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Recent content by Alexander Rooksmoor

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    Why I Wrote... Reid in Braid

    We've had different experiences. Will say most of my experiences have been either in the North or in London. The one time I actually made a point of grabbing an English note after I had already pulled out a Scottish one the barman in the Morecambe pub told me the Scottish was fine. Overstated in...
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    Why I Wrote... Reid in Braid

    I will challenge the point about bank notes. I live in North-East Scotland and travel a couple of times per year to see family members in southern England. I have learnt to get rid of all my Scottish notes before I go anywhere south of York. My local post office in Scotland offers a service...
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    Review - The Years of Rice and Salt

    Yes, I had too. While I had no evidence for it, I felt it reflected the south/east Asian perspective which was so important for the novel. The bit which really scarred me (mentally) was the castration to produce a eunuch. I had not realised before then that it involved much more than removing...
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    Review - The Years of Rice and Salt

    I went to a small book signing one evening in Milton Keynes, something they always did very well in those years. KSR spoke to about 30 of us, reading some extracts from the book and we really had a good chat with him. I had not read any of his other books, but did target any AH and had studied...
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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    I recall a 'Jackanory' story which featured Harlequin as a character. I cannot remember much about it, but the 19th Century child in the big house who meets him asks to go away with him when he leaves near the end of the story. However, they get mixed up which way round the bedrooms are when...
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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    Yes, I read the Christie book when I was a teenager and liked the different feel to it from her standard works. The Commedia dell'arte characters are also used in 'The Affair at the Victory Ball' (1923) a short story collected in 'Poirot's Early Cases' (1974). It was very well dramatised in 1991...
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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    This was the Steve Austin I was thinking of:
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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    I have no idea who that is! I guess this is a challenge when people of my generation are scrutinised by readers let alone commentators who are operating in a very different cultural context and we are criticised when we do not know who/what they are referring to. This is yet another burden for...
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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    I would not have got that reference. While I am aware of who Captain America is as a character, I have never watched any of the movies or read any comic books of the character to know that fact. I do think these days, though, even if your reference is like Von Callay's 'Mystery Men' one, (which...
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    The Perils of Paleonomism

    In my own writing I have encountered a reverse problem, like Von Callay's one, i.e. alighting on a name which seems very suitable for the context only to realise when you (or worse someone else) reads it back that your character now sounds like a celebrity. 'Stop Line' (2017) is set in Hampshire...
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    Why I Wrote... Against the Devil's Men

    Well, Time, I can certainly recommend it. A lot of research went into it but I also feel it has an engaging adventure plot too.
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    How early a functional nuclear weapon could have been produced?

    I guess everyone is writing off this novel as being totally unfeasible:
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    The discussions of French soldiers reminded me that when the Coldstream Guards holding Château d'Hougoumont at the Battle of Waterloo, neighbouring units did throw ammunition over the wall to them as they ran low, but it was of the wrong calibre for them to use. The problem of shortage of their...
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    Sea Lion Smashwords Sale!

    I never knew we were on Smashwords. I considered self-publishing books on there in the past but gave up once I had read to page 23 of their style guide and realised how much more there was to comply with. Thank you Tom for wrestling with all that to get a couple of my books for sale on there.
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    Review of Dominion

    I often feel that when an author is so well established editors will not intervene as much as they should. Sansom was well established due to his Tudor mystery stories. Given the essay at the end he seems to have a lot of belief that he is right and his views could not be contested so I do...
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