Launch Off (1/4)

[marysutherland]

Harry didn't really like book launch parties, but she could hardly miss this one. But it meant dressing smartly, and behaving, and not drinking. Definitely not drinking. And though her friends would be there, there would also be people there who were...not her enemies, that was too dramatic. But the people with whom her historical disagreements had

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[et_cetera55]

I was so pleased to see this come up on my friends page - the world needs more Harry/Molly. You described Harry's nervousness brilliantly and Harry remembered at last that there were some people who didn't write books made me LOL! Bless her!

Looking forward to seeing the next part :)

[kalypso_v]

Yes! Progress! Definitely progress, even if Harry doesn't see it yet! I hope we will find out more about Phoebe Phillips.

[marysutherland]

I write the kind of stories in which it's a hopeful romantic sign that someone wants to show you round a mortuary. Says it all, really.

[fengirl88]

hurrah! very pleased to see this appear. echoing kalypso_v's wish for more on Phoebe Phillips - and hoping that Harry finds the strength she needs for this strange new rule-bound existence.

[marysutherland]

There is more on Phoebe Phillips (who may or may not have existed in real life) in part 3. But first comes part 2, featuring pictures of cute dachshunds, murder statistics and what Sherlock did on Boxing Day 2009.

[fengirl88]

cute dachshunds!

*is unreasonably excited*

looking forward to part 2...

[ginbitch]

Who wouldn't be seduced by a book about an eighteenth-century prostitute?! Harry's charms gleam all the brighter!

All my love carries over to this part!

<3

[marysutherland]

Even more historians behaving strangely coming up in the later parts. But I fear from your name and icon that you may actually know something about the eighteenth century, whereas I'm just borrowing it, and not even looking after it very carefully. So my apologies if I make some howlers, because it's not really my millennium.

[ginbitch]

Fear not! For me, there is always room for the fictional 18th century alongside the factual - although if you want fact provision or crosschecking, I'm more than happy to oblige to the best of my ability! I do also do a lot of betaing if you're interested.

And honestly, I'm just delighted to see the 18th C get some attention! We so often fall in the gaps between the early modern and the modern in syllabuses, causing a comparative dearth of interest. I work on women and polite people ask me if I mean the Brontes. Besides, I am even more delighted to see the universal quirks of historians immortalised so exactly! Oh, the pleasures of unexpected recognition...

In short, my love for this series will far outstrip any such trifles! It's wonderful!

<3

[marysutherland]

So the urge of eighteenth century historians to annex bits of other people's centuries is simply a desperate cry for attention, is it? (Mind you, I know late medievalists who talk of rebranding themselves as 'really early modernists').

Thanks for the offer of fact-checking etc - I think I'm OK for this fic, since I want to get the remaining parts up before Christmas (they're typed up, I just have to double-check them). But I have some C18 library crack that I might need some advice on if I ever get round to finishing it.

[angharadd]

She'd been impressed with herself once, before she realised that having a book with her name on the spine didn't stop her being the same clueless and clumsy Harry Watson as before.

Oh Harry <3 She's never even been showed onscreen, and you made me care for her in the space of those several thousand words.