Hello all,

I'm still madly working on the Case of the Crossdressing Earl, but the edits are finally coming through. I keep finding places, though, where I put a note to look something up later, and I haven't always found what I need.

Right now I need a poem. It can be in English or another European language that has been translated to English, and ( Read more... )

setting: Chicago, Illinois circa 1924 or 1925; the character in question was born in London, November of 1907 ( Read more... )

The era I am setting my story in is vaguely 70s and vaguely Oxbridge, and my main character is a post PHD researcher stuck in a small museum similar to the Pitt Rivers, doing grunt work and going through that awful “so what now” grey dirge that happens post education in your mid 20s.
There's a discovery of 112 letters set in a psuedo medieval land, ( Read more... )

Setting: United States, 1950-1990--the earlier, the betterPretty much what it says on the tin: What were you reading, the year you turned 10 ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone in the community will be interested in this, but if they are: a VERY exhaustive bibliography of author, poet and journalist Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) has just gone on line, covering well over a thousand books, articles, etc. and hosting a previously unpublished story. Mitchison was a very significant figure in 20th century ( Read more... )

Setting: Contemporary, a small rural Scottish town.

I've got a non-Scottish character talking to a Scottish character about Shakespeare's Macbeth and I was wondering if there is any kind of general opinion on the play. Is it considered part of the cultural identity, just a story that happens to be set in a place calling itself Scotland, or is it ( Read more... )

Two questions relating to the book A Clash of Kings, the second book  in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin ( Read more... )

I remember hearing a history professor once paraphrasing Baldassere Castiglione with the line "We must collect shards against the ruin of our civilisation." However, my google-fu is failing me as I try to find the actual quote. I think it was supposedly from "The Book of the Courtier". Though it might be that the quote was from somewhere else and ( Read more... )

I have searched "1980 English children's culture/toys/television shows" but that seems to be far too broad, and when I try to narrow it down, I get more info about adults than children's culture ( Read more... )

My work takes place in a period roughly analogous to the Napoleonic era. Magic exists and with it the ability to enhance oneself with magic. There are people with superhuman strength and there are people who use this to hop around the city like madmen. I'm looking for books  - aside from Mistborn - or short stories that describe this sort of ( Read more... )