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Monday December 16, 2013 I decided to see if there are preteen romance novels. The category exists, and contains many books.

***Comments of comment:

Lee Gold, 12/16: "'Your Character Wouldn't Say That' Back when I took Linguistics (grad school, English), we learned the International Phonetic Alphabet and tried to use it to write down sounds.

"And one of the girls in my class of thirty or so students didn't hear a difference between 'cot' and 'caught.'"

Only one?

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Tuesday December 17, 2013 "...author of self-published bestseller WOOL Hugh Howey has written a story set in the world of Kurt Vonnegut for Amazon's Kindle Worlds fan fiction platform. Peace In Amber, inspired by the story of Billy Pilgrim and the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five, will be released on January 14. (And, in turn, Howey has licensed his own trilogy to Kindle Worlds for others to write.)"
From Publishers Lunch <lunch@publisherslunchdaily.com>

***Comments of comment:

Dermot Dobson 12/16: "In similar vein, BBC 3 part documentary 'The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England' is very interesting, and can provide much guidance for time traveller SF. You could, for instance, be accused of treason for not eating fish frequently enough (fishing fleet needed support to provide a pool of sailors for the navy). The series (on YouTube, I see) is based on a book: http://www.timetravellersguides.com/.../elizabethan.html
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
www.timetravellersguides.com
We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a..."

Thanks. Looks like a useful website and a useful book.

fjm 12/17: "I used to get very confused re the name of one of the Walton girls. For years I thought it was Aaron."

spiralflames 12/16-12/17: "i just hate lack of research. reading a novel that jumps back to the 12th century. she has her character say she'd like to 'waltz right by...'

"waltz. invented in the late 1700s...sigh..."

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