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Davide Mana on Successful Historical Fiction
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Author: Davide Mana
Paleontologist. By day, researcher, teacher and ecological statistics guru. By night, pulp fantasy author-publisher, translator and blogger. In the spare time, Orientalist Anonymous, guerilla cook.
5 April 2017 at 16:38
Nice interview, I agree with many of your points.
A good historical novel should deliver the interesting story of some interesting characters (well, just like any other form of fiction), but should also take care to provide a convincing representation of what is, effectively, a different world, that works in a different way of our own, where the driving principles and sensibilities are not the present ones. Otherwise, it is not historical fiction, but fiction with different clothes 😉
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5 April 2017 at 17:26
Exactly!
The dread “French Maid Syndrome” 😀
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