tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233482695263937991.post5258792087794335758..comments2022-12-19T04:35:40.264-08:00Comments on Royalty Free Fiction: The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth SpellerDeborah Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594174632573628818noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233482695263937991.post-28814664571583516302014-06-01T13:56:55.991-07:002014-06-01T13:56:55.991-07:00I loved it too - I've read her other one The R...I loved it too - I've read her other one The Return of Captain John Emmett, which is another great read & highly recommended.Deborah Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006077873037462291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233482695263937991.post-1891203511426898292014-06-01T13:26:15.288-07:002014-06-01T13:26:15.288-07:00I am two thirds of the way through reading The Str...I am two thirds of the way through reading The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton and I am absolutely hooked. It is definitely one of the best books that I have read in a long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233482695263937991.post-73043481659155271782011-06-07T07:32:58.545-07:002011-06-07T07:32:58.545-07:00This was a great post about a writer's journey...This was a great post about a writer's journey.The research is one of the joys and also the banes of a writer's life! But transporting someone to another time is such a delicate process, and I know when I have read a book that has done that I mentally give the writer three cheers.The book sounds fascinating, hope it does as well as your first.Deborah Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10594174632573628818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8233482695263937991.post-71310629620823771922011-06-06T00:57:35.675-07:002011-06-06T00:57:35.675-07:00Those small details are so important to get right,...Those small details are so important to get right, aren't they - I remember being very disappointed by a detail in an otherwise wonderful book set in the twelfth century - a character sat on a hay bale. Hay bales weren't going to become a feature of the agricultural landscape for another seven hundred years. It didn't destroy my interest in the plot but it did wonder which other details the author had got wrong that I hadn't spotted.<br />But don't those details take ages to track down? I once spent half a day trying to track down exactly what sort of knife a particular character in the mid-fourteenth century would have eaten with...Alishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406189984167289987noreply@blogger.com