’ place…

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Bet Tobias is laughing from the wings at my dilemma!He has rather an ironic sense of humour.

(NB: those who know me know that Tobias is my current love but by the end of a summer of writing, he could well be supplanted by Guillaume. Who knows?)